. "Chrysocheir"@en . . . . "Bathys Ryax"@en . "Battle of Bathys Ryax"@en . . . "Extremely heavy"@en . . . . . . . "Battle of Bathys Ryax"@en . "Light"@en . "Decisive Byzantine victory"@en . "The Battle of Bathys Ryax was fought in 872 or 878 between the Byzantine Empire and the Paulicians. The Paulicians were a Christian sect which\u2014persecuted by the Byzantine state\u2014had established a separate principality at Tephrike on Byzantium's eastern border and collaborated with the Muslim emirates of the Thughur, the Abbasid Caliphate's borderlands, against the Empire. The battle was a decisive Byzantine victory, resulting in the rout of the Paulician army and the death of its leader, Chrysocheir. This event destroyed the power of the Paulician state and removed a major threat to Byzantium, heralding the fall of Tephrike itself and the annexation of the Paulician principality shortly after."@en . . . . . . . . "Map of Byzantine Asia Minor and the Byzantine-Arab frontier region in the middle of the 9th century"@en . "872"^^ . . "The Battle of Bathys Ryax was fought in 872 or 878 between the Byzantine Empire and the Paulicians. The Paulicians were a Christian sect which\u2014persecuted by the Byzantine state\u2014had established a separate principality at Tephrike on Byzantium's eastern border and collaborated with the Muslim emirates of the Thughur, the Abbasid Caliphate's borderlands, against the Empire. The battle was a decisive Byzantine victory, resulting in the rout of the Paulician army and the death of its leader, Chrysocheir. This event destroyed the power of the Paulician state and removed a major threat to Byzantium, heralding the fall of Tephrike itself and the annexation of the Paulician principality shortly after."@en . . . . "the Byzantine\u2013Paulician wars"@en . .