Garachos 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE VIII
Dates723 (taq) / 728 (ob.)
PmbZ No.1931
Variant NamesG'rh;
Djarrah
ReligionMuslim
EthnicityArab
LocationsArmenia (officeplace);
Armenia (residence);
Aran;
Armenia;
Azerbaijan
TitlesEmir, Armenia (office)
Textual SourcesChronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle);
Michael the Syrian, Chronicle, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, La chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris, 1899-1904) (chronicle);
Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle)

Garachos 1 is variously called Garachos: Theoph. AM 6220; G'rh: Chron. 1234; Djarrah: Mich. Syr. He was emir in the region of Armenia: Chron. 1234, §§163, 164. Styled Γάραχον, τὸν τῶν Ἀράβων στρατηγόν: Theoph. AM 6220. In c. 723 (late in the reign of Yezid II) he invaded the land of the Turks with Arab troops, captured five towns and withdrew with quantities of plunder: Chron. 1234, §163 (p. 309). Emir and general; he led an invasion into the land of the Turks and captured a large city and then, after pillaging the area, returned home: Mich. Syr. II 490. Around 728 he led a large army of Arabs against a Khazar army which had invaded Azerbaijan and Aran (Chron. 1234; called Media and Armenia in Theophanes) under the command of the son of the khagan of the Khazars; they met in battle and Garachos was defeated and killed: Theoph. AM 6220, Chron. 1234, §164 (pp. 309-310).

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