Radad 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 766 (taq) / 767 (tpq) |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Kaisareia (Cappadocia) |
| Textual Sources | Chronique de Denys de Tell-Mahré, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot (Paris, 1895); tr. A. Palmer, The Seventh Century in West-Syrian Chronicles (Liverpool, 1993), pp. 54-65 (chronicle) |
In the year 1078 Sel. (766/767) an Arab army under Abbas 2 invaded the lands of the Romans; part of the army under two commanders, Radad 1 and Malik ibn Tuf (Malik 5), left the main force and raided widely, encountering hardships through the harsh climate and their ignorance of the region, before eventually reaching as far as Kaisareia; they raided this area and beyond and seized much booty; on their way back, with many captives and much plunder, they were trapped in a flat area among hills by the Romans (see Anonymus 729) and their army was heavily defeated; one commander, Radad 1, escaped on horseback abandoning everything to the Romans; the other commander, Malik 5, fled with 5,000 men towards Kalikala: Pseudo-Dion., Chron., pp. 233, 29-238, 26 = pp. 183-187, cf. p. 238, 13 ff. = p. 186 for his name.
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