Battle of Sebastopolis

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The Battle of Sebastopolis was fought at Sebastopolis ( presumably Sebaste in Cilicia or Sulusaray ) in the year 692 between the Byzantine Empire and the Umayyad.

The Byzantines were commanded by Leontius and also included a " special army" of 30,000 Slavs under their leader Neboulos. The Byzantine defeat can be attributed to the desertion of 20,000 Slavs. A source reported that Justinian II had slaughtered the surviving Slavs, including women and children, on the Gulf of Nicomedia. Today's historians doubt this representation but.