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navigation, search Siege of Tyana Part of the Arab–Byzantine
Wars Arab-Byzantine frontier zone.svg Map of the Arab-Byzantine
frontier zone Location Tyana, southeastern Cappadocia Result
Umayyad victory Simple Labarum2.svg Byzantine Empire Umayyad
Flag.svg Umayyad Dynasty Commanders and leaders Theophylact
Salibas Theodore Karteroukas Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik al-Abbas
ibn al-Walid  A Siege of Tyana was carried out by the Umayyad
Caliphate in 707–708/708–709 in retaliation for a heavy defeat
of an Umayyad army under Maimun the Mardaite by the Byzantine
Empire in ca. 706. The Arab army invaded Byzantine territory and
laid siege to the city in summer 707 or 708. In fact virtually
each of the extant Greek, Arabic and Syriac parallel sources has
in this respect a different date. Tyana initially withstood the
siege with success, and the Arab army faced great hardship
during the ensuing winter. Emperor Justinian II sent a relief
army in the next spring, b