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John I Tzimiskes, the Glossary

John I Tzimiskes (925 – 10 January 976) was the senior Byzantine emperor from 969 to 976.^[1]

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10th-century Byzantine emperors
920s births
960s in the Byzantine Empire
970s in the Byzantine Empire
976 deaths
Armenian Byzantine emperors
Burials in Constantinople
Domestics of the Schools
Governors of the Anatolic Theme
Kourkouas family
Macedonian dynasty

Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Aleppo

Aleppo (ﺣَﻠَﺐ, ALA-LC) is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous governorate of Syria.

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Anatolia

Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.

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Armenians

Armenians (hayer) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.

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Arslan Hane, Istanbul

Arslan Hane (Turkish for Lion's shelter; also Arslanhane) was a Byzantine Eastern Orthodox church converted into a profane building by the Ottomans in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Assassination

Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important.

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Çemişgezek

Çemişgezek (Melkişî; translit) is a municipality (belde) and seat of Çemişgezek District of Tunceli Province, Turkey.

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Baalbek

Baalbek (Baʿlabakk; Syriac-Aramaic: ܒܥܠܒܟ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about northeast of Beirut.

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Bardas Phokas (or Phocas) (Βάρδας Φωκᾶς) (–13 April 989) was an eminent Byzantine general who took a conspicuous part in three revolts for and against the ruling Macedonian dynasty. John I Tzimiskes and Bardas Phokas the Younger are Domestics of the Schools.

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Bardas Skleros

Bardas Skleros (Greek: Βάρδας Σκληρός) or Sclerus was a Byzantine general who led a wide-scale Asian rebellion against Emperor Basil II during the years 976 to 979.

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Basil II

Basil II Porphyrogenitus (Βασίλειος Πορφυρογέννητος; 958 – 15 December 1025), nicknamed the Bulgar Slayer (ὁ Βουλγαροκτόνος), was the senior Byzantine emperor from 976 to 1025. John I Tzimiskes and Basil II are 10th-century Byzantine emperors, 960s in the Byzantine Empire, 970s in the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine people of the Arab–Byzantine wars, Byzantine people of the Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars and Macedonian dynasty.

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Basil Lekapenos

Basil Lekapenos (Basíleios Lekapēnós; –), also called the Parakoimomenos (ὁ παρακοιμώμενος) or the Nothos (ὁ Νόθος, "the Bastard"), was an illegitimate child of the Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos. John I Tzimiskes and Basil Lekapenos are 920s births, Byzantine people of the Arab–Byzantine wars and Macedonian dynasty.

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Battle of Arcadiopolis (970)

The Battle of Arcadiopolis was fought in 970 between a Byzantine army under Bardas Skleros and a Rus' army, the latter also including allied Bulgarian, Pecheneg, and Hungarian (Magyar) contingents. John I Tzimiskes and Battle of Arcadiopolis (970) are 970s in the Byzantine Empire.

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Battle of Raban

The Battle of Raban was an engagement fought in autumn 958 near the fortress of Raban (in modern-day Turkey) between the Byzantine army, led by John Tzimiskes (later emperor in 969–976), and the forces of the Hamdanid Emirate of Aleppo under the famed emir Sayf al-Dawla (r. 945–967).

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Beirut

Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

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Boris II of Bulgaria

Boris II (Борисъ В҃; Борис II; c. 931 – 977) was emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria from 969 to 977 (in Byzantine captivity from 971).

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Byblos

Byblos (Βύβλος), also known as Jebeil, Jbeil or Jubayl (Jubayl, locally Jbeil; 𐤂𐤁𐤋,, probably Gebal), is an ancient city in the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Byzantine silk

Byzantine silk is silk woven in the Byzantine Empire (Byzantium) from about the fourth century until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.

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Caesarea Maritima

Caesarea (Kaisáreia; Qēsaryah; Qaysāriyyah), also Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea Palaestinae or Caesarea Stratonis, was an ancient and medieval port city on the coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, and later a small fishing village.

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Cappadocia

Cappadocia (Kapadokya, Greek: Καππαδοκία) is a historical region in Central Anatolia, Turkey.

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Constantine VII

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (Kōnstantinos Porphyrogennētos; 17 May 905 – 9 November 959) was the fourth Byzantine emperor of the Macedonian dynasty, reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959. John I Tzimiskes and Constantine VII are 10th-century Byzantine emperors, 960s in the Byzantine Empire, 970s in the Byzantine Empire and Macedonian dynasty.

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Constantine VIII

Constantine VIII (Κωνσταντῖνος, Kōnstantinos;Also called Porphyrogenitus (Πορφυρογέννητος, Porphyrogénnetos), although the epithet is almost exclusively used for Constantine VII. John I Tzimiskes and Constantine VIII are 10th-century Byzantine emperors, 960s in the Byzantine Empire, 970s in the Byzantine Empire and Macedonian dynasty.

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Constantinople

Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.

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Coronation of the Byzantine emperor

The coronation (stépsimon, or στεφάνωσις) was the main symbolic act of accession to the throne of a Byzantine emperor, co-emperor, or empress.

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Damascus

Damascus (Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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De Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.

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Domestic of the Schools

The office of the Domestic of the Schools (doméstikos tôn scholôn) was a senior military post of the Byzantine Empire, extant from the 8th century until at least the early 14th century. John I Tzimiskes and Domestic of the Schools are Domestics of the Schools.

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Dumbarton Oaks

Dumbarton Oaks, formally the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, is a historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was the residence and gardens of wealthy U.S. diplomat Robert Woods Bliss and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss.

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Fatimid Caliphate

The Fatimid Caliphate or Fatimid Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Fāṭimiyya) was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shia dynasty.

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Greeks

The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..

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Gunthertuch

The Gunthertuch is a Byzantine silk tapestry which represents the triumphal return of a Byzantine Emperor from a victorious campaign.

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Haemus Mons

In earlier times, the Balkan Mountains were known as the Haemus Mons. It is believed that the name is derived from a Thracian word *saimon, 'mountain ridge', which is unattested but conjectured as the original Thracian form of Greek Emos.

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Hamdanid dynasty

The Hamdanid dynasty (al-Ḥamdāniyyūn) was a Shia Muslim Arab dynasty of Northern Mesopotamia and Syria (890–1004).

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Histamenon

Histamenon (ἱστάμενον histámenon, "standard ") was the name given to the gold Byzantine solidus when the slightly lighter tetarteron was introduced in the 960s.

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Homs

Homs (حِمْص / ALA-LC:; Levantine Arabic: حُمْص / Ḥomṣ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa (Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate.

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Hrach Bartikyan

Hrach Mikayeli Bartikyan (Հրաչ Միքայելի Բարթիկյան; Грaч Миха́йлович Бартикян, also transliterated as Hratch Bart'ikyan; July 7, 1927–August 17, 2011) was an Armenian historian and specialist in Byzantine and medieval Armenian studies.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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John Kourkouas

John Kourkouas (Ioannes Kourkouas), also transliterated as Kurkuas or Curcuas, was one of the most important generals of the Byzantine Empire. John I Tzimiskes and John Kourkouas are Byzantine people of the Arab–Byzantine wars, Domestics of the Schools and Kourkouas family.

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Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,.

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Kourkouas

The Kourkouas family or Curcuas (Κουρκούας, from, Gurgen) was, allegedly, one of the many nakharar families from Armenia that migrated to the Byzantine Empire during the period of Arab rule over Armenia (7th–9th centuries) although the latter is mostly speculative. John I Tzimiskes and Kourkouas are Kourkouas family.

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Leo the Deacon

Leo the Deacon (Λέων ο Διάκονος; born) was a Byzantine Greek historian and chronicler.

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List of Byzantine emperors

The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD.

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Macedonian dynasty

The Macedonian dynasty (Greek: Μακεδονική Δυναστεία) ruled the Byzantine Empire from 867 to 1056, following the Amorian dynasty.

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Malatya

Malatya (translit; Syriac ܡܠܝܛܝܢܐ Malīṭīná; Meletî; Ancient Greek: Μελιτηνή) is a large city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital of Malatya Province.

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Matthew of Edessa

Matthew of Edessa (late 11th century – 1144) was an Armenian historian in the 12th century from the city of Edessa.

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Melias (Domestic of the Schools)

Melias (Μελίας; died 973 or 974) was a Byzantine general of Armenian origin, active in the wars against the Arabs in the east under Nikephoros II Phokas and John I Tzimiskes. John I Tzimiskes and Melias (Domestic of the Schools) are Byzantine people of the Arab–Byzantine wars and Domestics of the Schools.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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Michael Bourtzes

Michael Bourtzes (Μιχαήλ Βούρτζης, Arabic: Miḥā’īl al-Burdjī; ca. 930/35 – after 996) was a leading Byzantine general of the latter 10th century. John I Tzimiskes and Michael Bourtzes are Byzantine people of the Arab–Byzantine wars.

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Miliaresion

The miliaresion (μιλιαρήσιον, from miliarensis), is a name used for two types of Byzantine silver coins.

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Nazareth

Nazareth (النَّاصِرَة|an-Nāṣira; נָצְרַת|Nāṣəraṯ; Naṣrath) is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel.

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Nikephoros II Phokas

Nikephoros II Phokas (Νικηφόρος Φωκᾶς, Nikēphóros Phōkãs; – 11 December 969), Latinized Nicephorus II Phocas, was Byzantine emperor from 963 to 969. John I Tzimiskes and Nikephoros II Phokas are 10th-century Byzantine emperors, 960s in the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine people of the Arab–Byzantine wars, Byzantine people of the Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars, Domestics of the Schools, governors of the Anatolic Theme and Macedonian dynasty.

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Paulicianism

Paulicianism (Classical Armenian: Պաւղիկեաններ,; Παυλικιανοί, "The followers of Paul"; Arab sources: Baylakānī, al Bayāliqa البيالقة)Nersessian, Vrej (1998).

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Phokas (Byzantine family)

Phokas (Phōkâs) or Phocas (Latinized), feminine form Phokaina or Phocaena (Φώκαινα), was the name of a Byzantine aristocratic clan from Cappadocia, which in the 9th and 10th centuries provided a series of high-ranking generals and an emperor, Nikephoros II Phokas (963–969).

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Roman triumph

The Roman triumph (triumphus) was a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient Rome, held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the success of a military commander who had led Roman forces to victory in the service of the state or, in some historical traditions, one who had successfully completed a foreign war.

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Romanos II

Romanos II (Rōmanos; 938 – 15 March 963) was Byzantine Emperor from 959 to 963. John I Tzimiskes and Romanos II are 10th-century Byzantine emperors, 960s in the Byzantine Empire and Macedonian dynasty.

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Sayf al-Dawla

ʿAlī ibn ʾAbū'l-Hayjāʾ ʿAbdallāh ibn Ḥamdān ibn Ḥamdūn ibn al-Ḥārith al-Taghlibī (علي بن أبو الهيجاء عبد الله بن حمدان بن الحارث التغلبي, 22 June 916 – 8 February 967), more commonly known simply by his honorific of Sayf al-Dawla (سيف الدولة), was the founder of the Emirate of Aleppo, encompassing most of northern Syria and parts of the western Jazira.

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Sidon

Sidon or Saida (Ṣaydā) is the third-largest city in Lebanon.

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Siege of Dorostolon

The Battle of Dorostopol or Dorystolon was fought in 971 between the Byzantine Empire and forces of Kievan Rus'. John I Tzimiskes and Siege of Dorostolon are 970s in the Byzantine Empire.

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Silistra

Silistra (Силистра; Silistre; Silistra or Dârstor) is a town in Northeastern Bulgaria.

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Skleros

The Skleros (Σκληρός; plural: Σκληροί, Skleroi), latinized Sclerus, feminine form Skleraina (Σκλήραινα), Latinized Scleraena, was a noble Byzantine family active mostly in the 9th–11th centuries as members of the military aristocracy, and as civil functionaries thereafter.

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Sophene

Sophene (translit or Չորրորդ Հայք,; translit) was a province of the ancient kingdom of Armenia, located in the south-west of the kingdom, and of the Roman Empire.

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Stepanos Asoghik

Stepanos Asoghik (translit), also known as Stepanos Taronetsi (lit), was an Armenian historian of the centuries.

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Sviatoslav I

Sviatoslav or Svyatoslav I Igorevich (Svętoslavŭ Igorevičǐ; Old Norse: Sveinald; – 972) was Prince of Kiev from 945 until his death in 972.

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Syria (region)

Syria (Hieroglyphic Luwian: Sura/i; Συρία; ܣܘܪܝܐ) or Sham (Ash-Shām) is a historical region located east of the Mediterranean Sea in West Asia, broadly synonymous with the Levant.

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Syrian campaigns of John Tzimiskes

The Mesopotamian campaigns of John Tzimiskes were a series of campaigns undertaken by the Byzantine emperor John I Tzimiskes against the Fatimid Caliphate in the Levant and against the Abbasid Caliphate in Syria.

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Theodora (daughter of Constantine VII)

Theodora (Greek: Θεοδώρα; – after 971) was Byzantine empress as the second wife of John I Tzimiskes. John I Tzimiskes and Theodora (daughter of Constantine VII) are Macedonian dynasty.

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Theophano (born Anastaso)

Theophano (Theophanō; 941 – after 978) was a Greek woman from the region of Laconia, who became Byzantine empress by marriage to emperors Romanos II and Nikephoros II. John I Tzimiskes and Theophano (born Anastaso) are Macedonian dynasty.

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Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.

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Thrace

Thrace (Trakiya; Thráki; Trakya) is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe.

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Tiberias

Tiberias (טְבֶרְיָה,; Ṭabariyyā) is an Israeli city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.

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Treaty of Safar

The Treaty of Safar put a formal end to the extended collapse of the Hamdanid Dynasty. John I Tzimiskes and Treaty of Safar are 970s in the Byzantine Empire.

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Tripoli, Lebanon

Tripoli (طَرَابُلُس) is the largest and most important city in northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country.

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Tsimiski Street

Tsimiski Street (Οδός Τσιμισκή, Odós Tsimiskí) is a major avenue in Thessaloniki, the second-largest city in Greece.

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Tunceli Province

Tunceli Province (Tunceli ili), formerly Dersim Province (Parêzgeha Dêrsim; Dêsim wilayet), is a province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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University Press of America

University Press of America was an academic imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group that specialized in the publication of scholarly works.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_I_Tzimiskes

Also known as Byzantine Emperor John I, Ioannis Tsimiskis, Iovhannes Tchimishkik, John I Tzimikes, John I Tzimisces, John I Tzimiskes or Tzimisces, John I Zimisces, John Tzimisces, John Tzimiskes, John Zimisces, Tzimiskes.

, Mesopotamia, Michael Bourtzes, Miliaresion, Nazareth, Nikephoros II Phokas, Paulicianism, Phokas (Byzantine family), Roman triumph, Romanos II, Sayf al-Dawla, Sidon, Siege of Dorostolon, Silistra, Skleros, Sophene, Stepanos Asoghik, Sviatoslav I, Syria (region), Syrian campaigns of John Tzimiskes, Theodora (daughter of Constantine VII), Theophano (born Anastaso), Thessaloniki, Thrace, Tiberias, Treaty of Safar, Tripoli, Lebanon, Tsimiski Street, Tunceli Province, Turkey, University Press of America.

John I Tzimiskes, the Glossary

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10th-century Byzantine emperors

920s births

960s in the Byzantine Empire

970s in the Byzantine Empire

976 deaths

Armenian Byzantine emperors

Burials in Constantinople

Domestics of the Schools

Governors of the Anatolic Theme

Kourkouas family

Macedonian dynasty

References