Kusan 1 was an Armenian, a native of Armenia Quarta: Pseudo-Dion., Chron., p. 208, 9ff. = p. 162.

After Marwan 2 was driven out (a. 750), Kusan 1 took all his possessions and his people and went to the land of the Romans, where, because he had a reputation for bravery he was given a military command by the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7); in the year 1065 Sel. (753/754) he took a large army and attacked the district around Mt Sahya, carrying away plunder and captives and leaving the area devastated; then in the year 1066 (754/755) he led a large army composed of Romans and Urtayans against the country of Hanzit (Anzitene); he was opposed by Persian and Arab troops assembled by Akai 1 and led by the son of Akai (Ibn Akai, i.e. Khalid 3), but Ibn Akai (Khalid 3) was headstrong and ignored the advice of his experienced officers to be cautious, since Kusan 1 was both experienced and familiar with the terrain, of which he was a native; Kusan 1 inflicted on his opponents a heavy defeat from which few escaped: Pseudo-Dion., Chron., pp. 208, 9 - 209, 24 = pp. 162ff. On the events involving Kusan 1, see Rochow, Theophanes, pp. 172, 174.

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