Amr 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Dates | 727 (taq) / 727 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 225 |
| Variant Names | Ameros; Amer |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Nikaia; Anatolikoi |
| Titles | Emir (office) |
| Textual Sources | Nicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (history); Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Amr 1 is the Arabic name `Amr. In summer 727 two Arab emirs Amr 1 and Mu`awiya 4 (δύο ἀμηραίων: Theoph. AM 6218) led Arab forces into Anatolia and besieged Nikaia: Theoph. AM 6218, cf. Nic. Brev. de Boor 58, Mango 61:3-4 (ὧν ἡγοῦντο Ἄμερος καὶ Μαυίας ὀνομαζόμενοι Σαρακηνοί). Amr 1 arrived first with fifteen thousand lightly armed troops and surrounded the city, which was unprepared; he was later joined by Mu`awiya 4 with another eighty-five thousand; in spite of a long siege they failed to capture the city, and finally withdrew taking with them a large number of prisoners and much booty: Theoph. AM 6218. The capture of Nikaia is recorded in Michael the Syrian under the year 1042 Sel. (AD 730/731) and in Chron. 1234 under the year 1040 Sel. (AD 728/729).
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