On the Byzantine side, Emperor Michael III had assembled his army to counter the Arab raid, and met them at a battle in an area called Marj al-Usquf ("Bishop's Meadow") by Arab sources, a highland near Malakopeia, north of Nazianzus.
Bekarlar, recently known as Nenizi and in earlier times Nazianzus, is a village in the District of Gülağaç, Aksaray Province, Turkey.
Caesarius of Nazianzus, physician and politician of the 4th century, and the younger brother of Gregory of Nazianzus
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