Nikephoros Phokas the Elder
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Nikephoros Phokas the Elder (Greek: Νικηφόρος Φωκάς, Nikēphoros Phōkas) (c. 830 - c. 896) was one of the great generals in the service of the Eastern Roman Emperor Basil I.
Descended from the Phokas family, one of the large land-holding families of Anatolia, Nikephoros Phokas rose to the positions of patrikios and domestikos ton scholon. He succeeded in taking Taranto and much of Calabria in 885-886. The successes in the Italian Peninsula opened a new period of Byzantine domination there.
Nikephoros Phokas the Elder was the father of Bardas Phokas the Elder and Leo Phokas the Elder, the grandfather of Nikephoros II Phokas, emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
References
- Theophanes Continuatus, Ioannes Cameniata, Symeon Magister, Georgius Monachus, ex recognitione Immanuelis Bekkeri. Liber V, Historia de vita et de rebus gestis Basilii inclyti imperatoris. Bonnae, impensis ed. Weberi, 1838, V, 71, pp. 312-15 [1].
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- Byzantine generals
- 9th-century Byzantine people
- 890s deaths
- 830s births
- Phokas family
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