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- Born
- 9th century
- Died
- 863
- Citizenship
- Occupation
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1 identifiers linking Karbeas across the web's reference databases
8 statements · 0% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
1 identifiers linking Karbeas across the web's reference databases
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Karbeas, also Karbaias (Καρβαίας), was a Paulician leader, who, following the anti-Paulician pogroms in 843, abandoned his service in the Byzantine army and went over to the Arabs. With the aid of the emir of Melitene, Umar al-Aqta, he founded the Paulician principality of Tephrike, which he ruled until his death in 863. During this period he participated alongside Umar in several raids against the Byzantine Empire.