(981-1006/7) was the first Venetian to hold power in Dalmatia, holding the title of Dux Dalmatiae. Giovanni's father Pietro II Orseolo was the Doge of Venice, and...

marrying off one of his daughters. Zoe, aged 50, was married to Romanos Argyros. She and Romanos took the throne the next day on her father's death. Zoe's...

place following a series of Arab raids around Gaza. The Byzantine commander (dux and candidatus) Sergius assembled a small detachment of soldiers (due to...

from his victorious Persian expedition. Odenathus received the title of dux Romanorum and besieged the usurpers, who were based at Emesa. Eventually...

last campaign in Illyricum. Under Trebonianus Gallus Valerian was appointed dux of an army probably drawn from the garrisons of the German provinces which...

celebrated the victory with games in the circus. According to John Malalas, the dux Palestinae Asclepiades, whose troops were reinforced by the Caesarea-based...

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Eustathios (governor of the Cibyrrhaeot Theme) Eustathios Argyros (admiral under Leo VI) Eustathios Argyros (general under Leo VI) Eustathios Kamytzes Eustathios...

has been doubted by many historians. If he did exist he would have been a dux of the Illyrian and Thracian legions. Ulpius was reportedly born in the city...

Vaballathus. The young Vaballathus was made king (rex clarissimus imperator dux Romanorum, "illustrious King of Kings" and corrector totius orientis) of...

the Doukas dynasty pl. Ducae, feminine from Ducaena from the Latin title dux "leader", "general", Hellenized as δοὺξ [ðouks] Polemis 1968, pp. 1–2. Polemis...

last person to claim the western empire. From about 477 to 516, the Moorish dux Masties in North Africa claimed to be an emperor. In Visigothic Hispania...

the secessionist Palmyrene Empire. While the claim that he had been made a dux under the emperor Probus is probably a fabrication, he certainly attained...

A former slave of Constantine X, Nestor had been promoted to become the dux of Paradounavon, a region bordering the Danube. Having had much of his property...

II. The Historia Augusta states that Regalianus was a military commander, dux, in Illyricum, promoted to this post by emperor Valerian (r. 253–260) but...

inheritance, but was thwarted by the Byzantine general Nikephoros Ouranos, Dux of Antioch, forcing the successor Georgian Bagratids to recognize the new...

aristocratic nobles in Asia Minor. His mother was a daughter of Basil Argyros, brother of the emperor Romanos III. Courageous and generous, but also...

avoid claims to imperial power: he remains vir consularis, rex, imperator, dux Romanorum, a range of titles that did not mimic those of the central government...

attacked the province, killing the Comes litoris Saxonici Nectaridus and Dux Britanniarum Fullofaudes. At the same time, Frankish and Saxon forces were...

Bardas Phokas, named in late 963 by his son Nikephoros II Romanos III Argyros, named on 9 November 1028 by his father-in-law Constantine VIII Nikephoros...

received his first independent command by 374 when he was appointed the dux (commanding officer) of the province of Moesia Prima in the Danube. In the...

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the Byzantine Empire, but soon after the death of emperor Romanos III Argyros in 1034, Stefan Vojislav rebelled against the Byzantines. However, the...

"Zappas". However, the surname Dukas or Doukas derives from the Latin title dux or duke. -atos (-ᾶτος): (from Cephalonia), of Venetian derivation. Examples...

The 12th-century Byzantine chronicler Joannes Zonaras states that he was Dux Moesiae, a commander of forces on the lower Danube. The often-unreliable...

Arab–Byzantine War: The Byzantines under Andronikos Doukas, along with Eustathios Argyros, campaign against the Abbasids and defeat the Muslim garrisons of Mopsuestia...

Muslims received reinforcements from Africa. Giustiniano Participazio, the dux of the imperial protectorate of Venice, came to the city's aid, but was not...

against Constantine I, emperor of the West. In 316 Valens held the position of dux limitis ("duke of the frontier") in Dacia. On October 8, Constantine I, who...

committed suicide. Basil Skleros (1033) – Brother-in-law of Romanos III Argyros, he plotted against him and was exiled with his wife. Elpidios Brachamios...