Basil Ouranos, possibly an elder relative, is attested, and we know from Nikephoros's letters that he had a brother named Michael. Nikephoros Ouranos himself...
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20 in). Its use is attested by emperor Nikephoros Phokas in his treatise Praecepta Militaria, and by Nikephoros Ouranos and Leo VI the Wise in their Taktika...
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account for the early 11th-century situation in the later Tactica of Nikephoros Ouranos. Chapter I - On the Infantry Chapter II - On the Heavy Infantry Chapter...
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Spercheios river, led by the Domestic of the West, Nikephoros Ouranos. Basil II had appointed Ouranos commander of all Balkan and Greek territories of the...
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Peloponnese. On his return, he was met by a Byzantine army under Nikephoros Ouranos at Spercheios. As the river was flooded, both sides encamped on opposite...
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Nicephorus (redirect from Nikephoros (disambiguation))
commander and governor Nikephoros Melissenos (c. 1045–1104), Byzantine general, self-proclaimed emperor and Caesar Nikephoros Ouranos, Byzantine general,...
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emperor Leo VI the Wise the Tactica of Nikephoros Ouranos, written in the early 11th century by Nikephoros Ouranos, a Byzantine general The treatises on...
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attraction along the former U.S. Route 66 in Missouri Nicephorus Uranus or Nikephoros Ouranos, Byzantine strategos of Antiocheia from 999 to c. 1010 Wikimedia Commons...
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spite of his promise of safe conduct. This provoked Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I to settle Anatolian populations along the frontier to protect it and...
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territory as far as central Greece. In 996, the Byzantine general Nikephoros Ouranos defeated a Bulgarian army raid at the Battle of Spercheios in Thessaly...
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