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    Arabs soon recaptured the island, Maniakes' successes there later inspired the Normans to invade Sicily themselves. Maniakes' achievements in Sicily were largely...
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  • Romanos III (season 3; guest season 2) Florian Munteanu as General Georgios Maniakes (season 3) Leander Vyvey as Stígr (season 3) Luke Harmon as Harald...
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  • Georgios (Γεώργιος, Geōrgios, Modern Greek: [ʝeˈorʝios] Ancient Greek: [geɔ́ːrgios]) is a Greek name derived from the word georgos (γεωργός, georgós, "farmer"...
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  • Constantine Maniakes (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Μανιάκης; fl. ca. 830–866) was a senior Byzantine court official of the mid-9th century. Maniakes was probably...
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  • Romanos III Nikolai Kinski Does not appear Guest Recurring General Georgios Maniakes Florian Munteanu Does not appear Recurring Stígr Leander Vyvey Does...
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    forces were dissatisfied with Maniakes. They sent forward their leader, Arduin, to give a voice to their reasons. Maniakes, however, humiliated Arduin,...
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    Vikings: Valhalla, the characters representing the Byzantine general Georgios Maniakes and the Viking Harald Sigurdsson (Harald Hardrada) are depicted receiving...
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    deal with the invaders. In retaliation for this, the next katepano Georgios Maniakes, dispatched to Italy with special powers in April 1042, carried out...
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    participated in the partial reconquest of Sicily from the Arabs under George Maniakes in 1038. Here, they fought alongside Normans recently arrived in Italy...
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    mittelbyzantinischen Zeit: 1. Abteilung (641–867), Band 1: Aaron (# 1) – Georgios (# 2182) (in German). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 5–6. ISBN 978-3-11-015179-4...
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    Monomachos. 1042–1043: Rebellion of George Maniakes against Constantine IX Monomachos, crushed when Maniakes died in battle in near Thessalonika. 1047:...
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    including the powerful de Hauteville brothers, served in the army of George Maniakes during the attempted Byzantine reconquest of Sicily, only to turn against...
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    Press: 1995. Theotokis, Georgios. (2014). The Norman Campaigns in the Balkans, 1081–1108, Boydell & Brewer. Theotokis, Georgios, ed. (2020). Warfare in...
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    Ancient Egypt to Iraq. DK Publishing. p. 375. ISBN 978-1-4654-0373-5. Georgios Theotokis; Dimitrios Sidiropoulos (2021). Byzantine Military Rhetoric in...
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  • Rochow I. Konstantinos Maniakes (# 3962) // Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit: I. Abteilung (641–867), 2. Band: Georgios (# 2183). Leon (# 4270)...
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  • Georgia, 1031 Byzantine treaty with Georgia, Byzantine wars with Georgios Kalliergis Georgios Sotiriou Georgius Tzul Geraki, Barony of Gerasimus I, Patriarch...
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  • sent to the Holy Land to protect pilgrims. 1038 Byzantine general George Maniakes partially reconquered the city of Syracuse in Sicily, sending the relics...
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