Leo III the Isaurian, Byzantine emperor (born 685)

Leo III the Isaurian

Byzantine emperor from 717 to 741

Leo III the Isaurian, also known as the Syrian, was the first Byzantine emperor of the Isaurian dynasty from 717 until his death in 741. He put an end to the Twenty Years' Anarchy, a period of great instability in the Byzantine Empire between 695 and 717, marked by the rapid…