Photios (Greek: Φώτιος, fl. c. 872/3) was a Byzantine renegade and convert to Islam who served the Emirate of Crete as a naval commander in the 870s....
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The Emirate of Crete (Arabic: إقريطش, romanized: Iqrīṭish or إقريطية, Iqrīṭiya; Greek: Κρήτη, romanized: Krētē) was an Islamic state that existed on the...
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Diocletian (died 305) Photios (Emirate of Crete) (fl. 870s), Byzantine renegade and admiral of the Emirate of Crete Photius, Metropolitan of Moscow (died 1431)...
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Greek Muslims (category People from the Ottoman Empire of Greek descent)
appointed by Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire (reigned 1520 to 1566). Photios (Emirate of Crete) – Photios (Greek: Φώτιος, fl. ca. 872/3) was...
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renegade called Photios, "a warlike and energetic fellow", on a major raiding expedition against the Byzantine Empire. The fleet led by Photios comprised over...
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Abu Abdallah Umar ibn Shu'ayb (redirect from Umar II of Crete)
was the third Emir of Crete, ruling c. 880–895. The surviving records on the internal history and rulers of the Emirate of Crete are very fragmentary...
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droungarios of the Fleet, Niketas Ooryphas, at the Battle of Kardia (c. 872/3). Photios with the remnants of his fleet survived to return to Crete, and some...
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schism Photice Photinus of Thessalonica Photios I the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople Photios (Emirate of Crete) Phoulkon Phoulloi Phrygia Phthiotic Thebes...
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Shu'ayb ibn Umar (category Emirs of Crete)
was the second Emir of Crete, ruling c. 855 – c. 880. The surviving records on the internal history and rulers of the Emirate of Crete are very fragmentary...
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Sergios Niketiates (category Year of birth unknown)
the brother of the later Patriarch Photios, a conjecture also rejected, although according to Cyril Mango he could possibly be Photios's maternal uncle...
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