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vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legacy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Legacy </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Legacy-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Legacy subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Legacy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Assessment" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Assessment"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1 Assessment </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Assessment-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Modern_views_and_depictions_in_literature" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Modern_views_and_depictions_in_literature"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2 Modern views and depictions in literature </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Modern_views_and_depictions_in_literature-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Genealogy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Genealogy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Genealogy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Genealogy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Bibliography </div> </a> <ul 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Bulgaroktonos – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Basileios II. Bulgaroktonos" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basileios_II" title="Basileios II – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Basileios II" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basileios_II." title="Basileios II. – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Basileios II." data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basileios_II" title="Basileios II – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Basileios II" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%AF%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%92%C2%B4" title="Βασίλειος Β´ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βασίλειος Β´" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilio_II" title="Basilio II – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Basilio II" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazilo_la_2-a" title="Bazilo la 2-a – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Bazilo la 2-a" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilio_II.a_Bulgaroktonoa" title="Basilio II.a Bulgaroktonoa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Basilio II.a Bulgaroktonoa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85" title="باسیل دوم – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="باسیل دوم" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basile_II" title="Basile II – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Basile II" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilio_II" title="Basilio II – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Basilio II" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%94%EC%8B%A4%EB%A6%AC%EC%98%A4%EC%8A%A4_2%EC%84%B8_%EB%B6%88%EA%B0%80%EB%A1%9D%ED%86%A0%EB%85%B8%EC%8A%A4" title="바실리오스 2세 불가록토노스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="바실리오스 2세 불가록토노스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%BD%D5%A5%D5%B2_%D4%B2_%D4%B2%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AC%D5%B2%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%BA%D5%A1%D5%B6" title="Բարսեղ Բ Բուլղարասպան – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Բարսեղ Բ Բուլղարասպան" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazilije_II." title="Bazilije II. – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Bazilije II." data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basileios_II_Boulgaroktonos" title="Basileios II Boulgaroktonos – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Basileios II Boulgaroktonos" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilio_II_Bulgaroctono" title="Basilio II Bulgaroctono – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Basilio II Bulgaroctono" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A1,_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%91%D7%99%D7%96%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99%D7%AA" title="בסיליוס השני בולגרוקטונוס, קיסר האימפריה הביזנטית – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="בסיליוס השני בולגרוקטונוס, קיסר האימפריה הביזנטית" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_II" title="ბასილი II – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ბასილი II" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_II_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B5%D1%86" title="Василий II Болгаробоец – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Василий II Болгаробоец" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilius_II_Bulgaroctonus" title="Basilius II Bulgaroctonus – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Basilius II Bulgaroctonus" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazilijus_II_Bulgarmu%C5%A1is" title="Bazilijus II Bulgarmušis – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Bazilijus II Bulgarmušis" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/II._Baszileiosz_biz%C3%A1nci_cs%C3%A1sz%C3%A1r" title="II. Baszileiosz bizánci császár – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="II. Baszileiosz bizánci császár" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%98_II" title="Василиј II – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Василиј II" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_II" title="Basil II – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Basil II" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_II" title="ბასილი II – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" 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An image of Christ sits above him and to the sides are six figures adorned in red, yellow, and purple clothing. A group of people prostrate before the emperor." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Basilios_II.jpg/230px-Basilios_II.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Basilios_II.jpg/345px-Basilios_II.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Basilios_II.jpg/460px-Basilios_II.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="894" /></a><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-bottom:0.2em;padding-top:0.2em;">Replicated depiction of Basil II from his <a href="/wiki/Menologion_of_Basil_II" title="Menologion of Basil II">Menologion</a>, <a href="/wiki/National_Historical_Museum,_Athens" title="National Historical Museum, Athens">National Historical Museum</a></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Byzantine_emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine emperor">Byzantine emperor</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">10 January 976 – 15 December 1025</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Coronation_of_the_Byzantine_emperor" title="Coronation of the Byzantine emperor">Coronation</a></th><td class="infobox-data">22 April 960 as co-emperor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_I_Tzimiskes" title="John I Tzimiskes">John I Tzimiskes</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Constantine_VIII" title="Constantine VIII">Constantine VIII</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><div style="height: 4px; width:100%;"></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">958 <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a>, <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">15 December 1025 (aged 67) Constantinople, Byzantine Empire</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Burial</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="label">Church of St. John the Theologian, Constantinople</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Βασίλειος</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Dynasty" title="Dynasty">Dynasty</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Macedonian_dynasty" title="Macedonian dynasty">Macedonian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Romanos_II" title="Romanos II">Romanos II</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mother</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Theophano_(born_Anastaso)" title="Theophano (born Anastaso)">Theophano</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chalcedonian_Christianity" title="Chalcedonian Christianity">Chalcedonian Christianity</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[note 1]</a></td></tr></tbody></table> Basil II <a href="/wiki/Porphyrogenitus" class="mw-redirect" title="Porphyrogenitus">Porphyrogenitus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: Βασίλειος Πορφυρογέννητος Basíleios Porphyrogénnetos;<a href="#cite_note-6">[note 2]</a> 958 – 15 December 1025), nicknamed the Bulgar Slayer (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: ὁ Βουλγαροκτόνος, ho Boulgaroktónos),<a href="#cite_note-9">[note 3]</a> was the senior <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine emperor">Byzantine emperor</a> from 976 to 1025. He and his brother <a href="/wiki/Constantine_VIII" title="Constantine VIII">Constantine VIII</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[note 4]</a> were <a href="/wiki/Coronation_of_the_Byzantine_emperor" title="Coronation of the Byzantine emperor">crowned</a> before their father <a href="/wiki/Romanos_II" title="Romanos II">Romanos II</a> died in 963, but they were too young to rule. The throne thus went to two generals, <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_Phokas" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikephoros Phokas">Nikephoros Phokas</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 963–969) and <a href="/wiki/John_Tzimiskes" class="mw-redirect" title="John Tzimiskes">John Tzimiskes</a> (r. 969–976) before Basil became senior emperor, though his influential great-uncle <a href="/wiki/Basil_Lekapenos" title="Basil Lekapenos">Basil Lekapenos</a> remained as the <a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a> ruler until 985.<a href="#cite_note-11">[note 5]</a> His reign of 49 years and 11 months was the longest of any <a href="/wiki/Roman_emperor" title="Roman emperor">Roman emperor</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[note 6]</a> The early years of Basil's reign were dominated by civil wars against two powerful generals from the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Anatolia" title="Byzantine Anatolia">Byzantine Anatolian</a> aristocracy: first <a href="/wiki/Bardas_Skleros" title="Bardas Skleros">Bardas Skleros</a> and later <a href="/wiki/Bardas_Phokas_the_Younger" title="Bardas Phokas the Younger">Bardas Phokas</a>, which ended shortly after Phokas' death and Skleros' submission in 989. Basil then oversaw the stabilization and expansion of the eastern frontier of the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_conquest_of_Bulgaria" title="Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria">complete subjugation</a> of the <a href="/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire" title="First Bulgarian Empire">First Bulgarian Empire</a>, its foremost European foe, after a long struggle. Although the Byzantines had made a truce with the <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimid Caliphate</a> in 987–988, Basil led a campaign against the Caliphate that ended with another truce in 1000. He also conducted a campaign against the <a href="/wiki/Khazar_Khaganate" class="mw-redirect" title="Khazar Khaganate">Khazar Khaganate</a> that gained the Byzantine Empire part of <a href="/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">Crimea</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Georgian_wars" title="Byzantine–Georgian wars">series of successful campaigns</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Georgia">Kingdom of Georgia</a>. Despite near-constant warfare, Basil distinguished himself as an administrator, reducing the power of the <a href="/wiki/Dynatoi" title="Dynatoi">great land-owning families</a> who dominated the Empire's administration and military, filling its treasury, and leaving it with its greatest expanse in four centuries. Although his successors were largely incapable rulers, the Empire flourished for decades after Basil's death. One of the most important decisions taken during his reign was to offer the hand of his sister <a href="/wiki/Anna_Porphyrogenita" title="Anna Porphyrogenita">Anna Porphyrogenita</a> to <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_I_of_Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Vladimir I of Kiev">Vladimir I of Kiev</a> in exchange for military support, thus forming the Byzantine military unit known as the <a href="/wiki/Varangian_Guard" title="Varangian Guard">Varangian Guard</a>. The marriage of Anna and Vladimir led to the <a href="/wiki/Christianization_of_the_Kievan_Rus%27" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianization of the Kievan Rus'">Christianization of the Kievan Rus'</a> and the incorporation of later successor states of Kievan Rus' within the Byzantine cultural and religious tradition. Basil is seen as a <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Greece" title="Culture of Greece">Greek national hero</a> but is a despised figure among <a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Bulgarians</a>. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Physical_appearance_and_personality">Physical appearance and personality</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Physical appearance and personality">edit</a>]</div> The courtier and historian <a href="/wiki/Michael_Psellos" title="Michael Psellos">Michael Psellos</a>, who was born towards the end of Basil's reign, gives a description of Basil in his Chronographia. Psellos describes him as a stocky man of shorter-than-average stature who nevertheless was an impressive figure on horseback. He had light-blue eyes, strongly arched eyebrows, luxuriant <a href="/wiki/Side_whiskers" class="mw-redirect" title="Side whiskers">side whiskers</a>—which he had a habit of rolling between his fingers when deep in thought or angry—and in later life a scant beard. Psellos also states that Basil was not an articulate speaker and had a loud laugh that convulsed his whole frame.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESewter195348–49-14">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHead1980233–234-15">[9]</a> Basil is described as having ascetic tastes and caring little for the pomp and ceremony of the Imperial court, typically wearing a sombre, dark-purple robe furnished with few of the gems that usually decorated imperial costumes. He is also described as a capable administrator who left a well-stocked treasury upon his death.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESewter195345–46-16">[10]</a> Basil supposedly despised literary culture and affected scorn for the learned classes of Byzantium.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESewter195343–44-17">[11]</a> According to the 19th century historian <a href="/wiki/George_Finlay" title="George Finlay">George Finlay</a>, Basil saw himself as "prudent, just, and devout; others considered him severe, rapacious, cruel, and bigoted. For <a href="/wiki/Education_in_ancient_Greece" title="Education in ancient Greece">Greek learning</a> he cared little, and he was a type of the higher Byzantine moral character, which retained far more of its <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Roman</a> than its <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Greek</a> origin".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFinlay1856427-18">[12]</a> The modern historian <a href="/wiki/John_Julius_Norwich" title="John Julius Norwich">John Julius Norwich</a> wrote of Basil: "No lonelier man ever occupied the Byzantine throne. And it is hardly surprising: Basil was ugly, dirty, coarse, boorish, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/philistine" class="extiw" title="wikt:philistine">philistine</a> and almost pathologically mean. He was in short deeply un-Byzantine. He cared only for the greatness of his Empire. No wonder that in his hands it reached its apogee".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorwich1997216-19">[13]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_rule_(960-976)">Early life and rule (960-976)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life and rule (960-976)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coronation_of_Basil_II_as_co-emperor_by_Patriarch_Polyeuctus.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Coronation_of_Basil_II_as_co-emperor_by_Patriarch_Polyeuctus.png/220px-Coronation_of_Basil_II_as_co-emperor_by_Patriarch_Polyeuctus.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Coronation_of_Basil_II_as_co-emperor_by_Patriarch_Polyeuctus.png/330px-Coronation_of_Basil_II_as_co-emperor_by_Patriarch_Polyeuctus.png 1.5x, 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(right)</figcaption></figure> Basil II was born in 958.<a href="#cite_note-PMBZ-4">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPBW2016-20">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-ODB-21">[15]</a> He was a <a href="/wiki/Porphyrogennetos" class="mw-redirect" title="Porphyrogennetos">porphyrogennetos</a> ("born into the purple"), as were his father <a href="/wiki/Romanos_II" title="Romanos II">Romanos II</a><a href="#cite_note-PMBZ-RomanosII-22">[16]</a> and his grandfather <a href="/wiki/Constantine_VII" title="Constantine VII">Constantine VII</a>;<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes200593–94-23">[17]</a> this was the appellation used for children who were born to a reigning emperor.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEODB"Porphyrogennetos"_(M._McCormack),_p._1701-24">[18]</a> Basil was the eldest son of Romanos and his <a href="/wiki/Laconia" title="Laconia">Laconian</a> <a href="/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Greek</a> second wife <a href="/wiki/Theophano_(born_Anastaso)" title="Theophano (born Anastaso)">Theophano</a>,<a href="#cite_note-25">[19]</a> who was the daughter of a poor tavern-keeper named Krateros<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBréhier1977127-26">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDiehl1927C-207-27">[21]</a> and may have originated from the city of <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Sparta</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller192147-28">[22]</a> He may have had an elder sister named Helena (born <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 955).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarland2002128,_271_(note_13)-29">[23]</a> Romanos succeeded Constantine VII as sole emperor upon the latter's death in 959.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETreadgold1997494-30">[24]</a> Basil's father crowned him as co-emperor on 22 April 960,<a href="#cite_note-PMBZ-4">[3]</a> and his brother Constantine (born 960 or 961, eventually to rule as sole emperor <a href="/wiki/Constantine_VIII" title="Constantine VIII">Constantine VIII</a> in 1025–1028) in 962 or 963.<a href="#cite_note-ODB-ConstantineVIII-31">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-PMBZ-ConstantineVIII-32">[26]</a> Only two days after the birth of his youngest child <a href="/wiki/Anna_Porphyrogenita" title="Anna Porphyrogenita">Anna</a>,<a href="#cite_note-ODB-Anna-33">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-PMBZ-Anna-34">[28]</a> Romanos II died on 15 March 963 at 24 years of age. His unexpected death was commonly thought at the time to be the result of poisoning with <a href="/wiki/Conium_maculatum" title="Conium maculatum">hemlock</a>;<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarland2002128-35">[29]</a> the chroniclers <a href="/wiki/Leo_the_Deacon" title="Leo the Deacon">Leo the Deacon</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Skylitzes" title="John Skylitzes">John Skylitzes</a> imply that Theophano was responsible,<a href="#cite_note-PMBZ-RomanosII-22">[16]</a> and according to Skylitzes, she had been complicit in an earlier attempt by Romanos II to poison Constantine VII.<a href="#cite_note-PMBZ-Theophano-36">[30]</a> Basil and Constantine were too young to rule in their own right when Romanos died in 963.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECartwright2017-37">[31]</a> Therefore, although the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine Senate">Byzantine Senate</a> confirmed them as emperors with their mother as the nominal <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">regent</a>, de facto power passed for the time into the hands of the <a href="/wiki/Parakoimomenos" title="Parakoimomenos">parakoimomenos</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bringas" title="Joseph Bringas">Joseph Bringas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-PMBZ-4">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarland2002128-35">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhittow1996348-12">[7]</a> Theophano did not trust Bringas, however, and another enemy of the powerful parakoimomenos was <a href="/wiki/Basil_Lekapenos" title="Basil Lekapenos">Basil Lekapenos</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarland2002128-35">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETreadgold1997495–498-38">[32]</a> an <a href="/wiki/Illegitimate" class="mw-redirect" title="Illegitimate">illegitimate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eunuch" title="Eunuch">eunuch</a> son of Emperor <a href="/wiki/Romanos_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanos I">Romanos I</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson201034-39">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBury1911476-40">[34]</a> – Basil's great-grandfather.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003-41">[35]</a> Lekapenos himself had been parakoimomenos to Constantine VII and <a href="/wiki/Megas_baioulos" class="mw-redirect" title="Megas baioulos">megas baioulos</a> to Romanos II.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEODB"Basil_the_Nothos"_(A._Kazhdan,_A._Cutler),_p._270-42">[36]</a> Yet another enemy of Bringas was the successful and widely popular general <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_Phokas" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikephoros Phokas">Nikephoros Phokas</a>, who had just returned from his conquest of the <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Crete" title="Emirate of Crete">Emirate of Crete</a> and a highly successful raid into <a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilicia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bilad_al-Sham" title="Bilad al-Sham">Syria</a>, which culminated in the sack of <a href="/wiki/Aleppo" title="Aleppo">Aleppo</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarland2002128-35">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETreadgold1997495–498-38">[32]</a> Phokas was proclaimed emperor by his men in July and marched on Constantinople. Bringas tried to bring in troops to stop his rival's advance, but the capital's populace supported Nikephoros. Bringas fled, leaving his post to Lekapenos, and on 16 August 963 Nikephoros Phokas was crowned emperor.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETreadgold1997498–499-43">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhittow1996348–349-44">[38]</a> On 20 September, Phokas married Theophano, but problems resulted; it was a second marriage for each spouse and Nikephoros was thought to be the godfather of one or both of Theophano's sons. Although <a href="/wiki/Polyeuctus_of_Constantinople" title="Polyeuctus of Constantinople">Polyeuctus</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Patriarch_of_Constantinople" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriarch of Constantinople">patriarch of Constantinople</a>, disapproved of the marriage, the Church declared it to be valid. With it, Nikephoros secured his legitimacy and became the guardian of Basil and Constantine.<a href="#cite_note-PMBZ-Theophano-36">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKaldellis201743-45">[39]</a> He was murdered in December 969 by Theophano<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECartwright2017-37">[31]</a> and his nephew <a href="/wiki/John_Tzimiskes" class="mw-redirect" title="John Tzimiskes">John Tzimiskes</a>, who then became emperor John I<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKaldellis201765-46">[40]</a> and exiled Theophano.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVogt1923a79-47">[41]</a> John married <a href="/wiki/Theodora,_daughter_of_Constantine_VII" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodora, daughter of Constantine VII">Theodora</a>, a sister of Romanos II.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrubakerTougher2016313-48">[42]</a> Basil II acceded to the throne as effective ruler and senior emperor when John died on 10 January 976.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETalbotSullivan200522,_220-49">[43]</a> He immediately had his mother brought back from her convent.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVogt1923b84-50">[44]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sole_emperor_(976-1025)">Sole emperor (976-1025)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sole emperor (976-1025)">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rebellions_in_Anatolia_and_alliance_with_Rus'">Rebellions in Anatolia and alliance with Rus'</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Rebellions in Anatolia and alliance with Rus'">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Histamenon_of_Basil_II_%26_Constantine_VIII.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Histamenon_of_Basil_II_%26_Constantine_VIII.png/220px-Histamenon_of_Basil_II_%26_Constantine_VIII.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Histamenon_of_Basil_II_%26_Constantine_VIII.png/330px-Histamenon_of_Basil_II_%26_Constantine_VIII.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Histamenon_of_Basil_II_%26_Constantine_VIII.png/440px-Histamenon_of_Basil_II_%26_Constantine_VIII.png 2x" data-file-width="1610" data-file-height="1617" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Histamenon" title="Histamenon">Histamenon</a> of Basil II (left) and <a href="/wiki/Constantine_VIII" title="Constantine VIII">Constantine VIII</a> (right)</figcaption></figure> Basil was a very successful soldier on horseback and through his achievement he proved himself to be an able general and a strong ruler. In the early years of his reign, administration remained in the hands of Basil Lekapenos. As president of the Byzantine Senate, Lekapenos was a wily, gifted politician who hoped the young emperors would be his puppets. The younger Basil waited and watched without interfering, devoting himself to learning the details of administrative business and military science.<a href="#cite_note-51">[45]</a> Nikephoros II and John I were brilliant military commanders but proved to be poor administrators. Towards the end of his reign, John had belatedly planned to curb the power of the great landowners; his death, which occurred soon after he spoke out against them, led to rumors that he had been poisoned by Lekapenos, who had illegally acquired vast estates and feared an investigation and punishment.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERingrose2004130-52">[46]</a> At the start of his reign, the failures of his immediate predecessors left Basil II with a serious problem: <a href="/wiki/Bardas_Skleros" title="Bardas Skleros">Bardas Skleros</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bardas_Phokas_the_Younger" title="Bardas Phokas the Younger">Bardas Phokas</a>, members of the wealthy military elite of <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a>, had sufficient means to undertake open rebellion against his authority.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECartwright2017-37">[31]</a> Skleros and Phokas, both of whom were experienced generals, wanted to assume the Imperial position that Nikephoros II and John I had held, and thus return Basil to the role of impotent cypher. Basil, showing a penchant for ruthlessness, took to the field himself and suppressed the rebellions of both <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pankaleia" title="Battle of Pankaleia">Skleros (979)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rebellion_of_Bardas_Phokas_the_Younger" title="Rebellion of Bardas Phokas the Younger">Phokas (989)</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMagdalino200336-53">[47]</a> with the help of 12,000 <a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tornike_Eristavi" class="mw-redirect" title="Tornike Eristavi">Tornikios</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_III_Kuropalates" class="mw-redirect" title="David III Kuropalates">David III Kuropalates</a> of <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Tao-Klarjeti" class="mw-redirect" title="Principality of Tao-Klarjeti">Tao</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShephard2000596-54">[48]</a> The fall of Lekapenos occurred between the rebellions in 985;<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECartwright2017-37">[31]</a> he was accused of plotting with the rebels and was punished with exile and the confiscation of his property.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBury1911476-40">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECartwright2018a-55">[49]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BattlePhokasSkleros.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/BattlePhokasSkleros.jpg/220px-BattlePhokasSkleros.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/BattlePhokasSkleros.jpg/330px-BattlePhokasSkleros.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/BattlePhokasSkleros.jpg/440px-BattlePhokasSkleros.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="362" /></a><figcaption>Clash between the armies of Bardas Skleros and Bardas Phokas at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pankaleia" title="Battle of Pankaleia">Pankaleia</a>, miniature from the <a href="/wiki/Madrid_Skylitzes" title="Madrid Skylitzes">Madrid Skylitzes</a>.</figcaption></figure> The relationship between the two generals was complicated; Phokas was instrumental in defeating the rebellion of Skleros but when Phokas later rebelled, Skleros returned from exile to support him. When Phokas died in battle,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2005465-56">[50]</a> Skleros, whom Phokas had imprisoned, assumed the leadership of the rebellion.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMagdalino200346-57">[51]</a> Basil's brother Constantine—who had no interest in politics, statecraft, or the military<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorwich1991231-58">[52]</a>–led troops alongside Basil; this was the only military command Constantine would hold. The campaign ended without combat<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorwich1991242–243-59">[53]</a> when Skleros was forced to surrender to Basil in 989.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMagdalino200346-57">[51]</a> Skleros was allowed to live but he died blind, either through disease or from being blinded as punishment for his insurrection.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson20106-60">[54]</a> These rebellions had a profound effect on Basil's outlook and methods of governance. Psellos describes the defeated Skleros giving Basil the following advice, which he took to heart: "Cut down the governors who become over-proud. Let no generals on campaign have too many resources. Exhaust them with unjust exactions, to keep them busied with their own affairs. Admit no woman to the imperial councils. Be accessible to no-one. Share with few your most intimate plans."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESewter195343-61">[55]</a> To defeat these dangerous revolts, Basil formed an alliance with Prince <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_the_Great" title="Vladimir the Great">Vladimir I</a> of <a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kiev</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson200060-62">[56]</a> who in 988 had captured <a href="/wiki/Chersonesus" title="Chersonesus">Chersonesos</a>, the Empire's main base in the <a href="/wiki/Crimean_Peninsula" class="mw-redirect" title="Crimean Peninsula">Crimean Peninsula</a>. Vladimir offered to evacuate Chersonesos and to supply 6,000 of his soldiers as reinforcements to Basil. In exchange, he demanded to be married to Basil's younger sister Anna.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrossMorgilevskiConant1936479-63">[57]</a> At first, Basil hesitated. The Byzantines viewed all of the peoples of Northern Europe—namely <a href="/wiki/Franks" title="Franks">Franks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Slavs" title="Slavs">Slavs</a>—as <a href="/wiki/Barbarian" title="Barbarian">barbarians</a>. Anna objected to marrying a barbarian ruler because such a marriage would have no precedent in Imperial annals.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeong19975-64">[58]</a> Vladimir had researched various religions, having sent delegates to various countries. Marriage was not his main reason for choosing <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>. When Vladimir promised to baptize himself and to <a href="/wiki/Christianization_of_Kievan_Rus%27" title="Christianization of Kievan Rus'">convert his people to Christianity</a>, Basil finally agreed. Vladimir and Anna were married in Crimea in 989. The Rus' warriors taken into Basil's army were instrumental in ending the rebellion; they were later organized into the <a href="/wiki/Varangian_Guard" title="Varangian Guard">Varangian Guard</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson200060-62">[56]</a> This marriage had important long-term implications, marking the beginning of the process by which the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Moscow" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Duchy of Moscow">Grand Duchy of Moscow</a> many centuries later would proclaim itself "The <a href="/wiki/Third_Rome" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Rome">Third Rome</a>", and claim the political and cultural heritage of the Byzantine Empire.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorson1998-65">[59]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Campaigns_against_the_Fatimid_Caliphate">Campaigns against the Fatimid Caliphate</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Campaigns against the Fatimid Caliphate">edit</a>]</div> Once the internal strife was quelled, Basil turned his attention to the Empire's other enemies. The Byzantine civil wars had weakened the Empire's position in the east, and the gains of Nikephoros II and John I had nearly been lost to the <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimid Caliphate</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECartwright2017-37">[31]</a> In 987–988, a seven-year truce with the Fatimids was signed; it stipulated an <a href="/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Byzantine_prisoner_exchanges" title="Arab–Byzantine prisoner exchanges">exchange of prisoners</a>, the recognition of the Byzantine emperor as protector of Christians under Fatimid rule and of the Fatimid Caliph as protector of Muslims under Byzantine rule, and the replacement of the name of the Abbasid caliph with that of the Fatimid caliph in the <a href="/wiki/Friday_prayer" title="Friday prayer">Friday prayer</a> in the mosque at <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELev1995202-66">[60]</a> This lasted until the long-time <a href="/wiki/Vizier" title="Vizier">vizier</a> <a href="/wiki/Yaqub_ibn_Killis" class="mw-redirect" title="Yaqub ibn Killis">Yaqub ibn Killis</a> died in 991. Fatimid caliph <a href="/wiki/Al-Aziz_Billah" title="Al-Aziz Billah">Al-Aziz Billah</a> chose to pursue a more aggressive stance in Syria and appointed <a href="/wiki/Manjutakin" title="Manjutakin">Manjutakin</a> as governor of <a href="/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKennedy2004324–325-67">[61]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Manjutakin's_attacks,_and_Basil's_first_expedition_to_Syria">Manjutakin's attacks, and Basil's first expedition to Syria</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Manjutakin's attacks, and Basil's first expedition to Syria">edit</a>]</div> Encouraged by the defectors after the death of emir <a href="/wiki/Sa%27d_al-Dawla" title="Sa'd al-Dawla">Sa'd al-Dawla</a>, Al-Aziz decided to renew his attacks on the <a href="/wiki/Hamdanid_dynasty" title="Hamdanid dynasty">Hamdanid Emirate</a> of Aleppo, a Byzantine protectorate, perhaps expecting Basil would not interfere. Manjutakin invaded the emirate, defeated a Byzantine force under the <a href="/wiki/Dux" title="Dux">doux</a> of <a href="/wiki/Antioch" title="Antioch">Antioch</a> <a href="/wiki/Michael_Bourtzes" title="Michael Bourtzes">Michael Bourtzes</a> in June 992, and laid siege to Aleppo. The city easily resisted. In early 993, after thirteen months of campaigning, a lack of supplies forced Manjutakin to return to Damascus.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhittow1996379–380-68">[62]</a> In 994, Manjutakin resumed his <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Aleppo_(994%E2%80%93995)" title="Siege of Aleppo (994–995)">offensive</a> and in September scored a major victory at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Orontes" title="Battle of the Orontes">Battle of the Orontes</a> against Bourtzes. Bourtzes' defeat forced Basil to intervene personally in the East; with his army, he rode through Asia Minor to Aleppo in sixteen days, arriving in April 995. Basil's sudden arrival and the exaggeration of his army's strength circulating in the Fatimid camp caused panic in the Fatimid army, especially because Manjutakin, expecting no threat, had ordered his cavalry horses to be dispersed around the city for pasture. Despite having a considerably larger and well-rested army, Manjutakin was at a disadvantage. He burned his camp and retreated to Damascus without battle.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWortley2010322-69">[63]</a> The Byzantines besieged <a href="/wiki/Tripoli,_Lebanon" title="Tripoli, Lebanon">Tripoli</a> unsuccessfully and occupied <a href="/wiki/Tartus" title="Tartus">Tartus</a>, which they refortified and garrisoned with Armenian troops. Al-Aziz now prepared to take to the field in person against the Byzantines and initiated large-scale preparations but they were abandoned upon his death.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKennedy2004325-70">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELev1995201–203-71">[65]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Second_expedition_to_Syria,_and_peace">Second expedition to Syria, and peace</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Second expedition to Syria, and peace">edit</a>]</div> Warfare between the two powers continued as the Byzantines supported an <a href="/wiki/Revolt_of_Tyre_(996%E2%80%93998)" title="Revolt of Tyre (996–998)">anti-Fatimid uprising</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tyre,_Lebanon" title="Tyre, Lebanon">Tyre</a>. In 998, the Byzantines under <a href="/wiki/Damian_Dalassenos" title="Damian Dalassenos">Damian Dalassenos</a>, the successor of Bourtzes, launched an attack on <a href="/wiki/Apamea,_Syria" title="Apamea, Syria">Apamea</a> but the Fatimid general <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jaysh_ibn_al-Samsama&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jaysh ibn al-Samsama (page does not exist)">Jaysh ibn al-Samsama</a> <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Apamea" title="Battle of Apamea">defeated them in battle</a> on 19 July 998.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWortley2010322-69">[63]</a> This defeat drew Basil back into the conflict; he arrived in Syria in October 999 and remained there for three months. Basil's troops raided as far as <a href="/wiki/Baalbek" title="Baalbek">Heliopolis</a>, placed a garrison at <a href="/wiki/Shaizar" title="Shaizar">Larissa</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMagdalino200386-72">[66]</a> and burnt three minor forts in the vicinity of <a href="/wiki/Abu_Qubays,_Syria" title="Abu Qubays, Syria">Abu Qubais</a>, <a href="/wiki/Masyaf" title="Masyaf">Masyath</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arqa" title="Arqa">Arca</a>. The siege of Tripoli in December failed while <a href="/wiki/Homs" title="Homs">Emesa</a> was not threatened.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStevenson1926252-73">[67]</a> Basil's attention was diverted to developments in <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Georgia">Georgia</a> following the murder of <a href="/wiki/David_III_Kuropalates" class="mw-redirect" title="David III Kuropalates">David III Kuropalates</a>; he departed for Cilicia in January and dispatched another embassy to Cairo.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003-41">[35]</a> In 1000, a ten-year truce was concluded between the two states.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELev1995203–205-74">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson201032-75">[69]</a> For the remainder of the reign of <a href="/wiki/Al-Hakim_bi-Amr_Allah" title="Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah">Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr>  996–1021), relations remained peaceful as al-Hakim was more interested in internal affairs. Even the acknowledgement of Fatimid suzerainty by <a href="/wiki/Abu_Muhammad_Lu%27lu%27_al-Kabir" class="mw-redirect" title="Abu Muhammad Lu'lu' al-Kabir">Abu Muhammad Lu'lu' al-Kabir</a> of Aleppo in 1004 and the Fatimid-sponsored installment of <a href="/wiki/Aziz_al-Dawla" title="Aziz al-Dawla">Aziz al-Dawla</a> as the city's emir in 1017 did not lead to a resumption of hostilities, especially because al-Kabir continued to pay tribute to the Byzantines and al-Dawla quickly began acting as an independent ruler.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELev1995205-76">[70]</a> Al-Hakim's <a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians" title="Persecution of Christians">persecution of Christians</a> in his realm and especially the 1009 destruction of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre" title="Church of the Holy Sepulchre">Church of the Holy Sepulchre</a> at his orders strained relations and, along with Fatimid interference in Aleppo, provided the main focus of Fatimid–Byzantine diplomatic relations until the late 1030s.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELev1995203,_205–208-77">[71]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conquest_of_Bulgaria">Conquest of Bulgaria</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Conquest of Bulgaria">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_conquest_of_Bulgaria" title="Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria">Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First_Bulgarian_Empire_(976-1018).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/First_Bulgarian_Empire_%28976-1018%29.png/300px-First_Bulgarian_Empire_%28976-1018%29.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/First_Bulgarian_Empire_%28976-1018%29.png/450px-First_Bulgarian_Empire_%28976-1018%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/First_Bulgarian_Empire_%28976-1018%29.png/600px-First_Bulgarian_Empire_%28976-1018%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1620" data-file-height="1476" /></a><figcaption>Military campaigns during the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_conquest_of_Bulgaria" title="Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria">Byzantine-Bulgarian War</a>.</figcaption></figure> Basil sought to restore former territories of the Byzantine Empire. At the start of the second millennium, he fought <a href="/wiki/Samuel_of_Bulgaria" title="Samuel of Bulgaria">Samuel of Bulgaria</a>, his greatest adversary. <a href="/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire" title="First Bulgarian Empire">Bulgaria</a> had been partly subjugated by John I after the <a href="/wiki/Sviatoslav%27s_invasion_of_Bulgaria" title="Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria">invasion</a> of <a href="/wiki/Svyatoslav_I_of_Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Svyatoslav I of Kiev">Svyatoslav I of Kiev</a> but parts of the country had remained outside Byzantine control under the leadership of Samuel and his brothers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETalbotSullivan20053-78">[72]</a> Because the Bulgars had been raiding Byzantine lands since 976, the Byzantine government sought to cause dissension among them by allowing the escape of their captive emperor <a href="/wiki/Boris_II_of_Bulgaria" title="Boris II of Bulgaria">Boris II of Bulgaria</a>. This ploy failed so Basil used a respite from his conflict with the nobility to lead a 30,000-strong army into Bulgaria and besiege Sredets (<a href="/wiki/Sofia" title="Sofia">Sofia</a>) in 986.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2005402-79">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson201014-80">[74]</a> Taking losses and worried about the loyalty of some of his governors, Basil lifted the siege and returned for <a href="/wiki/Thrace" title="Thrace">Thrace</a> but he fell into an ambush and suffered a serious defeat at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Gates_of_Trajan" title="Battle of the Gates of Trajan">Battle of the Gates of Trajan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson201014-80">[74]</a> Basil escaped with the help of his Varangian Guard and attempted to recover his losses by turning Samuel's brother <a href="/wiki/Aron_of_Bulgaria" title="Aron of Bulgaria">Aron</a> against him. Aron was tempted by Basil's offer of his sister Anna in marriage, but the negotiations failed when Aron discovered the bride he was sent was an imposter. By 987, Samuel had eliminated Aron. Another brother of Samuel, called David, was killed in 976 by the Vlachs, the guards of caravans, between Prespa and Kastoria.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWortley2010312-81">[75]</a> Although the titular emperor <a href="/wiki/Roman_of_Bulgaria" title="Roman of Bulgaria">Roman of Bulgaria</a> was captured in 991, Basil lost <a href="/wiki/Moesia" title="Moesia">Moesia</a> to the Bulgarians.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003-41">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorwich1981158-82">[76]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ambush_and_death_of_Gregorios_Taronites_by_the_Bulgarians.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Ambush_and_death_of_Gregorios_Taronites_by_the_Bulgarians.jpg/220px-Ambush_and_death_of_Gregorios_Taronites_by_the_Bulgarians.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="84" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Ambush_and_death_of_Gregorios_Taronites_by_the_Bulgarians.jpg/330px-Ambush_and_death_of_Gregorios_Taronites_by_the_Bulgarians.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Ambush_and_death_of_Gregorios_Taronites_by_the_Bulgarians.jpg/440px-Ambush_and_death_of_Gregorios_Taronites_by_the_Bulgarians.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5500" data-file-height="2108" /></a><figcaption>The Armenian prince <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Taronites" title="Gregory Taronites">Gregory Taronites</a> is ambushed by the Bulgarians near <a href="/wiki/Thessaloniki" title="Thessaloniki">Thessalonica</a>.</figcaption></figure> While Basil was distracted with internal rebellions and recovering the military situation on his eastern frontier, Samuel had extended his rule from the <a href="/wiki/Adriatic_Sea" title="Adriatic Sea">Adriatic Sea</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sea" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a>, recovering most of the territory that was controlled by Bulgaria before the invasion of Svyatoslav. He also conducted damaging raids into Byzantine territory as far as central Greece. In 996, the Byzantine general <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_Ouranos" title="Nikephoros Ouranos">Nikephoros Ouranos</a> defeated a Bulgarian army raid at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Spercheios" title="Battle of Spercheios">Battle of Spercheios</a> in <a href="/wiki/Thessaly" title="Thessaly">Thessaly</a>. Samuel and his son <a href="/wiki/Gavril_Radomir" class="mw-redirect" title="Gavril Radomir">Gabriel</a> narrowly escaped capture.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFinlay1856440–441-83">[77]</a> Beginning in 1000, Basil was free to focus on a war of conquest against Bulgaria, which he fought with grinding persistence and strategic insight. In 1000, the Byzantine generals <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_Xiphias" title="Nikephoros Xiphias">Nikephoros Xiphias</a> and <a href="/wiki/Theodorokanos" title="Theodorokanos">Theodorokanos</a> took the former Bulgarian capital <a href="/wiki/Preslav" class="mw-redirect" title="Preslav">Great Preslav</a>, and the towns Lesser Preslav and <a href="/wiki/Pliska" title="Pliska">Pliskova</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWortley2010326-84">[78]</a> In 1001, Basil, operating from <a href="/wiki/Thessalonica" class="mw-redirect" title="Thessalonica">Thessalonica</a>, regained control of <a href="/wiki/Vodena" class="mw-redirect" title="Vodena">Vodena</a>, <a href="/wiki/Veria" title="Veria">Verrhoia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Servia,_Greece" title="Servia, Greece">Servia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFinlay1856442-85">[79]</a> The following year, he based his army in <a href="/wiki/Plovdiv" title="Plovdiv">Philippopolis</a> and occupied the length of the military road from the western Haemus Mountains to the Danube, cutting off communications between Samuel's Macedonian heartland and <a href="/wiki/Paristrion" title="Paristrion">Paristrion</a> (the lands south of the lower Danube). Following this success, Basil laid siege to <a href="/wiki/Vidin" title="Vidin">Vidin</a>, which fell after a prolonged resistance.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFinlay1856442–443-86">[80]</a> Samuel reacted to the Byzantine campaign by launching a large-scale raid into the heart of Byzantine Thrace and took the major city of <a href="/wiki/Adrianople" class="mw-redirect" title="Adrianople">Adrianople</a> by surprise.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWortley2010328-87">[81]</a> After turning homeward with his extensive plunder, Samuel was <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Skopje" title="Battle of Skopje">intercepted near Skopje</a> by a Byzantine army commanded by Basil, whose forces stormed the Bulgarian camp, defeating the Bulgarians and recovering the plunder from Adrianople. Skopje surrendered shortly after the battle,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECartwright2017-37">[31]</a> and Basil treated its governor Romanos with overt kindness.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFinlay1856443-88">[82]</a> In 1005, the governor of <a href="/wiki/Durr%C3%ABs" title="Durrës">Dyrrhachium</a> <a href="/wiki/Ashot_Taronites" title="Ashot Taronites">Ashot Taronites</a> surrendered his city to the Byzantines.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECartwright2017-37">[31]</a> The defection of Dyrrhachium completed the isolation of Samuel's core territories in the highlands of western <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(region)" title="Macedonia (region)">Macedonia</a>. Samuel was forced into an almost entirely defensive stance; he extensively fortified the passes and routes from the coastlines and valleys held by the Byzantines to the territory remaining in his possession. During the next few years, the Byzantine offensive slowed and no significant gains were made, although an attempt by the Bulgarians to counter-attack in 1009 was defeated at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kreta" title="Battle of Kreta">Battle of Kreta</a>, to the east of Thessalonica.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003-41">[35]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Chronicle_of_Ioannis_Skylitzis_Bulagar_Defeat.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/The_Chronicle_of_Ioannis_Skylitzis_Bulagar_Defeat.jpg/220px-The_Chronicle_of_Ioannis_Skylitzis_Bulagar_Defeat.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="99" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/The_Chronicle_of_Ioannis_Skylitzis_Bulagar_Defeat.jpg/330px-The_Chronicle_of_Ioannis_Skylitzis_Bulagar_Defeat.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/The_Chronicle_of_Ioannis_Skylitzis_Bulagar_Defeat.jpg/440px-The_Chronicle_of_Ioannis_Skylitzis_Bulagar_Defeat.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1180" data-file-height="533" /></a><figcaption>Byzantine victory over the Bulgarians at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kleidion" title="Battle of Kleidion">Battle of Kleidion</a>, from the Madrid Skylitzes</figcaption></figure> In 1014, Basil was ready to launch a campaign aimed at destroying Bulgarian resistance. On 29 July 1014, in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kleidion" title="Battle of Kleidion">Battle of Kleidion</a>, he and his general Nikephoros Xiphias outmaneuvered the Bulgarian army,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson20103-89">[83]</a> which was defending one of the fortified passes.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson201026-90">[84]</a> Samuel avoided capture through the valor of his son Gabriel. Having crushed the Bulgarians, Basil exacted his vengeance cruelly—he was said to have captured 15,000 prisoners and fully blinded 99 of every 100 men, leaving one one-eyed man in each cohort to lead the rest back to their ruler. A possible reason for this vengeance was that, in Byzantine eyes, the Bulgarians were rebels against their authority, and blinding was the <a href="/wiki/Political_mutilation_in_Byzantine_culture" title="Political mutilation in Byzantine culture">usual punishment</a> meted out to rebels.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEODB297–298-91">[85]</a> Samuel was struck down by the sight of his blinded army and died two days later<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBury1911476-40">[34]</a> on 6 October 1014 after suffering a stroke.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson20103-89">[83]</a> Bulgaria fought on for four more years, its resistance fired by Basil's cruelty, but it submitted in 1018.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003-41">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECartwright2018c-92">[86]</a> This submission was the result of continued military pressure and a successful diplomatic campaign aimed at dividing and suborning the Bulgarian leadership. This victory over the Bulgarians and the later submission of the <a href="/wiki/Serbs" title="Serbs">Serbs</a> fulfilled one of Basil's goals; the Empire regained its ancient <a href="/wiki/Danube_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Danube River">Danubian</a> frontier for the first time in 400 years.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003-41">[35]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roman_triumph,_Basil_II.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Roman_triumph%2C_Basil_II.jpg/220px-Roman_triumph%2C_Basil_II.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="99" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Roman_triumph%2C_Basil_II.jpg/330px-Roman_triumph%2C_Basil_II.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Roman_triumph%2C_Basil_II.jpg/440px-Roman_triumph%2C_Basil_II.jpg 2x" data-file-width="775" data-file-height="350" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Roman_triumph" title="Roman triumph">Triumph</a> of Basil II through the <a href="/wiki/Forum_of_Constantine" title="Forum of Constantine">Forum of Constantine</a>, from the Madrid Skylitzes</figcaption></figure> The rulers of neighbouring Croatia, <a href="/wiki/Kre%C5%A1imir_III" title="Krešimir III">Krešimir III</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gojslav" title="Gojslav">Gojslav</a>, who were previously allies of Bulgaria, accepted Basil's supremacy to avoid the same fate as Bulgaria;<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson200074-93">[87]</a> Basil warmly received their offers of vassalage and awarded them the honorary title of <a href="/wiki/Patrikios" class="mw-redirect" title="Patrikios">patrikios</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWortley2010339-94">[88]</a> Croatia remained a tributary state to Basil until his death in 1025.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1991277–278-95">[89]</a> Before returning to Constantinople, Basil celebrated his triumph in <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003-41">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson200076-96">[90]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes200560-97">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson2010104-98">[92]</a> He showed considerable statesmanship in his treatment of the defeated Bulgarians, giving many former Bulgarian leaders court titles, positions in provincial administration, and high commands in the army. In this way, he sought to absorb the Bulgarian elite into Byzantine society. Because Bulgaria did not have a monetary economy to the same extent as Byzantium, Basil decided to accept Bulgarian taxes in kind.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson200077-99">[93]</a> Basil's successors reversed this policy, a decision that led to considerable Bulgarian discontent and rebellion later in the 11th century.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHarris2015192-100">[94]</a> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Khazar_campaign">Khazar campaign</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Khazar campaign">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Khazarfall1.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Khazarfall1.svg/300px-Khazarfall1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Khazarfall1.svg/450px-Khazarfall1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Khazarfall1.svg/600px-Khazarfall1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="670" data-file-height="448" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Pontic_steppe" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontic steppe">Pontic steppes</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1015. The areas in blue are those possibly still under Khazar control. The positioning of the rump of the Bulgarian state in 1015 is incorrect on this map.</figcaption></figure> Although the Kievan Rus' had broken the power of the <a href="/wiki/Khazars" title="Khazars">Khazar Khaganate</a> in the 960s, the Byzantines had not been able to fully exploit the <a href="/wiki/Power_vacuum" title="Power vacuum">power vacuum</a> and restore their dominion over Crimea and other areas around the Black Sea. In 1016, <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_armies" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine armies">Byzantine armies</a> in conjunction with <a href="/wiki/Mstislav_of_Chernigov" title="Mstislav of Chernigov">Mstislav of Chernigov</a> attacked the Crimea,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003-41">[35]</a> much of which had fallen under the control of the Khazar successor kingdom of <a href="/wiki/George_Tzoul" class="mw-redirect" title="George Tzoul">George Tzoul</a> based at <a href="/wiki/Kerch" title="Kerch">Kerch</a>. <a href="/wiki/Kedrenos" class="mw-redirect" title="Kedrenos">Kedrenos</a> reports that Tzoul was captured and the Khazar successor kingdom was destroyed. Subsequently, the Byzantines occupied southern Crimea.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMango2002180-101">[95]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Campaigns_against_Georgia">Campaigns against Georgia</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Campaigns against Georgia">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Georgian_wars" title="Byzantine–Georgian wars">Byzantine–Georgian wars</a></div> The integrity of the Byzantine Empire was threatened after a full-scale rebellion led by Bardas Skleros broke out in 976. After winning a series of battles, the rebels conquered Asia Minor. In the urgency of the situation, Georgian prince <a href="/wiki/David_III_of_Tao" title="David III of Tao">David III of Tao</a> aided Basil; after a decisive loyalist victory at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pankalia" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Pankalia">Battle of Pankaleia</a>, he was rewarded by lifetime rule of key imperial territories in eastern Asia Minor. David's rebuff of Basil in Bardas Phokas' revolt of 987, however, evoked Constantinople's distrust of the Georgian rulers. After the revolt's failure, David was forced to make Basil the legatee of his extensive possessions. In 1001, after the death of David of Tao, Basil inherited Tao, <a href="/wiki/Phasiane_(historical_region)" title="Phasiane (historical region)">Phasiane</a> and <a href="/wiki/Speri_(region)" title="Speri (region)">Speri</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes20052-102">[96]</a> These provinces were then organized into the <a href="/wiki/Iberia_(theme)" title="Iberia (theme)">theme of Iberia</a> with the capital at <a href="/wiki/Erzurum" title="Erzurum">Theodosiopolis</a>. This forced the successor Georgian Bagratid ruler <a href="/wiki/Bagrat_III_of_Georgia" title="Bagrat III of Georgia">Bagrat III</a> to recognize the new rearrangement. Bagrat's son <a href="/wiki/George_I_of_Georgia" title="George I of Georgia">George I</a>, however, inherited a longstanding claim to David's succession. George, who was young and ambitious, launched a campaign to restore the Kuropalates's succession to Georgia and occupied Tao in 1015–1016. He entered in an alliance with the Fatimid caliph of Egypt, al-Hakim, forcing Basil to refrain from an acute response to George's offensive. The Byzantines were also involved in a relentless war with the Bulgarians, limiting their actions to the west. As soon as <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_conquest_of_Bulgaria" title="Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria">Bulgaria was conquered</a> in 1018 and al-Hakim was dead, Basil led his army against Georgia. Preparations for a larger-scale campaign against the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Georgia">Kingdom of Georgia</a> were set, beginning with the re-fortification of Theodosiopolis.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003-41">[35]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Skylitzes._Basil_II_vs_Georgians_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Skylitzes._Basil_II_vs_Georgians_cropped.jpg/220px-Skylitzes._Basil_II_vs_Georgians_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Skylitzes._Basil_II_vs_Georgians_cropped.jpg/330px-Skylitzes._Basil_II_vs_Georgians_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Skylitzes._Basil_II_vs_Georgians_cropped.jpg/440px-Skylitzes._Basil_II_vs_Georgians_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1642" data-file-height="543" /></a><figcaption>A miniature depicting the defeat of the Georgian king <a href="/wiki/George_I_of_Georgia" title="George I of Georgia">George I</a> ("Georgios of Abasgia") by the Basil II. <a href="/wiki/Madrid_Skylitzes" title="Madrid Skylitzes">Madrid Skylitzes</a>, fol. 195v.</figcaption></figure> In late 1021, Basil, at the head of a large Byzantine army reinforced by the <a href="/wiki/Varangian_Guard" title="Varangian Guard">Varangian Guard</a>, attacked the Georgians and their <a href="/wiki/Bagratid_Armenia" title="Bagratid Armenia">Armenian</a> allies, recovering Phasiane and continuing beyond the frontiers of Tao into inner Georgia.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMagdalino200365-103">[97]</a> King George burned the city of <a href="/wiki/Oltu" title="Oltu">Oltisi</a> to prevent it falling to the enemy and retreated to <a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6le" title="Göle">Kola</a>. A bloody <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shirimni" title="Battle of Shirimni">battle was fought near the village Shirimni</a> at <a href="/wiki/Lake_%C3%87%C4%B1ld%C4%B1r" title="Lake Çıldır">Lake Palakazio</a> on 11 September; the emperor won a costly victory, forcing George I to retreat northwards into his kingdom. Basil plundered the country and withdrew for winter to <a href="/wiki/Trabzon" title="Trabzon">Trebizond</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWortley2010347-104">[98]</a> Several attempts to negotiate the conflict failed. George received reinforcements from the <a href="/wiki/First_Kingdom_of_Kakheti" class="mw-redirect" title="First Kingdom of Kakheti">Kakhetians</a> and allied himself with the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine">Byzantine</a> commanders <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_Phokas_Barytrachelos" title="Nikephoros Phokas Barytrachelos">Nikephoros Phokas Barytrachelos</a> and Nikephoros Xiphias in their abortive insurrection in the emperor's rear. In December, George's ally the Armenian king <a href="/wiki/Senekerim-Hovhannes_Artsruni" title="Senekerim-Hovhannes Artsruni">Senekerim</a> of <a href="/wiki/Vaspurakan" title="Vaspurakan">Vaspurakan</a>, who was being harassed by the <a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Turks" class="mw-redirect" title="Seljuk Turks">Seljuk Turks</a>, surrendered his kingdom to the emperor.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMango2002309-105">[99]</a> During early 1022, Basil launched a final offensive, defeating the Georgians at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Svindax" title="Battle of Svindax">Battle of Svindax</a>. Menaced both by land and sea, George agreed to a <a href="/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Georgian_treaty_of_1022" title="Byzantine–Georgian treaty of 1022">treaty</a> that handed over Tao, Phasiane, Kola, <a href="/wiki/Ardahan" title="Ardahan">Artaan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Javakheti" title="Javakheti">Javakheti</a>, and left his infant son <a href="/wiki/Bagrat_IV_of_Georgia" title="Bagrat IV of Georgia">Bagrat</a> as Basil's hostage.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2005483-106">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiscal_policies">Fiscal policies</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Fiscal policies">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Basil_II_%26_Constantine_VIII_in_the_Exultet_roll.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Basil_II_%26_Constantine_VIII_in_the_Exultet_roll.jpg/220px-Basil_II_%26_Constantine_VIII_in_the_Exultet_roll.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="288" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Basil_II_%26_Constantine_VIII_in_the_Exultet_roll.jpg/330px-Basil_II_%26_Constantine_VIII_in_the_Exultet_roll.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Basil_II_%26_Constantine_VIII_in_the_Exultet_roll.jpg 2x" data-file-width="405" data-file-height="531" /></a><figcaption>Basil II (left) and <a href="/wiki/Constantine_VIII" title="Constantine VIII">Constantine VIII</a> (right) in a <a href="/wiki/Bari" title="Bari">Bari</a> <a href="/wiki/Exultet_roll" title="Exultet roll">Exultet roll</a>, produced during Basil's late reign.<a href="#cite_note-108">[note 7]</a></figcaption></figure> In 992, Basil concluded a treaty with the <a href="/wiki/Doge_of_Venice" title="Doge of Venice">Doge of Venice</a> <a href="/wiki/Pietro_II_Orseolo" title="Pietro II Orseolo">Pietro II Orseolo</a> under terms reducing Venice's custom duties in Constantinople from 30 <a href="/wiki/Nomismata" class="mw-redirect" title="Nomismata">nomismata</a> to 17 nomismata. In return, the Venetians agreed to transport Byzantine troops to southern Italy in times of war.<a href="#cite_note-109">[102]</a><a href="#cite_note-111">[note 8]</a> According to one estimate, a Byzantine landowning farmer might expect a profit of 10.2 nomismata after paying dues for half of his best-quality land.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELaiou2007303-112">[104]</a> Basil was popular with the country farmers,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson2000280-113">[105]</a> the class that produced most of his army's supplies and soldiers. To assure this continued, Basil's laws protected small agrarian property owners and lowered their taxes. Despite the almost constant wars, Basil's reign was considered an era of relative prosperity for the class.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003-41">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMagdalino200379-114">[106]</a> Seeking to protect the lower and middle classes, Basil made ruthless war upon the system of immense estates in Asia Minor<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBury1911476-40">[34]</a>—which his predecessor <a href="/wiki/Romanos_I_Lekapenos" title="Romanos I Lekapenos">Romanos I</a> had endeavored to check<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECartwright2018a-55">[49]</a>—by executing a <a href="/wiki/Novel_(Roman_law)" title="Novel (Roman law)">legal decree</a> in January 996 that limited rights to property ownership. If the owner of an estate could prove that he claimed his estate prior to the Novels of Romanos, he would be allowed to keep it. If a person had illegally seized an estate following the Novels of Romanos, he would have his rights to the estate declared null and the legal owners could reclaim it.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVogt1923b92-115">[107]</a> In 1002, Basil also introduced the <a href="/wiki/Allelengyon" title="Allelengyon">allelengyon</a> tax<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMakris2006-116">[108]</a> as a specific law obliging the <a href="/wiki/Dynatoi" title="Dynatoi">dynatoi</a> (wealthy landholders) to cover for the arrears of poorer tax-payers. Though it proved unpopular with the wealthier sections of Byzantine society,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEODB"Allelengyon"_(A._Cutler),_p._69-117">[109]</a> Basil did not abolish the tax;<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThomasThomas1987165-118">[110]</a> the emperor <a href="/wiki/Romanos_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanos III">Romanos III</a> abolished the allelengyon in 1028.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMakris2006-116">[108]</a> By 1025, Basil—with an annual revenue of 7 million nomismata—was able to amass 14.4 million nomismata (or 200,000 pounds/90 <a href="/wiki/Tonne" title="Tonne">tonnes</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gold" title="Gold">gold</a>) for the Imperial treasury due to his prudent management.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESewter195319-119">[111]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMagdalino200385-120">[112]</a> Despite his attempts to control the power of the aristocracy, they again took control of the government following his death.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephensonHoppenbrouwers20149-121">[113]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Military_policies">Military policies</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Military policies">edit</a>]</div> Basil II was praised by his army<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson201066-122">[114]</a> because he spent most of his reign campaigning with it rather than sending orders from Constantinople, as had most of his predecessors. This allowed his army to be largely supportive of him, often making his stance in political and church matters unquestionable. He lived the life of a soldier to the point of eating the same daily rations as the rest of the army. He also took the children of dead army officers under his protection and offered them shelter, food and education.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerrin2013219-123">[115]</a> Many of these children became his soldiers and officers, taking the places of their fathers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2005260-124">[116]</a> One of them, <a href="/wiki/Isaac_I_Komnenos" title="Isaac I Komnenos">Isaac Komnenos</a>, later became emperor himself. Basil did not innovate in terms of military organization: in the conquered territories he introduced both the small themes or strategiai, centred around a fortress town, that were such a common feature of the 10th-century reconquests of the East under Phokas and Tzimiskes,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKühn199161ff.-125">[117]</a> as well as the extensive regional commands under a doux or katepano (<a href="/wiki/Iberia_(theme)" title="Iberia (theme)">Iberia</a> in 1000,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKühn1991187-126">[118]</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Asprakania&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Asprakania (page does not exist)">Asprakania</a> or Upper Media in 1019/22,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKühn1991192-127">[119]</a> <a href="/wiki/Paristrion" title="Paristrion">Paristrion</a> in 1000/20,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKühn1991223-128">[120]</a> <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_(theme)" title="Bulgaria (theme)">Bulgaria</a> in 1018,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKühn1991227-129">[121]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sirmium_(theme)" title="Sirmium (theme)">Sirmium</a> in 1019<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKühn1991233-130">[122]</a>). The exact size of the army under Basil II is unknown, but estimates put it as high as 110,000 men, excluding the imperial <a href="/wiki/Tagma_(military)" title="Tagma (military)">tagmata</a> in Constantinople; a considerable force, compared with the nominal establishment force of <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 120,000 in the 9th–10th centuries, or the 150,000–160,000 of the field armies under <a href="/wiki/Justinian_I" title="Justinian I">Justinian I</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHaldon1999100–103-131">[123]</a> At the same time, however, under Basil the practice began of relying on allied states—most notably Venice—for naval power, beginning the slow decline of the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_navy" title="Byzantine navy">Byzantine navy</a> during the 11th century.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHaldon199990–91-132">[124]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_life,_death_and_burial">Later life, death and burial</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Later life, death and burial">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_Byzantine_Empire_1025-en.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Map_Byzantine_Empire_1025-en.svg/440px-Map_Byzantine_Empire_1025-en.svg.png" decoding="async" width="440" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Map_Byzantine_Empire_1025-en.svg/660px-Map_Byzantine_Empire_1025-en.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Map_Byzantine_Empire_1025-en.svg/880px-Map_Byzantine_Empire_1025-en.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1963" data-file-height="1104" /></a><figcaption>The Byzantine Empire at the death of Basil II in 1025</figcaption></figure> Basil II later secured the annexation of the sub-kingdoms of <a href="/wiki/Bagratuni_Kingdom_of_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagratuni Kingdom of Armenia">Armenia</a> and a promise that its capital and surrounding regions would be willed to Byzantium following the death of its king <a href="/wiki/Hovhannes_I_of_Ani" class="mw-redirect" title="Hovhannes I of Ani">Hovhannes-Smbat</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETreadgold1997528–529-133">[125]</a> In 1021, he also secured the cession of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Vaspurakan" title="Kingdom of Vaspurakan">Kingdom of Vaspurakan</a> by its king <a href="/wiki/Seneqerim-Hovhannes_of_Vaspurakan" class="mw-redirect" title="Seneqerim-Hovhannes of Vaspurakan">Seneqerim-John</a>, in exchange for estates in <a href="/wiki/Sebasteia_(theme)" title="Sebasteia (theme)">Sebasteia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMango2002309-105">[99]</a> Basil created a strongly fortified frontier in those highlands. Other Byzantine forces restored much of <a href="/wiki/Southern_Italy" title="Southern Italy">Southern Italy</a>, which had been lost during the previous 150 years.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHussey1998-134">[126]</a> Basil was preparing a military expedition to recover the island of <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a> when he died on 15 December 1025,<a href="#cite_note-140">[note 9]</a> having had the longest reign among any Byzantine or Roman emperor.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERogers2010126-141">[132]</a> At the time of his death, the Empire stretched from southern Italy to the <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a> and from the <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Danube</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Levant" title="Levant">Levant</a>, which was its greatest territorial extent since the <a href="/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests" title="Early Muslim conquests">Muslim conquests</a> four centuries earlier.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes200523-142">[133]</a> Basil was to be buried in the last sarcophagus available in the <a href="/wiki/Rotunda_(architecture)" title="Rotunda (architecture)">rotunda</a> of <a href="/wiki/Constantine_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Constantine I">Constantine I</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Apostles" title="Church of the Holy Apostles">Church of the Holy Apostles</a> but he later asked his brother and successor Constantine VIII to be buried in the Church of St. John the Theologian (i.e., the Evangelist) at the <a href="/wiki/Hebdomon" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebdomon">Hebdomon</a> Palace complex outside the walls of Constantinople.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003-41">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECartwright2018c-92">[86]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Epitaph_on_the_tomb_of_Basil_II" title="Epitaph on the tomb of Basil II">epitaph on Basil's tomb</a> celebrated his campaigns and victories. His final resting place carried the following inscription: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">From the day that the King of Heaven called upon me to become the Emperor, the great overlord of the world, no one saw my spear lie idle. I stayed alert throughout my life and protected the children of the New Rome, valiantly campaigning both in the West and at the outposts of the East ... O, man, seeing now my tomb here, reward me for my campaigns with your prayers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerrin2013219-123">[115]</a></blockquote> In 1260, during the unsuccessful <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Nicaea" title="Empire of Nicaea">Nicean Byzantine</a> <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(1260)" title="Siege of Constantinople (1260)">siege of Constantinople</a>, then held by the <a href="/wiki/Latin_Empire" title="Latin Empire">Latin Empire</a>, a corpse was found, upright in a corner of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, with a shepherd's flute placed in its mouth. An inscription allowed the Nicaean soldiers to identify the corpse as the remains of Basil II. The body of Basil II was transferred to the Monastery of the Saviour at <a href="/wiki/Selymbria" title="Selymbria">Selymbria</a>. The following year Constantinople was recovered by the Byzantines.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson201095-143">[134]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Legacy">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Assessment">Assessment</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Assessment">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Serbs_and_Croats_in_front_of_the_Byzantine_Emperor_Basil_II.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Serbs_and_Croats_in_front_of_the_Byzantine_Emperor_Basil_II.jpg/290px-Serbs_and_Croats_in_front_of_the_Byzantine_Emperor_Basil_II.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Serbs_and_Croats_in_front_of_the_Byzantine_Emperor_Basil_II.jpg/435px-Serbs_and_Croats_in_front_of_the_Byzantine_Emperor_Basil_II.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Serbs_and_Croats_in_front_of_the_Byzantine_Emperor_Basil_II.jpg/580px-Serbs_and_Croats_in_front_of_the_Byzantine_Emperor_Basil_II.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4160" data-file-height="3120" /></a><figcaption>Personifications of <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia">Croatia</a> in front of Basil II, painting by <a href="/wiki/Joakim_Markovi%C4%87" title="Joakim Marković">Joakim Marković</a>, 18th century.</figcaption></figure> An assessment of the reign in the eyes of the subsequent generations is given by Psellos:<blockquote>He crushed rebellions, subdued the feudal landowners, conquered the enemies of the Empire, notably in the Danubian provinces and the East. Everywhere the might of Roman arms was respected and feared. The treasury was overflowing with the accumulated plunder of Basil's campaigns. Even the lamp of learning, despite the emperor's known indifference, was burning still, if somewhat dimly. The lot of ordinary folk in Constantinople must have been pleasant enough. For most of them life was gay and colourful, and if the city's defensive fortifications were at some points in disrepair they had no cause to dread attacks.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESewter195312-144">[135]</a></blockquote> Basil II's reign is one of the most significant in Byzantine history. His constant military campaigns led to the zenith of Byzantine power in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECartwright2017-37">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWortley201028-145">[136]</a> The restoration of the Danubian frontier helped establish a more stable and secure border for the empire in Europe, maintaining a stronger barrier against <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Hungary" title="Principality of Hungary">Hungarian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pecheneg" class="mw-redirect" title="Pecheneg">Pecheneg</a> raiders. The conquest of Bulgaria and the submission of the <a href="/wiki/South_Slavs" title="South Slavs">South Slavs</a> created relative peace for the empire's Balkan lands, keeping larger cities—including Constantinople—safe from the previously frequent sieges and looting. Basil's military experience that allowed him to eventually turn the war against Bulgaria in the Byzantine Empire's favor were gained through the revolts of Phokas and Skleros in Anatolia that challenged his throne and sometimes got close to deposing him.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMango2002199-146">[137]</a> Basil's creation of the Varangian Guard provided him and his successors with an elite mercenary force capable of changing battle outcomes and boosting morale that became feared by the emperor's enemies.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlöndalBenedikz2007171-147">[138]</a> At this time, the <a href="/wiki/Macedonian_Renaissance" title="Macedonian Renaissance">Macedonian Renaissance</a> was taking effect, seeing the rise of <a href="/wiki/Classical_Greece" title="Classical Greece">classical Greek</a> scholarship being assimilated into <a href="/wiki/Christian_art" title="Christian art">Christian art</a> and the study of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_philosophy" title="Ancient Greek philosophy">ancient Greek philosophy</a> being widespread.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMango2002277-148">[139]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMagdalino2003256-149">[140]</a> The studies of these subjects, and the enlargement projects of the emperors, greatly expanded the library of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Constantinople" title="University of Constantinople">University of Constantinople</a>, which again established itself as the main source of learning for its day.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELawler2011118-150">[141]</a> Though he was not a man of literature, Basil was a relatively pious ruler who involved himself in the construction of churches, monasteries and, to some extent, cities.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2005280-151">[142]</a> Literary works, eulogies and poems were made by the great cities of the Byzantine Empire that mostly tried to juxtapose the classic past of kingdoms and empires with the new expansion of Basil II in which he was compared with many important figures of the east such as <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great" title="Cyrus the Great">Cyrus the Great</a> and <a href="/wiki/Artaxerxes_III" title="Artaxerxes III">Artaxerxes</a>.&#91;[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(December_2021)">page&nbsp;needed]]&#93;_152-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManafis2020[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_December_2021]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(December_2021)">page&nbsp;needed]]&#93;-152">[143]</a> He was also particularly compared with <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a> who was believed to be Basil's ancestor.&#91;[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(December_2021)">page&nbsp;needed]]&#93;_152-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManafis2020[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_December_2021]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(December_2021)">page&nbsp;needed]]&#93;-152">[143]</a> Classical works such as "<a href="/wiki/The_Persians" title="The Persians">The Persians</a>" by the ancient Greek tragedian <a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a> were among the most recited in the empire during the expansion given the different confrontations against the caliphates that the Byzantines indiscriminately and classically called "<a href="/wiki/Medes" title="Medes">Medes</a>".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMagdalino2004611–643-153">[144]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMoennin2016159–189-154">[145]</a> Despite the great expansion during his reign, his military and non-scholastic character led him to be criticized and related to the ancient <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Spartan</a> monarchs or tyrants who at that time were remembered for being men of action, cruelty and decision who, like Basil, paid little attention to promoting the arts or literary culture and preferred a military environment.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŠevčenko1968-155">[146]</a> Basil II lacked heirs<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMagdalino200366-156">[147]</a> due to the "dearth of cousins found within the <a href="/wiki/Macedonian_dynasty" title="Macedonian dynasty">Macedonian dynasty</a>",<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrubakerTougher2016313-48">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-158">[note 10]</a> so he was succeeded by his brother Constantine and his family, who proved to be ineffective rulers. Nevertheless, fifty years of prosperity and intellectual growth followed because the funds of state were full, the borders were safe from intruders, and the Empire remained the most powerful political entity of the age. At the end of Basil II's reign, the Byzantine Empire had a population of approximately 12 million people.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETreadgold1997570-159">[149]</a> Although they were beneficial, Basil's achievements were reversed very quickly. Many of the Georgian, Armenian and Fatimid campaigns were undone after the succession crisis and eventual civil war after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert" title="Battle of Manzikert">Battle of Manzikert</a> in 1071.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2005206-160">[150]</a> Because many of the empire's governors went to the capital with their soldiers to seize power after the capture of emperor <a href="/wiki/Romanos_IV" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanos IV">Romanos IV</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2005203-161">[151]</a> the Anatolian frontier was largely left undefended against the <a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Empire" title="Seljuk Empire">Seljuk Empire</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMango2002310-162">[152]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Normans" title="Normans">Normans</a> permanently pushed the Byzantines from Southern Italy in April 1071.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMango2002189-163">[153]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_views_and_depictions_in_literature">Modern views and depictions in literature</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Modern views and depictions in literature">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Seal_of_the_Greek-Macedonian_Committee.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Seal_of_the_Greek-Macedonian_Committee.jpg/220px-Seal_of_the_Greek-Macedonian_Committee.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Seal_of_the_Greek-Macedonian_Committee.jpg/330px-Seal_of_the_Greek-Macedonian_Committee.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Seal_of_the_Greek-Macedonian_Committee.jpg/440px-Seal_of_the_Greek-Macedonian_Committee.jpg 2x" data-file-width="715" data-file-height="736" /></a><figcaption>Seal of the <a href="/wiki/Macedonian_Committee" title="Macedonian Committee">Greek Macedonian Committee</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Macedonian_Struggle" title="Macedonian Struggle">Greek Struggle for Macedonia</a>, depicting Basil II (front) and <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Bulgarian commentator Alexander Kiossev wrote in Understanding the Balkans: "The hero [of] a nation might be the villain of its neighbour ... The Byzantine emperor Basil the Murderer of Bulgarians, a crucial Greek pantheon figure, is no less important as [a] subject of hatred for our national mythology".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKiossev2000-164">[154]</a> During the 20th century in Greece, interest in Basil II led to a number of biographies and historical novels about him. One of these is Basil Bulgaroktonos (1964) by historical fiction writer <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kostas_Kyriazis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kostas Kyriazis (page does not exist)">Kostas Kyriazis</a> [<a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CF%8E%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%9A%CF%85%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%82" class="extiw" title="el:Κώστας Κυριαζής">el</a>]. Written as a sequel to his previous work Theophano (1963) which focuses on Basil's mother, it examines Basil's life through three fictional narrators and has been continuously reprinted since 1964.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKyriazis1964-165">[155]</a> <a href="/wiki/Rosemary_Sutcliff" title="Rosemary Sutcliff">Rosemary Sutcliff</a>'s 1976 historical fiction novel <a href="/wiki/Blood_Feud_(novel)" title="Blood Feud (novel)">Blood Feud</a> depicts Basil II from the point of view of a member of his recently created Varangian Guard.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESutcliff1976-166">[156]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penelope_Delta" title="Penelope Delta">Penelope Delta</a>'s second novel <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ton_Kairo_tou_Voulgaroktonou&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ton Kairo tou Voulgaroktonou (page does not exist)">Ton Kairo tou Voulgaroktonou</a> (In the Years of the Bulgar-Slayer)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeaton1999103-167">[157]</a> is also set during the reign of Basil II.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson2000120-168">[158]</a> It was inspired by correspondence with the historian <a href="/wiki/Gustave_Schlumberger" title="Gustave Schlumberger">Gustave Schlumberger</a>, a renowned specialist on the Byzantine Empire, and published in the early years of the 20th century, a time when the <a href="/wiki/Struggle_for_Macedonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Struggle for Macedonia">Struggle for Macedonia</a> again set Greeks and Bulgarians in bitter enmity with each other.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDanforth1998-169">[159]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion_Dragoumis" title="Ion Dragoumis">Ion Dragoumis</a>, who was Delta's lover and was deeply involved in that struggle, in 1907 published the book <a href="/w/index.php?title=Martyron_kai_Iroon_Aima&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Martyron kai Iroon Aima (page does not exist)">Martyron kai Iroon Aima</a> (Martyrs' and Heroes' Blood), which is resentful towards anything remotely Bulgarian. He urges Greeks to follow the example of Basil II: "Instead of blinding so many people, Basil should have better killed them instead. On one hand these people would not suffer as eyeless survivors, on the other the sheer number of Bulgarians would have diminished by 15 000, which is something very useful." Later in the book, Dragoumis foresees the appearance of "new Basils" who would "cross the entire country and will look for Bulgarians in mountains, caves, villages and forests and will make them flee in refuge or kill them".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDragoumis1907-170">[160]</a></li> <li>Basil Basileus is a comic book series by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Theocharis_Spyros&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Theocharis Spyros (page does not exist)">Theocharis Spyros</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chrysa_Sakel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chrysa Sakel (page does not exist)">Chrysa Sakel</a>. The plot and illustration is based on academic bibliography. The story is set in the early years of Basil II, from the time of <a href="/wiki/John_I_Tzimiskes" title="John I Tzimiskes">John I Tzimiskes</a> and the formation of the <a href="/wiki/Varangian_Guard" title="Varangian Guard">Varangian Guard</a> until the final years of Basil II.<a href="#cite_note-171">[161]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Genealogy">Genealogy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Genealogy">edit</a>]</div> <table class="collapsible expanded" style="margin: 0.3em auto auto; clear:none; min-width:60em; width:auto; font-size:85%; border:1px solid #aaa"> <tbody><tr> <th style="padding:0.2em 0.3em 0.2em 4.3em;background:none; color: inherit; width:auto">Basil's immediate family and predecessors<a href="#cite_note-ODB-Genealogy-172">[162]</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center"> <table style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; margin: 0 auto;"> <tbody><tr style="height:1px;text-align:center"><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2" style="border:0px solid;padding:0.2em"><a href="/wiki/Constantine_VII" title="Constantine VII">Constantine VII</a></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;border-bottom:1px dashed;width:2em"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2" style="border:0px solid;padding:0.2em"><a href="/wiki/Helena_Lekapene" title="Helena Lekapene">Helena Lekapene</a></td></tr><tr style="height:1px;text-align:center"><td style="border-right:1px solid;height:1em;width:1em"></td><td style="height:1em;width:1em"></td></tr> <tr style="height:1px;text-align:center"><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" 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style="height:1em;width:1em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td style="border-right:1px solid;height:1em;width:1em"></td><td style="height:1em;width:1em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td style="border-right:1px solid;height:1em;width:1em"></td></tr> <tr style="height:1px;text-align:center"><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2" style="border:0px solid;padding:0.2em">Basil II</td><td 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ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> The <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a> were under communion as the <a href="/wiki/Chalcedonian_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Chalcedonian Church">Chalcedonian Church</a> until the <a href="/wiki/East-West_Schism" class="mw-redirect" title="East-West Schism">East-West Schism</a> of 16 July 1054.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESue2014-1">[1]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Regnal_number" title="Regnal number">Regnal numbers</a> were never used in the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>. Instead, the Byzantines used nicknames and <a href="/wiki/Patronymic" title="Patronymic">patronymics</a> to distinguish rulers of the same name. The numbering of <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_emperors" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine emperors">Byzantine emperors</a> is a purely historiographical invention, beginning with <a href="/wiki/Edward_Gibbon" title="Edward Gibbon">Edward Gibbon</a> in his <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire">History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFoss200593–102-3">[2]</a> In his lifetime and later, Basil was distinguished from his <a href="/wiki/Basil_I" title="Basil I">namesake predecessor</a> by the surnames the Younger (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: ὁ νέος, <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" title="Romanization of Greek">romanized</a>: ho neos) and, most often, the <a href="/wiki/Purple-born" class="mw-redirect" title="Purple-born">Purple-born</a> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: ὁ πορφυρογέννητος, <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" title="Romanization of Greek">romanized</a>: ho porphyrogénnetos).<a href="#cite_note-PMBZ-4">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson201066–80-5">[4]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a> Basil's <a href="/wiki/Political_mutilation_in_Byzantine_culture" title="Political mutilation in Byzantine culture">blinding</a> of Bulgarian prisoners after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kleidion" title="Battle of Kleidion">Battle of Kleidion</a>, although it may have been exaggerated, helped give rise to his epithet "the Bulgar Slayer" (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: ὁ Βουλγαροκτόνος, <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" title="Romanization of Greek">romanized</a>: ho Boulgaroktonos).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson200062-7">[5]</a> <a href="#CITEREFStephenson2000">Stephenson (2000</a>, p. 62) and <a href="#CITEREFMagdalino2003">Magdalino (2003</a>, p. 10) believe the epithet to have entered common usage among the Byzantines at the end of the 12th century, when the <a href="/wiki/Second_Bulgarian_Empire" title="Second Bulgarian Empire">Second Bulgarian Empire</a> broke away from Byzantine rule and Basil's martial exploits became a theme of Imperial propaganda. It was used by the historian <a href="/wiki/Niketas_Choniates" title="Niketas Choniates">Niketas Choniates</a> and the writer <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Mesarites" title="Nicholas Mesarites">Nicholas Mesarites</a>, and consciously inverted by the Bulgarian ruler <a href="/wiki/Kaloyan" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaloyan">Kaloyan</a>, who called himself "Roman-slayer" (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: Ρωμαιοκτόνος, <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" title="Romanization of Greek">romanized</a>: Rhomaioktonos).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson201089–96-8">[6]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a> The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empires</a> had a number of rulers named Constantine, many of whom are usually not counted using <a href="/wiki/Regnal_number" title="Regnal number">regnal numbers</a> because they were never senior or sole emperor. Five emperors named Constantine ruled during the <a href="/wiki/Macedonian_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Macedonian era">Macedonian era</a>: <a href="/wiki/Constantine_(son_of_Basil_I)" title="Constantine (son of Basil I)">Constantine</a>, the eldest son and co-ruler of <a href="/wiki/Basil_I" title="Basil I">Basil I</a>; <a href="/wiki/Constantine_VII" title="Constantine VII">Constantine VII</a> the <a href="/wiki/Porphyrogenitus" class="mw-redirect" title="Porphyrogenitus">Porphyrogenitus</a>; <a href="/wiki/Constantine_Lekapenos" title="Constantine Lekapenos">Constantine Lekapenos</a>, a son and co-ruler of <a href="/wiki/Romanos_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanos I">Romanos I</a>; <a href="/wiki/Constantine_VIII" title="Constantine VIII">Constantine VIII</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Constantine_IX_Monomachos" title="Constantine IX Monomachos">Constantine IX Monomachos</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFoss200593–102-3">[2]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Basil_Lekapenos" title="Basil Lekapenos">Basil Lekapenos</a>' control of power until 985 has caused some historians, such as <a href="#CITEREFAntonopoulouKotzabassiLoukaki2015">Antonopoulou, Kotzabassi & Loukaki (2015</a>, p. 274) and <a href="#CITEREFSchulman2002">Schulman (2002</a>, p. 51) to date Basil II's reign from 985 to 1025, although these are only exceptions. </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a> Basil II technically "ruled" as senior emperor for 5 months in 963, between the death of <a href="/wiki/Romanos_II" title="Romanos II">Romanos II</a> (15 March) and the coronation of <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikephoros II">Nikephoros II</a> (16 August). This would give him a total reign of 50 years and 4 months, although these months in 963 are usually not counted as part of his actual reign.<a href="#cite_note-PMBZ-4">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhittow1996348-12">[7]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-108"><a href="#cite_ref-108">^</a> These portraits of Basil II and Constantine VIII are generally believed to be reliable.<a href="#cite_note-ODB-ConstantineVIII-31">[25]</a> Constantine is portrayed as having a longer beard, which coincides with how he's depicted in later coinage.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpatharákīs197691−95-107">[101]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-111"><a href="#cite_ref-111">^</a> The <a href="/wiki/Edict_on_Maximum_Prices" title="Edict on Maximum Prices">Edict on Maximum Prices</a> issued during <a href="/wiki/Diocletian" title="Diocletian">Diocletian</a>'s reign placed the cost on carpets from <a href="/wiki/Cappadocia" title="Cappadocia">Cappadocia</a> "at 3000 <a href="/wiki/Denarii" class="mw-redirect" title="Denarii">denarii</a>, a price 30-fold the cost of a <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_units_of_measurement#Dry_measure" title="Ancient Roman units of measurement">modios</a> of wheat and thus approximately the value of perhaps two middle Byzantine <a href="/wiki/Nomismata" class="mw-redirect" title="Nomismata">nomismata</a>".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooperDecker201296-110">[103]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-140"><a href="#cite_ref-140">^</a> This is the universally accepted date for Basil's death.<a href="#cite_note-PMBZ-4">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-ODB-21">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHussey1998-134">[126]</a> The date is found in the <a href="/wiki/Skylitzes" class="mw-redirect" title="Skylitzes">Skylitzes</a>' (and <a href="/wiki/Cedrenus" class="mw-redirect" title="Cedrenus">Cedrenus</a>') chronicle archived in the <a href="/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France" title="Bibliothèque nationale de France">Bibliothèque nationale de France</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThurn1973868_(note_84)-135">[127]</a> Two latter copies, from the 15th century, give 12 December.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThurn1973868_(note_84)-135">[127]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiner1975158._Δεκεμβρίου_[[Greek_numerals|ιβ']]-136">[128]</a> Two others, from the 13th century, give 13 December.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrierson196258-137">[129]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiner1975165._Δεκεμβρίου_[[Greek_numerals|ιγ']]-138">[130]</a> The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nbkVAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA479">1839 edition</a> of the <a href="/wiki/CSHB" class="mw-redirect" title="CSHB">CSHB</a> uses the Paris manuscript, but forgets to translate the full date (Δεκεμβρίῳ γὰρ μηνί <a href="/wiki/Greek_numerals" title="Greek numerals">ιεʹ</a>), a mistake that is repeated in the 2010 translation.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWortley2010348-139">[131]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-158"><a href="#cite_ref-158">^</a> Basil's father; grandfather, <a href="/wiki/Constantine_VII" title="Constantine VII">Constantine VII</a>; and great-grandfather, <a href="/wiki/Leo_VI_the_Wise" title="Leo VI the Wise">Leo VI</a>, each had either no siblings or childless siblings.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrubakerTougher2016313-48">[42]</a> Basil himself was unmarried<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESewter195329–30-157">[148]</a> and childless,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrubakerTougher2016313-48">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESewter195329–30-157">[148]</a> and his brother <a href="/wiki/Constantine_VIII" title="Constantine VIII">Constantine VIII</a>'s three daughters—Eudokia, <a href="/wiki/Zo%C3%AB_Porphyrogenita" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoë Porphyrogenita">Zoë</a> and <a href="/wiki/Theodora_Porphyrogenita" title="Theodora Porphyrogenita">Theodora</a>—all remained childless as well.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrubakerTougher2016313-48">[42]</a> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_II&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESue2014-1"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESue2014_1-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFSue2014">Sue 2014</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFoss200593–102-3">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFoss200593–102_3-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFoss200593–102_3-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFFoss2005">Foss 2005</a>, pp. 93–102. </li> <li id="cite_note-PMBZ-4">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PMBZ_4-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-PMBZ_4-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-PMBZ_4-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-PMBZ_4-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-PMBZ_4-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-PMBZ_4-5">f</a> <a href="#CITEREFPMBZ">PMBZ</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/PMBZ/PMBZ22991">Basileios II. (#20838)</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson201066–80-5"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStephenson201066–80_5-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFStephenson2010">Stephenson 2010</a>, pp. 66–80. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson200062-7"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStephenson200062_7-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFStephenson2000">Stephenson 2000</a>, p. 62. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson201089–96-8"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStephenson201089–96_8-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFStephenson2010">Stephenson 2010</a>, pp. 89–96. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhittow1996348-12">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhittow1996348_12-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhittow1996348_12-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFWhittow1996">Whittow 1996</a>, p. 348. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESewter195348–49-14"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESewter195348–49_14-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFSewter1953">Sewter 1953</a>, pp. 48–49. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHead1980233–234-15"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHead1980233–234_15-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHead1980">Head 1980</a>, pp. 233–234. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESewter195345–46-16"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESewter195345–46_16-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFSewter1953">Sewter 1953</a>, pp. 45–46. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESewter195343–44-17"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESewter195343–44_17-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFSewter1953">Sewter 1953</a>, pp. 43–44. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFinlay1856427-18"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFinlay1856427_18-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFFinlay1856">Finlay 1856</a>, p. 427. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENorwich1997216-19"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorwich1997216_19-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFNorwich1997">Norwich 1997</a>, p. 216. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPBW2016-20"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPBW2016_20-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFPBW2016">PBW 2016</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-ODB-21">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ODB_21-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ODB_21-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFODB">ODB</a>, "Basil II" (C.M. Brand, A. Cutler), pp. 261–2. </li> <li id="cite_note-PMBZ-RomanosII-22">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PMBZ-RomanosII_22-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-PMBZ-RomanosII_22-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFPMBZ">PMBZ</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/PMBZ/PMBZ28988">Romanos II. (#26834)</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes200593–94-23"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes200593–94_23-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHolmes2005">Holmes 2005</a>, p. 93–94. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEODB"Porphyrogennetos"_(M._McCormack),_p._1701-24"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEODB"Porphyrogennetos"_(M._McCormack),_p._1701_24-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFODB">ODB</a>, "Porphyrogennetos" (M. McCormack), p. 1701. </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a> <ul><li><a href="#CITEREFMcCabe1913">McCabe 1913</a>, p. 140</li> <li><a href="#CITEREFTalbotSullivan2005">Talbot & Sullivan 2005</a>, pp. 99–100</li> <li><a href="#CITEREFVogt1923a">Vogt 1923a</a>, pp. 67–68</li> <li><a href="#CITEREFDurantDurant1950">Durant & Durant 1950</a>, p. 429</li> <li><a href="#CITEREFGarland2002">Garland 2002</a>, pp. 126, 128</li></ul> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBréhier1977127-26"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBréhier1977127_26-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBréhier1977">Bréhier 1977</a>, p. 127. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDiehl1927C-207-27"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDiehl1927C-207_27-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFDiehl1927">Diehl 1927</a>, p. C-207. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller192147-28"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller192147_28-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMiller1921">Miller 1921</a>, p. 47. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarland2002128,_271_(note_13)-29"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarland2002128,_271_(note_13)_29-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFGarland2002">Garland 2002</a>, pp. 128, 271 (note 13). </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETreadgold1997494-30"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETreadgold1997494_30-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFTreadgold1997">Treadgold 1997</a>, p. 494. </li> <li id="cite_note-ODB-ConstantineVIII-31">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ODB-ConstantineVIII_31-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ODB-ConstantineVIII_31-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFODB">ODB</a>, "Constantine VIII" (C. M. Brand, A. Cutler), pp. 503–504. </li> <li id="cite_note-PMBZ-ConstantineVIII-32"><a href="#cite_ref-PMBZ-ConstantineVIII_32-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFPMBZ">PMBZ</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/PMBZ/PMBZ25889">Konstantinos VIII. (#23735)</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-ODB-Anna-33"><a href="#cite_ref-ODB-Anna_33-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFODB">ODB</a>, "Anna" (A. Poppe), p. 103. </li> <li id="cite_note-PMBZ-Anna-34"><a href="#cite_ref-PMBZ-Anna_34-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFPMBZ">PMBZ</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/PMBZ/PMBZ22589">Anna (#20436)</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarland2002128-35">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarland2002128_35-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarland2002128_35-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarland2002128_35-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarland2002128_35-3">d</a> <a href="#CITEREFGarland2002">Garland 2002</a>, p. 128. </li> <li id="cite_note-PMBZ-Theophano-36">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PMBZ-Theophano_36-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-PMBZ-Theophano_36-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFPMBZ">PMBZ</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/PMBZ/PMBZ30280">Theophano (#28125)</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECartwright2017-37">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECartwright2017_37-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECartwright2017_37-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECartwright2017_37-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECartwright2017_37-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECartwright2017_37-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECartwright2017_37-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECartwright2017_37-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECartwright2017_37-7">h</a> <a href="#CITEREFCartwright2017">Cartwright 2017</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETreadgold1997495–498-38">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETreadgold1997495–498_38-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETreadgold1997495–498_38-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFTreadgold1997">Treadgold 1997</a>, pp. 495–498. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEStephenson201034-39"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStephenson201034_39-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFStephenson2010">Stephenson 2010</a>, p. 34. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBury1911476-40">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBury1911476_40-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBury1911476_40-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBury1911476_40-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBury1911476_40-3">d</a> <a href="#CITEREFBury1911">Bury 1911</a>, p. 476. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003-41">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003_41-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003_41-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003_41-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003_41-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003_41-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003_41-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003_41-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003_41-7">h</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003_41-8">i</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003_41-9">j</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes2003_41-10">k</a> <a href="#CITEREFHolmes2003">Holmes 2003</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEODB"Basil_the_Nothos"_(A._Kazhdan,_A._Cutler),_p._270-42"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEODB"Basil_the_Nothos"_(A._Kazhdan,_A._Cutler),_p._270_42-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFODB">ODB</a>, "Basil the Nothos" (A. Kazhdan, A. 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title="Principate">Principate</a> 27 BC – AD 235</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiberius" title="Tiberius">Tiberius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caligula" title="Caligula">Caligula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claudius" title="Claudius">Claudius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nero" title="Nero">Nero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galba" title="Galba">Galba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otho" title="Otho">Otho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vitellius" title="Vitellius">Vitellius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vespasian" title="Vespasian">Vespasian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titus" title="Titus">Titus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Domitian" title="Domitian">Domitian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nerva" title="Nerva">Nerva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trajan" title="Trajan">Trajan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadrian" title="Hadrian">Hadrian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoninus_Pius" title="Antoninus Pius">Antoninus Pius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" title="Marcus Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Verus" title="Lucius Verus">Lucius Verus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commodus" title="Commodus">Commodus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pertinax" title="Pertinax">Pertinax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Didius_Julianus" title="Didius Julianus">Didius Julianus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Septimius_Severus" title="Septimius Severus">Septimius Severus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caracalla" title="Caracalla">Caracalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geta_(emperor)" title="Geta (emperor)">Geta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macrinus" title="Macrinus">Macrinus</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Diadumenian" title="Diadumenian">Diadumenian</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elagabalus" title="Elagabalus">Elagabalus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Severus_Alexander" title="Severus Alexander">Severus Alexander</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century" title="Crisis of the Third Century">Crisis</a> 235–284</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maximinus_Thrax" title="Maximinus Thrax">Maximinus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordian_I" title="Gordian I">Gordian I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordian_II" title="Gordian II">Gordian II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pupienus" title="Pupienus">Pupienus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balbinus" title="Balbinus">Balbinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordian_III" title="Gordian III">Gordian III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_the_Arab" title="Philip the Arab">Philip I</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Philip_II_(Roman_emperor)" title="Philip II (Roman emperor)">Philip II</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decius" title="Decius">Decius</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Herennius_Etruscus" title="Herennius Etruscus">Herennius Etruscus</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trebonianus_Gallus" title="Trebonianus Gallus">Trebonianus Gallus</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Hostilian" title="Hostilian">Hostilian</a> & <a href="/wiki/Volusianus" title="Volusianus">Volusianus</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aemilianus" title="Aemilianus">Aemilianus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silbannacus" title="Silbannacus">Silbannacus</a> (?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valerian_(emperor)" title="Valerian (emperor)">Valerian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gallienus" title="Gallienus">Gallienus</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Saloninus" title="Saloninus">Saloninus</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claudius_Gothicus" title="Claudius Gothicus">Claudius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintillus" title="Quintillus">Quintillus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurelian" title="Aurelian">Aurelian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tacitus_(emperor)" title="Tacitus (emperor)">Tacitus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Florianus" title="Florianus">Florianus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Probus_(emperor)" title="Probus (emperor)">Probus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carus" title="Carus">Carus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carinus" title="Carinus">Carinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Numerian" title="Numerian">Numerian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dominate" title="Dominate">Dominate</a> 284–641</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Diocletian" title="Diocletian">Diocletian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximian" title="Maximian">Maximian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galerius" title="Galerius">Galerius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantius_Chlorus" title="Constantius Chlorus">Constantius I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Severus_II" title="Severus II">Severus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_the_Great" title="Constantine the Great">Constantine I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maxentius" title="Maxentius">Maxentius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Licinius" title="Licinius">Licinius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximinus_Daza" title="Maximinus Daza">Maximinus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valerius_Valens" title="Valerius Valens">Valerius Valens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martinian_(emperor)" title="Martinian (emperor)">Martinian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_II_(emperor)" title="Constantine II (emperor)">Constantine II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantius_II" title="Constantius II">Constantius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constans" title="Constans">Constans I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnentius" title="Magnentius">Magnentius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepotianus" title="Nepotianus">Nepotianus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vetranio" title="Vetranio">Vetranio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julian_(emperor)" title="Julian (emperor)">Julian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jovian_(emperor)" title="Jovian (emperor)">Jovian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valentinian_I" title="Valentinian I">Valentinian I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valens" title="Valens">Valens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Procopius_(usurper)" title="Procopius (usurper)">Procopius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gratian" title="Gratian">Gratian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodosius_I" title="Theodosius I">Theodosius I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valentinian_II" title="Valentinian II">Valentinian II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnus_Maximus" title="Magnus Maximus">Magnus Maximus</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Victor_(emperor)" title="Victor (emperor)">Victor</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugenius" title="Eugenius">Eugenius</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Western_Roman_Empire" title="Western Roman Empire">Western Empire</a> 395–476</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Honorius_(emperor)" title="Honorius (emperor)">Honorius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_III_(Western_Roman_emperor)" title="Constantine III (Western Roman emperor)">Constantine III</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Constans_II_(son_of_Constantine_III)" title="Constans II (son of Constantine III)">Constans II</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priscus_Attalus" title="Priscus Attalus">Priscus Attalus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantius_III" title="Constantius III">Constantius III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joannes" title="Joannes">Joannes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valentinian_III" title="Valentinian III">Valentinian III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petronius_Maximus" title="Petronius Maximus">Petronius Maximus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avitus" title="Avitus">Avitus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Majorian" title="Majorian">Majorian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libius_Severus" title="Libius Severus">Severus III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthemius" title="Anthemius">Anthemius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olybrius" title="Olybrius">Olybrius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glycerius" title="Glycerius">Glycerius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Nepos" title="Julius Nepos">Julius Nepos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romulus_Augustulus" title="Romulus Augustulus">Romulus Augustulus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Eastern Empire</a> 395–641</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arcadius" title="Arcadius">Arcadius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodosius_II" title="Theodosius II">Theodosius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcian" title="Marcian">Marcian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_I_(emperor)" title="Leo I (emperor)">Leo I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_II_(emperor)" title="Leo II (emperor)">Leo II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeno_(emperor)" title="Zeno (emperor)">Zeno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basiliscus" title="Basiliscus">Basiliscus</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Marcus_(son_of_Basiliscus)" title="Marcus (son of Basiliscus)">Marcus</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anastasius_I_Dicorus" title="Anastasius I Dicorus">Anastasius I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justin_I" title="Justin I">Justin I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justinian_I" title="Justinian I">Justinian I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justin_II" title="Justin II">Justin II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiberius_II_Constantine" title="Tiberius II Constantine">Tiberius II Constantine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_(emperor)" title="Maurice (emperor)">Maurice</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Theodosius_(son_of_Maurice)" title="Theodosius (son of Maurice)">Theodosius</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phocas" title="Phocas">Phocas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heraclius" title="Heraclius">Heraclius</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Eastern/ Byzantine Empire</a> 641–1453</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heraclius_Constantine" title="Heraclius Constantine">Constantine III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heraclonas" title="Heraclonas">Heraclonas</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/David_(son_of_Heraclius)" title="David (son of Heraclius)">Tiberius</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constans_II" title="Constans II">Constans II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_IV" title="Constantine IV">Constantine IV</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Heraclius_(son_of_Constans_II)" title="Heraclius (son of Constans II)">Heraclius</a> & <a href="/wiki/Tiberius_(son_of_Constans_II)" title="Tiberius (son of Constans II)">Tiberius</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justinian_II" title="Justinian II">Justinian II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leontius" title="Leontius">Leontius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiberius_III" title="Tiberius III">Tiberius III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justinian_II" title="Justinian II">Justinian II</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Tiberius_(son_of_Justinian_II)" title="Tiberius (son of Justinian II)">Tiberius</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippicus" title="Philippicus">Philippicus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anastasius_II_(emperor)" title="Anastasius II (emperor)">Anastasius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodosius_III" title="Theodosius III">Theodosius III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_III_the_Isaurian" title="Leo III the Isaurian">Leo III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_V" title="Constantine V">Constantine V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artabasdos" title="Artabasdos">Artabasdos</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_(son_of_Artabasdos)" title="Nikephoros (son of Artabasdos)">Nikephoros</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_IV_the_Khazar" title="Leo IV the Khazar">Leo IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_VI" title="Constantine VI">Constantine VI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irene_of_Athens" title="Irene of Athens">Irene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_I" title="Nikephoros I">Nikephoros I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staurakios" title="Staurakios">Staurakios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_I_Rangabe" title="Michael I Rangabe">Michael I Rangabe</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Theophylact_(son_of_Michael_I)" title="Theophylact (son of Michael I)">Theophylact</a> & <a href="/wiki/Staurakios_(son_of_Michael_I)" class="mw-redirect" title="Staurakios (son of Michael I)">Staurakios</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_V_the_Armenian" title="Leo V the Armenian">Leo V</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Constantine_(son_of_Leo_V)" title="Constantine (son of Leo V)">Constantine</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_II" title="Michael II">Michael II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theophilos_(emperor)" title="Theophilos (emperor)">Theophilos</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Constantine_(son_of_Theophilos)" title="Constantine (son of Theophilos)">Constantine</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodora_(wife_of_Theophilos)" title="Theodora (wife of Theophilos)">Theodora (II)</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Thekla_(daughter_of_Theophilos)" title="Thekla (daughter of Theophilos)">Thekla</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_III" title="Michael III">Michael III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basil_I" title="Basil I">Basil I</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Constantine_(son_of_Basil_I)" title="Constantine (son of Basil I)">Constantine</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_VI_the_Wise" title="Leo VI the Wise">Leo VI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_(Byzantine_emperor)" title="Alexander (Byzantine emperor)">Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_VII" title="Constantine VII">Constantine VII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanos_I_Lekapenos" title="Romanos I Lekapenos">Romanos I Lekapenos</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Lekapenos" title="Christopher Lekapenos">Christopher</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Lekapenos" title="Stephen Lekapenos">Stephen</a> & <a href="/wiki/Constantine_Lekapenos" title="Constantine Lekapenos">Constantine Lekapenos</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanos_II" title="Romanos II">Romanos II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas" title="Nikephoros II Phokas">Nikephoros II Phokas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_I_Tzimiskes" title="John I Tzimiskes">John I Tzimiskes</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Basil II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_VIII" title="Constantine VIII">Constantine VIII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoe_Porphyrogenita" title="Zoe Porphyrogenita">Zoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanos_III_Argyros" title="Romanos III Argyros">Romanos III Argyros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_IV_the_Paphlagonian" title="Michael IV the Paphlagonian">Michael IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_V_Kalaphates" title="Michael V Kalaphates">Michael V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_IX_Monomachos" title="Constantine IX Monomachos">Constantine IX Monomachos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodora_Porphyrogenita" title="Theodora Porphyrogenita">Theodora (III)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_VI_Bringas" title="Michael VI Bringas">Michael VI Bringas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_I_Komnenos" title="Isaac I Komnenos">Isaac I Komnenos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_X_Doukas" title="Constantine X Doukas">Constantine X Doukas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eudokia_Makrembolitissa" title="Eudokia Makrembolitissa">Eudokia Makrembolitissa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanos_IV_Diogenes" title="Romanos IV Diogenes">Romanos IV Diogenes</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Leo_Diogenes" title="Leo Diogenes">Leo</a> & <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_Diogenes" title="Nikephoros Diogenes">Nikephoros</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_VII_Doukas" title="Michael VII Doukas">Michael VII Doukas</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Andronikos_Doukas_(co-emperor)" title="Andronikos Doukas (co-emperor)">Andronikos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Konstantios_Doukas" title="Konstantios Doukas">Konstantios</a> & <a href="/wiki/Constantine_Doukas_(co-emperor)" title="Constantine Doukas (co-emperor)">Constantine Doukas</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_III_Botaneiates" title="Nikephoros III Botaneiates">Nikephoros III Botaneiates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexios_I_Komnenos" title="Alexios I Komnenos">Alexios I Komnenos</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Constantine_Doukas_(co-emperor)" title="Constantine Doukas (co-emperor)">Constantine Doukas</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_II_Komnenos" title="John II Komnenos">John II Komnenos</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Alexios_Komnenos_(co-emperor)" title="Alexios Komnenos (co-emperor)">Alexios</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_I_Komnenos" title="Manuel I Komnenos">Manuel I Komnenos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexios_II_Komnenos" title="Alexios II Komnenos">Alexios II Komnenos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andronikos_I_Komnenos" title="Andronikos I Komnenos">Andronikos I Komnenos</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/John_Komnenos_(son_of_Andronikos_I)" title="John Komnenos (son of Andronikos I)">John</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_II_Angelos" title="Isaac II Angelos">Isaac II Angelos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexios_III_Angelos" title="Alexios III Angelos">Alexios III Angelos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexios_IV_Angelos" title="Alexios IV Angelos">Alexios IV Angelos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexios_V_Doukas" title="Alexios V Doukas">Alexios V Doukas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_I_Laskaris" title="Theodore I Laskaris">Theodore I Laskaris</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Laskaris_(son_of_Theodore_I)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholas Laskaris (son of Theodore I)">Nicholas</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_III_Vatatzes" class="mw-redirect" title="John III Vatatzes">John III Vatatzes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_II_Laskaris" title="Theodore II Laskaris">Theodore II Laskaris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_IV_Laskaris" title="John IV Laskaris">John IV Laskaris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_VIII_Palaiologos" title="Michael VIII Palaiologos">Michael VIII Palaiologos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andronikos_II_Palaiologos" title="Andronikos II Palaiologos">Andronikos II Palaiologos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_IX_Palaiologos" title="Michael IX Palaiologos">Michael IX Palaiologos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andronikos_III_Palaiologos" title="Andronikos III Palaiologos">Andronikos III Palaiologos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_V_Palaiologos" title="John V Palaiologos">John V Palaiologos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_VI_Kantakouzenos" title="John VI Kantakouzenos">John VI Kantakouzenos</a> (w. <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Kantakouzenos" title="Matthew Kantakouzenos">Matthew</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andronikos_IV_Palaiologos" title="Andronikos IV Palaiologos">Andronikos IV Palaiologos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_VII_Palaiologos" title="John VII Palaiologos">John VII Palaiologos</a> (w. <a 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