{"slug": "isauria", "label": "Isauria", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isauria", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q914218", "qid": "Q914218", "description": "historical region of Asia Minor", "entries": 15, "years": 15, "span": [-77, 709], "span_label": ["78 BCE", "709 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 11}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "zeno-emperor", "label": "Zeno (emperor)", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pamphylia", "label": "Pamphylia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ostrogoths", "label": "Ostrogoths", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "totila", "label": "Totila", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gothic-war-535554", "label": "Gothic War (535–554)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "leo-i-emperor", "label": "Leo I (emperor)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "augustus-honorific", "label": "Augustus (honorific)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "eastern-roman-empire", "label": "Eastern Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "diocese-of-egypt", "label": "Diocese of Egypt", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -77, "year_label": "78 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Senate sends Publius Servilius Vatia to Cilicia as governor, where he fights a successful campaign against the Piracy in southern Anatolia (Lycia, Pamphylia and Isauria), he is thereafter known by the agnomen Isauricus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209581221#Roman_Republic", "title": "78 BC", "revid": 1209581221, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 6, "year_label": "6 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "AD 6 – Marcus Plautius Silvanus is made governor of Galatia and Pamphylia and suppresses an uprising of the Isaurians in Pamphylia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365712040#Roman_Empire", "title": "0s", "revid": 1365712040, "section": "Events › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 278, "year_label": "278 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Piracy along the coast of Lycia et Pamphylia: The Romans besiege the city of Cremna (Pisidia) and kill the Isaurian robber Lydius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267075888#Roman_Empire", "title": "278", "revid": 1267075888, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 460, "year_label": "460 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Leo I founds the Excubitors (imperial guard) at Constantinople; this elite tagmatic unit (300 men) is recruited from among the warlike Isaurians (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598361#Roman_Empire", "title": "460", "revid": 1360598361, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 466, "year_label": "466 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Tarasicodissa, an Isaurian officer, comes with evidence that Ardabur (magister militum) is forming a conspiracy against Leo I. Ardabur is arrested for treason.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739705#Roman_Empire", "title": "466", "revid": 1364739705, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 475, "year_label": "475 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 9", "text": "January 9 – Emperor Zeno abdicates under pressure, as his wife's uncle Basiliscus stages a coup d'état at Constantinople, with support from Zeno's trusted adviser and fellow Isaurian Illus. Basiliscus usurps the throne and is proclaimed new emperor (Augustus) of the Eastern Roman Empire. He begins a 20-month reign; Zeno and his supporters flee to Isauria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360137651#Roman_Empire", "title": "475", "revid": 1360137651, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 478, "year_label": "478 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Verina, mother-in-law of Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno, attempts to kill Isaurian general Illus for turning against her brother Basiliscus. A major revolt is led by her son-in-law Marcian and the Ostrogoth warlord Theodoric Strabo, but Illus again proves his loyalty to Zeno by quashing the revolt in 479.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360122028#Europe", "title": "478", "revid": 1360122028, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 488, "year_label": "488 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Zeno regains power from the usurper Leontius and the Isaurian patrician Illus, who are captured and executed, ending a 4-year rebellion (see 484).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789358#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "488", "revid": 1340789358, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 491, "year_label": "491 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Anti-Isaurian riots break out in the Hippodrome at Constantinople. Longinus and several other Isaurians, including general Longinus of Cardala, are exiled to Thebaid (Egypt).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368214657#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "491", "revid": 1368214657, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 492, "year_label": "492 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Isaurian War: The Isaurians begin a revolt against Emperor Anastasius I in southern Central Anatolia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340790258#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "492", "revid": 1340790258, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 493, "year_label": "493 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Isaurian War: Claudiopolis, ancient city of Cappadocia, is besieged and captured by the Romans. The Isaurians blockade the mountain passes, but John the Hunchback (John Gibbo) wins an overwhelming victory against the rebels.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340790263#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "493", "revid": 1340790263, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 497, "year_label": "497 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Isaurian War: Anastasius I regains control of the Isauria region (Asia Minor) and has the rebel leaders executed. Anastasius I pacifies the mountain strongholds of the Isaurians, ending the revolt that they began upon his ascension to the throne 6 years ago.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364907664#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "497", "revid": 1364907664, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 537, "year_label": "537 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November", "text": "November – Belisarius brings his long-awaited reinforcements, namely 3,000 Isaurians and 1,800 cavalry embarked in Ostia, along with a supply convoy, safely to Rome. The Goths are forced to abandon the Portus Claudii.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370992976#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "537", "revid": 1370992976, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 550, "year_label": "550 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 16", "text": "January 16 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths under king Totila recapture Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340799644#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "550", "revid": 1340799644, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 709, "year_label": "709 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Arab–Byzantine War: An Umayyad army under Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik raids Isauria (modern Turkey). He is appointed military governor of Armenia and Azerbaijan, succeeding his uncle Muhammad ibn Marwan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807109#Arabian_Empire", "title": "709", "revid": 1340807109, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}]}