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Resentful at the slight,
Bourtzes joined forces with the
conspirators who ********inated
Phokas a few w****s later.
Bourtzes re-appears in a
prominent role...
-
began when he
dismissed Michael Bourtzes from his
position following his
disobedience in the
siege of Antioch.
Bourtzes was disgraced, and he
would soon...
-
installed Michael Bourtzes as its commander,
instructing him and
Petros to lay
siege to Antioch.
Nikephoros explicitly forbade Bourtzes from
taking Antioch...
-
September scored a
major victory at the
Battle of the
Orontes against Bourtzes.
Bourtzes'
defeat forced Basil to
intervene personally in the East; with his...
-
September 994
between the
Byzantines and
their Hamdanid allies under Michael Bourtzes against the
forces of the
Fatimid vizier of Damascus, the
Turkish general...
-
after the
siege of
Antioch (968–969) by the
Byzantine general Michael Bourtzes and the
stratopedarches Peter. It soon
became the seat of a doux, the civil...
- Nikephoros' wife
Theophano and a
number of
disgruntled leading generals (Michael
Bourtzes and Leo Balantes) to ********inate Nikephoros.
After his
coronation in December...
- who had just been
dismissed as doux of Antioch; the
vestarches Michael Bourtzes,
whose namesake grandfather had
captured Antioch for
Byzantium a century...
- then
besieging Antioch with
Michael Bourtzes.
Following the
capture of
Antioch on
October 28, 969,
Petros and
Bourtzes made
their way to Aleppo, defeating...
-
Thrace with impunity. In June 1050,
another Byzantine army
under Samuel Bourtzes was destro**** by the Pechenegs. In this battle, the
general David Arianites...
