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Artabasdos or Artavasdos ( or , from , , , Latinized as Artabasdus) was a Byzantine general of Armenian descent who seized the throne from June 741 until November 743, in usurpation of the reign of Constantine V.

tenth Umayyad caliph

Father of the two first 'Abbâsid caliphs (c.680–743)

8th-century Italian duke

son of Zayd ibn Ali

8th century Spanish Visigothic ruler

Umayyad politician

Wihtburh (also Withburga or Withburge; died 743) was an East Anglian saint and abbess. She was renowned for founding and governing a convent at Dereham in Norfolk. The Dereham convent no longer exists except for St Nicholas Church.

Bishop of Orleans

High King of Ireland

Iraqi poet

chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang