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    Nikephoros I or Nicephorus I (Greek: Νικηφόρος; c. 758 – 5 April 828) was a Byzantine writer and patriarch of Constantinople from 12 April 806 to 13 March...
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    the help of the citizens of Constantinople. As emperor, Nikephoros faced numerous revolts, including those of Nikephoros Bryennios, Nikephoros Basilakes...
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  • Nikephoros I or Nicephorus I may refer to: Nikephoros I Logothetes (ca. 760–811), Byzantine emperor in 802-811 Nikephoros I of Constantinople (ca. 750–828)...
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  • Nikephoros Bryennios (or Nicephorus Bryennius; Greek: Νικηφόρος Βρυέννιος, Nikēphoros Bryennios; 1062/82–1137) was a Byzantine general, statesman and...
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    later Stichometry of Nicephorus appended to the ninth-century Chronography of Nikephoros I of Constantinople. Some early Fathers of the Church ascribed...
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    Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos (Greek: Νικηφόρος Κάλλιστος Ξανθόπουλος; Latinized as Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus; c. 1256 – 1335) was a Greek ecclesiastical...
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  • Socrates of Constantinople (c. 380 – after 439), also known as Socrates Scholasticus (Greek: Σωκράτης ὁ Σχολαστικός), was a 5th-century Greek Christian...
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    Emperor Basil I renovated and probably enlarged the church, and in 874 the remains of the historian and patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople, who had died...
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    to Nikephoros I of Constantinople a son of Kubrat of the Dulo clan of Bulgars. Following the death of his father, he began to extend the influence of his...
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  • Nicephorus of Constantinople may refer to: Nikephoros I of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 806–815 Nicephorus II of Constantinople, Ecumenical...
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    the Battle of Pliska on 26 July 811, wherein much of the Byzantine army was destroyed, and Nikephoros was slain. Carried back to Constantinople by litter...
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  • 284 to 813 Chronographikon syntomon of Nikephoros I of Constantinople (died 828) Chronographia tripartita of Anastasius Bibliothecarius, written in 807–874...
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    account of the Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor (760–817) and secondarily the brief account in the Breviarium of Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople...
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  • John Pitzigaudes (category Byzantine people of the Arab–Byzantine wars)
    the later chroniclers Symeon Logothetes, Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople, Theodosius of Melitene, George Monachos, Kedrenos, Zonaras, and in...
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  • and Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople as a common source for their own chronicles. Cyril Mango / Roger Scott (ed.), The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor...
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    and "uneducated". On 14 March 815, Leo forced the resignation of Patriarch Nikephoros I, and appointed the pro-iconoclast Theodotos Melissenos in his...
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    of Constantinople (also Saint Tarasios and Saint Tarasius; Greek: Ταράσιος; c. 730 – 25 February 806) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from...
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    son of the patrician Theophylact Rhangabe, the admiral of the Aegean fleet. He married Prokopia, the daughter of the former Emperor Nikephoros I, and...
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    patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople (died 829) the Byzantine annals of John Malalas, a Greek chronicler, who in 563 produced an 18+book work of myth and...
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  • chronologies of Theophanes the Confessor and Ecumenical Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople. A reference in De Administrando Imperio by Constantine VII...
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    appointed commander of the field army in the West by Nikephoros III. In this capacity, Alexios defeated the rebellions of Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder...
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    Golden 2011, p. 143. Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople, Historia syntomos, breviarium Zimonyi Istvan: "History of the Turkic speaking peoples in...
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  • Stephen the Persian (category Byzantine people of Iranian descent)
    construction projects of Justinian II, including at the Great Palace of Constantinople. Later Byzantine writers (Nikephoros I of Constantinople and Theophanes...
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    Michael Psellos (category Instances of Lang-el using second unnamed parameter)
    Plato’s Teachings on the Origin of the Soul, and the Chronographia, a series of biographies from emperor Basil II to Nikephoros III, which serves as a valuable...
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    Simon the Zealot (category Year of birth unknown)
    and Hippolytus of Rome, Simon's first arrival in Britain was in the year A.D. 44, during the Roman conquest. Nikephoros I of Constantinople writes: Simon...
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  • magister) by patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople r. 806–815, and Sebeos, who mistook him for a brother of John Athalaricos and a son of Heraclius, affirms...
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    According to the Chronographikon syntomon of Ecumenical Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople, the cause of death was epilepsy. According to Theophanes...
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    The first Arab siege of Constantinople in 674–678 was a major conflict of the Arab–Byzantine wars, and the first culmination of the Umayyad Caliphate's...
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  • George Syncellus (category Year of birth unknown)
    favourable to Nikephoros, "a tactless tribute if Theophanes was known to hold Nikephoros in such deep detestation." Mango and Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes...
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    under the command of his maternal uncle Nikephoros Phokas. The latter is also considered his instructor in the art of war. Partly because of his familial connections...
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