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Born 912 • Cappadocia • Turkey
Died c.December 10, 969 or c.December 11, 969 • Istanbul • Turkey
Narses
Syrian theologian
Heraclius
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Byzantine emperor
Leo III
Leo III
Byzantine emperor
Belisarius
Belisarius
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Manuel I Comnenus
Manuel I Comnenus
Byzantine emperor
Maurice
Maurice
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Narses
Byzantine general
John I Tzimisces (left), effigy on a Byzantine gold coin, 969-976; in a private collection
John I Tzimisces
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John II Comnenus
John II Comnenus
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Nicephorus Bryennius
Byzantine statesman and historian
Romanus IV Diogenes
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king of Norway
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Roger de Flor
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Justinian I
Justinian I
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Michael VIII Palaeologus
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Basil II
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Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
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Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor 1081–1118, detail of an illumination from a Greek manuscript; in the Vatican Library (Cod. Vat. Gr. 666).
Alexius I Comnenus
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