John Phokas (Greek: Ἰωάννης Φωκᾶς, Iōánnēs Phōkâs) or Phocas (Latin: Johannes Phocas) was a 12th-century Byzantine pilgrim to the Holy Land. He wrote...

Nikephoros II Phokas (Greek: Νικηφόρος Φωκᾶς, Nikēphóros Phōkãs; c. 912 – 11 December 969), Latinized Nicephorus II Phocas, was Byzantine emperor from...

Phokas (Greek: Φωκᾶς, translit. Phōkâs) or Phocas (Latinized), feminine form Phokaina or Phocaena (Φώκαινα, Phṓkaina), was the name of a Byzantine aristocratic...

emperor Nikephoros II Phokas and the kouropalates Leo Phokas the Younger, and was also the maternal grandfather of the emperor John I Tzimiskes. Bardas...

military aristocracy by the early 10th century. His mother belonging to the Phokas family of unknown ethnicity, maybe Greek-Armenian origin. Scholars have...

eventually claimed descent from the Byzantine Phokas family, and its most famous representative, Nikephoros II Phokas. Constantine Varouchas (Βαρούχας) is mentioned...

blessed among emperors", and a century later John Stavrakios described him as "great in fine deeds". John Phokas, a soldier who fought in Manuel's army, characterised...

Bardas was a scion of the Phokas family, the most prominent Byzantine aristocratic clan in the 10th century. His father Leo Phokas the Younger was a curopalates...

Leo Phokas (Greek: Λέων Φωκᾶς, fl. 910s) was an early 10th-century Byzantine general of the noble Phokas clan. As Domestic of the Schools, the Byzantine...

John Phokas, 12th-century pilgrim and writer Phokas (Byzantine family), Byzantine nobles including: Nikephoros Phokas the Elder, general Leo Phokas the...