A tax collector dragged from provincial obscurity by mutinous troops who needed a face for their revolt. He wore the purple for twenty-two months while generals circled, denied him, and finally pried the throne loose without bloodshed.
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Theodosius collected taxes in Adramyttium until May 715, when the Byzantine navy and soldiers of the Opsician Theme revolted against Anastasius II and proclaimed him emperor against his will. He marched to Constantinople and took the capital in November; Anastasius held out for months before accepting exile to a monastery. The Anatolics and Armeniacs refused to recognize him, viewing him as a puppet, and their general Leo the Isaurian declared himself emperor in summer 716, allying with the Umayyad Caliphate. Theodosius turned to the Bulgarians under Khan Tervel, ceding the Zagoria region and agreeing to tribute in exchange for setting a border at Thrace. Leo seized Nicomedia and captured Theodosius's son; advised by Patriarch Germanus and the Senate, Theodosius negotiated his abdication. Leo entered Constantinople on 25 March 717, and Theodosius retired to a monastery with his son, possibly dying there on 24 July 754.
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