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Also Known As Theophylact Simocatta
Born Egypt • Egypt
Died After 640 • Istanbul • Turkey
Subjects Of Study Byzantine Empire
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George Pachymeres
Byzantine scholar
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Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Byzantine monk
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George Acropolites
Byzantine statesman and scholar
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George the Monk
Byzantine historian
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George Sphrantzes
Byzantine historian
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Saint Nicephorus I
Greek Orthodox patriarch
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Theodorus Lector
Greek historian
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Joshua the Stylite
Christian monk
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Narses
Syrian theologian
Mosaic detail of Emperor Justinian I with a jeweled crown and halo, wearing ornate robes, from the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy.
Justinian I
Byzantine emperor
Heraclius
Heraclius
Byzantine emperor
Leo III
Leo III
Byzantine emperor
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Nicephorus II Phocas
Byzantine emperor
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Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
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Basil II
Byzantine emperor
Belisarius
Belisarius
Byzantine general
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Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
Byzantine emperor
Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor 1081–1118, detail of an illumination from a Greek manuscript; in the Vatican Library (Cod. Vat. Gr. 666).
Alexius I Comnenus
Byzantine emperor
Byzantine emperor
Basil I
Byzantine emperor
Theodora
Theodora
Byzantine empress [died 548]