Paulos 9

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VIII
Dates759 (taq) / 759 (ob.)
PmbZ No.5828
LocationsMelas (River) (deathplace);
Melas (River);
Armeniakoi;
Armeniakoi (officeplace)
TitlesStrategos, Armeniakoi (office)
Textual SourcesTheophanes 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)

In 759 Paulos 9 was strategos of the Armeniakoi (Παῦλον τὸν στρατηγὸν τῶν Ἀρμενιάκων); he was defeated and killed by the Arabs with heavy losses in a battle at the river Melas: Theoph. AM 6251.

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