Revolt in Byzantine Sicily (717)

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Was a revolt in Sicily, at the time part of the Byzantine Empire.

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January 718: The patrikios Sergios was strategos of Sicily in 717, when false news reached the island that Constantinople had fallen to the Umayyads. He then proclaimed one of his aides, Basil Onomagoulos, as emperor. Emperor Leo III quickly sent a new strategos to the island to suppress the inadvertent revolt.