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Battle of Akroinon
The Battle of Akroinon was fought at Akroinon (also known as Acroinon or Acroinum, near modern Afyon) in Phrygia, on the western edge of the Anatolian plateau, in 739 between an Umayyad Arab army of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, led by his brother Sulayman, and Byzantine forces led by Leo III the Isaurian and his son, the future Constantine V. In a decisive victory Leo expelled the Arab forces from Asia Minor, leaving Constantine well-placed to take advantage of the collapse of the Umayyad dynasty.
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