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- Leo the Deacon (Greek: Λέων ο Διάκονος; born c. 950) was a Byzantine Greek historian and chronicler. He was born around 950 at Kaloe in Asia Minor, and...2 KB (201 words) - 01:14, 23 October 2024
John I Tzimiskes (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)either from the Armenian Chmushkik (Չմշկիկ), meaning "red boot", or from an Armenian word for "short stature", as explained by Leo the Deacon. A more favorable...17 KB (1,733 words) - 20:38, 23 October 2024
Siege of Chandax (category 960s in the Byzantine Empire)the Byzantine reconquest of Crete: the history of Leo the Deacon, the poem The Capture of Crete of Theodosios the Deacon, and the continuation to the...21 KB (2,974 words) - 00:49, 3 October 2024
venture to sleep above ground." — Dawkins (1916)(p 16) "The tenth-century historian Leo the Deacon records a journey to Cappadocia made by Nikephoros Phokas...19 KB (2,163 words) - 15:55, 16 January 2025
Kievan Rus' (redirect from The Kievan Rus')Thompson. p.482. The University of Chicago Press, 1938 Leo the Deacon, The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century (Alice-Mary...113 KB (12,446 words) - 18:46, 15 January 2025
Olga of Kiev (redirect from Olga the Beauty)their territory, the Drevlians murdered Igor. According to the Byzantine chronicler Leo the Deacon, Igor's death was caused by a gruesome act of torture in...50 KB (5,826 words) - 10:19, 8 January 2025- (disambiguation) Leo the Deacon (c. 950–?), Byzantine Greek historian and chronicler Nicanor the Deacon (died 76), martyr and one of the Seven Deacons Nicolas the Deacon...1 KB (189 words) - 20:35, 9 February 2024
- Thessaly. Achilles was described by Leo the Deacon (born ca. 950) not as Hellene, but as Scythian, while according to the Byzantine author John Malalas (c...10 KB (916 words) - 22:13, 28 October 2024
Basil II (redirect from Basil the Bulgar Slayer)death was commonly thought at the time to be the result of poisoning with hemlock; the chroniclers Leo the Deacon and John Skylitzes imply that Theophano was...78 KB (9,275 words) - 07:57, 11 January 2025
Igor of Kiev (redirect from Igor the Old)killed while collecting tribute from the Drevlians in 945. The Byzantine historian and chronicler Leo the Deacon (born c. 950) describes how Igor met...10 KB (1,019 words) - 18:21, 16 December 2024
Nikephoros II Phokas (category Burials at the Church of the Holy Apostles)lying a Ulysses. Whereas Bishop Liutprand describes the emperor's hair as being bristly, Leo the Deacon says it was black with "tight curls" and "unusually...33 KB (4,113 words) - 19:27, 17 January 2025- Battle of Arcadiopolis (970) (category Battles involving the Byzantine Empire)accounts on the Byzantine side differ on the preliminaries of the battle: Leo the Deacon reports that Skleros sent a scouting detachment ahead under the patrikios...18 KB (2,090 words) - 16:06, 19 January 2025
Battle of Andrassos (category Battles of the Arab–Byzantine wars)The Battle of Andrassos or Adrassos was fought on 8 November 960 between the Byzantines, led by Leo Phokas the Younger, and the forces of the Hamdanid...25 KB (3,415 words) - 16:23, 8 November 2024
Sviatoslav I (redirect from Sviatoslav I the Brave)described very clearly by Leo the Deacon, who himself attended the meeting of Sviatoslav with John I Tzimiskes. Following Deacon's memories, Sviatoslav was...42 KB (4,970 words) - 19:05, 28 December 2024
Achilles (category Kings of the Myrmidons)described by the Byzantine chronicler Leo the Deacon, not as Hellene, but as Scythian, while according to the Byzantine author John Malalas, his army was...81 KB (10,170 words) - 00:53, 19 January 2025
Kirsch sees this commission as a proof of the confidence placed in the able deacon by the Imperial Court. During Leo's absence in Gaul, Pope Sixtus III died...40 KB (5,089 words) - 11:23, 21 January 2025
Siege of Dorostolon (category Sieges involving the Byzantine Empire)astonished at finding the bodies of armed women among the fallen warriors. The siege is described in detail by John Skylitzes and Leo the Deacon, although some...6 KB (611 words) - 23:15, 25 November 2024
Cambridge University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-521-15477-2. The tenth-century historian Leo the Deacon records a journey to Cappadocia made by Nikephoros Phokas...13 KB (1,559 words) - 18:19, 5 December 2024
Immortals (Byzantine Empire) (category Military units and formations established in the 10th century)imperial bodyguard, the Hetaireia. The contemporary historian Leo the Deacon describes the Athanatoi as heavily armoured shock cavalry, "sheathed in armour"...5 KB (627 words) - 17:19, 27 October 2024- joined the expedition and went on to fight in a number of engagements during the Siege of Dorostolon. According to Leo the Deacon, during a sally of the besieged...3 KB (380 words) - 02:18, 31 October 2024
- periods of the later Empire. For the reigns of Nicephorus Phocas and John Zimisces, Leo the Deacon is the one source, the only contemporary historian, from
- I know is, that Queequeg here is a born member of the First Congregational Church. He is a deacon himself, Queequeg is.” “Young man,” said Bildad sternly
- Celestine I Sixtus III Saint Leo I the Great Saint Hilarius Simplicius Felix III Gelasius I Anastasius II Symmachus He was the son of Fortunatus and a native