Nikaias 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE VIII
Dates716 (taq) / 716 (tpq)
PmbZ No.5249
LocationsAmorion (Galatia);
Anatolikoi;
Anatolikoi (officeplace)
TitlesTourmarches, Anatolikoi (office)
Textual SourcesAnastasius Bibliothecarius, Chronographia Tripartita (Latin translation of the Chronographia of Theophanes), ed. C. de Boor, Theophanes, Chronographia II (Leipzig, 1885), pp. 31-346 (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)

A tourmarches (Νικαίαν τὸν τουρμάρχην), Nikaias 1 was sent to garrison Amorion in 716 by Leo III (Leo 3) after the army of Sulayman 1 dispersed from the city; he had either eight hundred troops under him (according to the Latin translation of Anastasius Bibliothecarius: "cum octingentis militibus"; and the first mention in Theophanes - Νικαίαν τὸν τουρμάρχην μετὰ ω' στρατιωτῶν) or one thousand (according to a later passage in Theophanes - καὶ χίλιοι ταξάτοι σὺν τῷ τουρμάρχῃ): Theoph. AM 6208. Leo 3 was at the time strategos of the Anatolikoi; Nikaias 1 was presumably therefore one of the tourmarchai of the Anatolikoi.

(Publishable link for this person: )