Leo has secured the Empire's frontiers by inviting Slavic settlers into the depopulated districts and by restoring the army to efficiency.

Akroinon is a major success for the imperial forces, as it is the first large-scale victory they have scored in a pitched battle against the Arabs.

Seeing it as evidence of God's renewed favor, the victory also serves to strengthen Leo's belief in the policy of iconoclasm that he had adopted some years before.

His military efforts are supplemented by his alliances with the Khazars and the Georgians.

Leo's victory has freed Asia Minor from any immediate serious threat of Arab conquest, and it will make possible the forceful counteroffensive and reconquest of some lost territory in the subsequent reign of his son, Constantine V.