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207:(February 907), on whom he had placed hopes for mediation, he resolved to flee and asked for aid from the Arabs. In mid-spring 907, an Arab force came to his aid and broke the leaguer around Kaballa. Escorted by the Arabs, Andronikos and his family crossed the border, coming first to Tarsos and finally to the
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had seized him during an attempted flight to his native lands a few years earlier. The repeated pleas of
Himerios to join him only made Andronikos more suspicious, and he firmly refused to board the former's flagship. In the event, Himerios departed with his own forces and on 6 October secured a
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family whose life is known in some detail. He was possibly the son of the first recorded Doukas, an official active circa 855, but nothing is known of his origin and early life. Andronikos first appears in the sources in 904, already a holder of the exalted title of
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major victory over the Arab fleet. At the news of this, Andronikos, fearing punishment for having disobeyed the
Emperor's commands, withdrew east with his family and dependants and seized the fortress of Kaballa, near
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warning him that
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in lamentation of his defection. Consequently, the
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