Nikephoros II Phokas (Greek: Νικηφόρος Φωκᾶς, Nikēphóros Phōkãs; c. 912 – 11 December 969), Latinized Nicephorus II Phocas, was Byzantine emperor from...

Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, was one of the most prominent Byzantine generals of the late 9th century, and the first important member of the Phokas family...

Phokas (Greek: Φωκᾶς, translit. Phōkâs) or Phocas (Latinized), feminine form Phokaina or Phocaena (Φώκαινα, Phṓkaina), was the name of a Byzantine aristocratic...

the Phokas family to try to claim the imperial throne. He was a son of the general Bardas Phokas the Younger and great-nephew of Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas...

of his generals, in particular the brothers Leo and Nikephoros Phokas. In 960 Nikephoros Phokas was sent to Crete with a fleet that was considered by...

969 Nikephoros Phokas the Elder (died ca. 896/900), an eminent Byzantine general, grandfather of emperor Nikephoros II Phokas Nikephoros Phokas Barytrachelos...

Emperor Romanos II and Empress Theophano. He was nominal co-emperor since 962, successively with his father; stepfather, Nikephoros II Phokas; uncle, John...

of the 10th century. He was the father of emperor Nikephoros II Phokas and the kouropalates Leo Phokas the Younger, and was also the maternal grandfather...

supported Nikephoros. Bringas fled, leaving his post to Lekapenos, and on 16 August 963 Nikephoros Phokas was crowned emperor. On 20 September, Phokas married...

and engagements between the forces of the Byzantine Empire under Nikephoros II Phokas and the Hamdanid ruler of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla, over control of...

Phokas encamped on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, Delphinas, Phokas' ally and the former katepano of Italy, and Phokas' blinded brother Nikephoros,...

in the mid-10th century alongside his older brother, the Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas. He served as chief minister during his brother's reign, but was...

Nikephoros II or Nicephorus II may refer to: Nikephoros II Phokas (ca. 912–969), Byzantine emperor in 963–969 Nikephoros II of Constantinople (died 1261)...

emperors Romanos II and Nikephoros II. In 963, between the deaths of Romanos and her marriage to Nikephoros, she was regent for her sons, Basil II and Constantine...

Bardas was a scion of the Phokas family, the most prominent Byzantine aristocratic clan in the 10th century. His father Leo Phokas the Younger was a curopalates...

Constantine VII (his brother-in-law), Romanos II (his nephew), Nikephoros II Phokas, John I Tzimiskes, and Basil II (his great nephew). Basil was the illegitimate...

PmbZ, Nikephoros II. Phokas (#25535). Garrood 2008, pp. 133–134. Garrood 2008, p. 134. Kaldellis 2017, pp. 39–40. PmbZ, Nikephoros II. Phokas (#25535);...

corroborated by other sources and may be out of confusion with the later Nikephoros II Phokas. Treadgold, Warren (1997). A History of the Byzantine State and Society...

in which Nikephoros supposedly originated from the Iyad tribe; she doubts both traditions, believing that they are simply legends. Nikephoros, a patrician...

known of Boris II's life until 968, when he went to Constantinople again to negotiate a peace settlement with Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, and apparently...

Constantine II (Latin: Flavius Claudius Constantinus; 316 – 340) was Roman emperor from 337 to 340. The son of the emperor Constantine I, he was proclaimed...

member of the Kourkouas family and the sister of the future Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas. Both the Kourkouai and the Phokadai were distinguished Cappadocian...

In 968 Boris II, future emperor of Bulgaria, went to Constantinople again to negotiate a peace settlement with Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, and apparently...

Byzantine defenses in the mid-9th century. The Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas recaptured Sis in 962 from the Abbasids, only to have it become an...

and Leo abandoned Bardanes shortly after he rebelled against Emperor Nikephoros I in 803, and they were rewarded with higher military commands: Michael...

powerful Cappadocian Phokas family, he was raised to high military office (stratopedarches of the East) under Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, leading the capture...

Tiberius II Constantine (Latin: Tiberius Cōnstantīnus; Greek: Τιβέριος Κωνσταντῖνος, translit. Tibérios Kōnstantĩnos; died 14 August 582) was Eastern Roman...

debate, with conflicting accounts from Patriarch Nikephoros and Theophanes the Confessor. Nikephoros claims that Anastasius orchestrated the plot himself...

Fatimid victory, and the final collapse of the attempt of Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas to recover Sicily from the Fatimids. The fall of Taormina to the...

Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, and were at one stage the most powerful noble family of Crete. According to later tradition, Emperor Alexios II Komnenos...