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    Romanos IV Diogenes (Greek: Ῥωμανός Διογένης, romanized: Rōmanos Diogenēs; c. 1030 – c. 1072) was a Byzantine general and Akritai commander who, after...
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  • Constantine Diogenes (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Διογένης; died 1073) was one of the sons of Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes (reigned 1068–1071). He was...
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    decisive defeat of the Byzantine army and the capture of the Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes played an important role in undermining Byzantine authority in Anatolia...
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    1059–1067), his brother John Doukas, katepano and later Caesar, Romanos IV Diogenes (r. 1068–1071), Constantine's son Michael VII Doukas (r. 1071–1078)...
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    and Romanos IV Diogenes. She acted as regent of her minor son, Michael VII in 1067, and resigned her regency by marriage to Romanos IV Diogenes. When...
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  • I Komnenos. Of lowly origin, he pretended to be a son of Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes. Exiled to Cherson, he escaped and took refuge among the Cumans....
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  • He was the father of Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes. Constantine Diogenes is the first notable member of the noble Diogenes family with origins from Cappadocia...
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  • Leo Diogenes (Greek: Λέων Διογένης, Leōn Diogenes, 1069 – 14 August 1087), styled as porphyrogenitus, was the son of Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes...
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  • Constantine Diogenes Constantine Diogenes (son of Romanos IV) (died 1073) Nikephoros Diogenes (11th century), Byzantine general, son of Romanos IV "Diogenes" is...
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    and 11th century. Romanos IV Diogenes was, by marriage to Eudokia Makrembolitissa, Byzantine Emperor between 1068 and 1071. Diogenes led the Byzantine...
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  • Byzantine emperor around 1069–1071. He was born c. 1069 to Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes and Empress Eudokia Makrembolitissa. He was elevated to junior emperor...
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  • Menekşeler" based on the life of "Kabadayı Mehmet". He portrayed Romanos IV Diogenes in Alparslan: Büyük Selçuklu. Also, he played in hit youth series...
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    considered taking Nikephoros as husband and emperor but instead chose Romanos IV Diogenes. The need for an immediate successor was made pressing by the constant...
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    married Constantine Diogenes, protospatharios, katepano, doux, died 1032; they were the parents of: Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes, died 1072; he married...
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    Syria in 1068, Alp Arslan invaded the Byzantine Empire. The Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes, assuming command in person, met the invaders in Cilicia. In three...
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  • commander of a section of the Byzantine army in the campaign of Romanos IV Diogenes against the Seljuk Turks of Alp Arslan. Commanding the rearguard...
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    married to Romanos Argyros. They took the throne the next day on her father's death. The marriage of Zoe and Romanos III was troubled, and Romanos was found...
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  • Byzantine emperor from 1028 to 1034 Romanos IV Diogenes (c. 1030 – 1072), Byzantine emperor who reigned from 1068 to 1071 Romanos Kourkouas, Byzantine aristocrat...
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    accountant in the governor's office. Maximinus was the commander of the Legio IV Italica when Severus Alexander was assassinated by his own troops in 235....
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    exile under the Byzantine Empire. The most notable exile was Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes, who remained in the Monastery of the Transfiguration on Hristo Peak...
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    1067. Alexios and his elder brother, Manuel Komnenos served under Romanos IV Diogenes (r. 1068–1071) with distinction against the Seljuk Turks. under Michael VII...
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    allegedly murdered, and was succeeded by his wife's young lover, Michael IV. Romanos Argyros, born in 968, was probably the son of Mariano, a member of the...
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    general Romanos IV Diogenes, who now became senior co-emperor alongside Michael VII, Konstantios, and another brother, Andronikos. When Romanos IV was defeated...
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    affair. It is believed that they conspired to murder her husband, Emperor Romanos III Argyros, who died in 1034. Michael and Zoë were married the same day...
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    panel was assumed to be depicting the coronation and/or marriage of Romanos IV Diogenes and Eudokia Makrembolitissa, mainly due to the inscription over Eudokia’s...
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    Eudokia ruled as de facto ruler until 1 January 1068, when she married Romanos IV Diogenes and crowned him emperor. By his first wife, a daughter of Constantine...
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    Constantine IV (Latin: Constantinus; Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος, translit. Kōnstantînos; c. 650 – 10 July 685), called the Younger (Latin: iunior; Greek: ὁ νέος...
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    and Cultural Development from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries, Vol. IV, M. A. Al-Bakhit, L. Bazin, S. M. Cissoko and M. S. Asimov, Editors, UNESCO...
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  • beheaded by Alparslan. (deceased). Sarp Levendoğlu as General/Kaiser Romanos IV Diogenes. Gizem Karaca (season 1) / Hande Subaşı (season 2) as Eudokia Makrembolitissa...
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    Romanos II (Greek: Ῥωμανός, romanized: Rōmanos; 938 – 15 March 963) was Byzantine Emperor from 959 to 963. He succeeded his father Constantine VII at the...
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