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| - 700-701 A new failed anti-Omayyad revolt at Kufa (Iraq). 701 New anti-Caliphal rebellion in Basra led by al-Ash'ath. When hearing news that Leontius wants to eliminate him, the exiled and mutilated Belisarius IV the Rhinotmetus (the slit-nose) escapes from his exile in Cherson/Sebastopol, finding hospitality among the Khazars, who attack and conquer Cherson. The Duke of Turin Regimpert and his son Aribert rebel against king Anfus of Lombard Neustria. The Franks, supporting the rebels, invade northern Italy and win the battle of Novara, after which Aribert II is enthroned in Pavia (his father died in the battle); king Anfus flees to Lombard Austrasia, where his cousin Gisulf I reigns.
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| - 700-701 A new failed anti-Omayyad revolt at Kufa (Iraq). 701 New anti-Caliphal rebellion in Basra led by al-Ash'ath. When hearing news that Leontius wants to eliminate him, the exiled and mutilated Belisarius IV the Rhinotmetus (the slit-nose) escapes from his exile in Cherson/Sebastopol, finding hospitality among the Khazars, who attack and conquer Cherson. The Duke of Turin Regimpert and his son Aribert rebel against king Anfus of Lombard Neustria. The Franks, supporting the rebels, invade northern Italy and win the battle of Novara, after which Aribert II is enthroned in Pavia (his father died in the battle); king Anfus flees to Lombard Austrasia, where his cousin Gisulf I reigns. 702 The Spoletan Lombards occupy Tuscany, enlarging their domains to most of central Italy. 705 Belisarius IV, escaped from Khazaria when his brother-in-law, Khan Busir Glavan, tried to hand him over to Byzantine agents to appease Leontius, finds new friends in the Bulgarians; but when they try to help him reenter Constantinople, Leontius quickly reacts, crushing them at Adrianople and killing Belisarius on the spot. 706 The Khmer kingdom of Chenla splits into a northern (between Laos and Siam) and southern (Cambodia and Mekong delta) half. 707 Basileus Leontius leads a naval expedition to Africa: Tripoli is sacked, in the island of Djirva (*OTL Djerba), an obnoxious nest of Arab piracy, all Muslims are slain and replaced by Idalskan Slavs, Cibyrrheotes (a people from SW Anatolia) and Mardaites (Lebanese Christians), who also are sent to repopulate devastated Ifrigia (*OTL Tunisia). 708 The Byzantine attempt to chase the Bulgarians beyond the Danube is frustrated by their defeat at Ankialos. Leontius rebuilds Carthage. 709 The Arabs conquer Bokhara and Samarkand in Central Asia and invade Anatolia, defeating the Byzantines at Tiana; in Ifrigia, instead, they are trounced by Leontius at Matmata. After long pressure by Leontius, Pope Constantine bestows on the Archbishopric of Carthage the title of Primate of Africa. In Visigothic Spain King Witiza is slain whn he tries to pass the crown to his son; the (mostly) elective character of the Visigothic Crown of Spain is confirmed. 710 The Arabs destroy the Ethiopian port of Adulis/Zula: the decaying Axumite empire, ridden with internecine strife, cannot counter Muslim encroachments along the coast. Nara is set as the new capital of Japan. King Gerontius of Dumnonia/Devon defeats the Wessex Saxons at Exeter. The legitimate T’ang dynasty is restored in China with Ruizong/Li Dan. Khapgham, Khagan of the Eastern Gökturks, subdues Kirghizes and Qarluqs, then invades Transoxiana (Central Asia) establishing contact with the Omayyad Arabs. ca. 710 The Norwegian kingdom of Vestfold vassalizes Vendeyssel (the northern “tip” of Jutland) 710-711 Sergius, Leontius’ eldest son, hurries back in Constantinople to fight back the Arab invasion of Anatolia, but after early successes his forces are routed at Samosata; on the way back to the capital a high officer, Smaragdus, rebels and kills Sergius, entering Constaninople as the new emperor 710-718 Great rebellion staged by Uygurs, Qarluqs and Western Gökturks from Mongolia to Turkestan, crushed in the end by the Eastern Gökturks
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