Finished sometime between 640 and 724 (see below), the “Miscellaneous Chronicle up to the year 724” (that is Chronicon miscellaneous ad annum domino 724 pertinent elsewhere referred to as the Book of the Caliphs or Liber Calipharum aka Liber Chalipharum) contains a single mention of Slavs (the “blessed men” could be monks killed by the invaders):
“AG 934 [AD 623] The Slavs invaded Crete and the other islands. There some blessed men of Quenneshre [Qenneshrin] were taken captive and some twenty of them were killed.”
Typical Slav raid on Crete
The above is from the Andrew Palmer translation.
The authorship of the chronicle is unclear – perhaps its author was Thomas the Presbyter.
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