Othman 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Dates | 710 (taq) / 710 (tpq) |
| Variant Names | Outhman |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Cilicia |
| Textual Sources | Elias Barshinaya, Chronicle (Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni, Opus chronologicum, pars prior, ed. and tr. E. W. Brooks, CSCO 62 and CSCO 63 (1910) (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) |
Othman 2 was an Arab commander; in 710 he attacked Cilicia and secured the submission by agreement of many forts there: Theoph. AM 6203 (Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἐπεστράτευσεν Οὐθμὰν τὴν Κιλικίαν καὶ πολλὰ κάστρα ὑπὸ λόγον παρέλαβεν). In AH 91 (Nov. 709/Oct. 710) = 1021 Sel. (709/710) `Uthman ibn Walid invaded the lands of the Romans and returned victorious: Elias, Chron., p. 159, 1-6 = p. 76.
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