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Michael of Synnada (519 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Michael of Synnada or Michael the Confessor (Greek: Μιχαὴλ ὁ ὁμολογητής; died 23 May 826) was a metropolitan bishop of Synnada from 784/7 to 815. He represented

George Maniakes (758 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

George Maniakes (Greek: Γεώργιος Μανιάκης; Italian: Giorgio Maniace; died 1043) was a prominent general of the Byzantine Empire during the 11th century

Battle of Garigliano (587 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Battle of Garigliano was fought in 915 between Christian forces and the Saracens. Pope John X personally led the Christian forces into battle. The

Leo IV the Khazar (768 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Leo IV the Khazar (Greek: Λέων ὁ Χάζαρος, Leōn ho Khazaros; 25 January 750 – 8 September 780) was Byzantine emperor from 775 to 780 AD. He was born to

Asad ibn al-Furat (258 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Asad Ibn Al-Furat (Arabic: أسد بن الفرات; c.759 – c.828) was a Muslim jurist and theologian in Ifriqiya, who played an important role in the Arab conquest

Giustiniano Participazio (483 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Giustiniano Participazio (Latin: Agnellus Iustinianus Particiacus; died 829) was the eleventh (traditional) or ninth (historical) Doge of Venice from 825

John Kaminiates (524 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Kaminiates (Greek: Ιωάννης Καμινιάτης, fl. tenth century) was a Greek resident of Thessalonica when the city, then one of the largest in the Byzantine

Leo Phokas the Younger (440 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Leo Phokas or Phocas (Greek: Λέων Φωκᾶς, c. 915–920 – after 971) was a prominent Byzantine general who scored a number of successes in the eastern frontier

Leo Apostyppes (338 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Leo Apostyppes or Apostoupes (Greek: Λέων ὁ Ἀποστύππης/Ἀποστούπης) was a Byzantine military leader active in the 880s. He appears in 880, as military governor

Manjutakin (823 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Manjutakin (Arabic: منجوتكين) was a military slave (ghulam) of the Fatimid Caliph al-Aziz (r. 975–996). Of Turkic origin, he became one of the leading

Tervel of Bulgaria (1,591 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Caesar Tervel (Bulgarian: Тервел), also called Tarvel, Terval, or Terbelis in Byzantine sources, was the ruler Caesar of Bulgaria during the First Bulgarian

Bakjur (915 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bakjur was a Circassian military slave (mamluk or ghulam) who served the Hamdanids of Aleppo and later the Fatimids of Egypt. He seized control of Aleppo

Battle of Caltavuturo (511 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Battle of Caltavuturo was fought in 881 or 882 between the Byzantine Empire and the Aghlabid emirate of Ifriqiya, during the Muslim conquest of Sicily

Umar al-Aqta (1,339 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

general John Kourkouas in 934. Like many other protagonists of the Arab–Byzantine Wars, ʿUmar figures in both Arab and Byzantine legend. In the Arab epic

John I Tzimiskes (1,735 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John I Tzimiskes (Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Τζιμισκής, romanized: Iōánnēs ho Tzimiskēs; c. 925 – 10 January 976) was the senior Byzantine emperor from 969 to 976

Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan (959 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan ibn Harb ibn Umayya (Arabic: يزيد بن أبي سفيان بن حرب بن أمية, romanized: Yazīd ibn Abī Sufyān ibn Ḥarb ibn Umayya; died 639) was

Muhammad ibn Marwan (748 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad ibn Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam (Arabic: محمد بن مروان) (died 719/720) was an Umayyad prince and one of the most important generals

Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (1,713 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Tamim Ma'ad al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (Arabic: أبو تميم معد المعزّ لدين الله, romanized: Abū Tamīm Maʿad al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh, lit. 'Glorifier of the

Theodore (brother of Heraclius) (899 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Theodore (Latin: Theodorus, Greek: Θεόδωρος; fl. c. 610 – 636) was the brother (or half-brother) of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius (r. 610–641), a curopalates

Marianos Argyros (1,651 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marianos Argyros (Greek: Μαριανός Ἀργυρός, fl. 944 – 16 August 963) was a Byzantine aristocrat and member of the Argyros family. A monk, in 944 he supported

Niketas Ooryphas (664 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Niketas Oryphas or Oöryphas (Ancient Greek: Νικήτας ὁ Ὀρύφας or Ὠορυφᾶς, fl. 860–873) was a distinguished Byzantine official, patrikios, and admiral under

Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (1,521 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (Arabic: أبو أيوب الأنصاري, romanized: Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī, Turkish: Ebu Eyyûb el-Ensarî, died c. 674) — born Khalid ibn Zayd ibn Kulayb

Abu Firas al-Hamdani (1,380 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Harith ibn Abi’l-ʿAlaʾ Saʿid ibn Hamdan al-Taghlibi (932–968), better known by his pen name Abu Firas al-Hamdani (Arabic: أبو فراس الحمداني), was an

Adi ibn Hatim (516 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Adi ibn Hatim al-Tai (Arabic: عدي بن حاتم الطائي, romanized: ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim al-Ṭāʾī) was a leader of the Arab tribe of Tayy, and one of the companions

Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (2,878 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (Arabic: هِشَام ابْن عَبْد الْمَلِك ٱبْن مَرْوَان, romanized: Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān; c. 691 – 6 February

Ahmad ibn Ziyadat Allah ibn Qurhub (973 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ahmad ibn Ziyadat Allah ibn Qurhub, commonly known simply as Ibn Qurhub, ruled Sicily in rebellion against the Fatimid Caliphate, from 913 to 916. He launched

Husayn ibn Numayr al-Sakuni (432 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Ḥuṣayn ibn Numayr al-Sakūnī (died 5/6 August 686) was a leading general of the early Umayyad Caliphate, from the Sakun subtribe of the Kinda. A man

Usama ibn Zayd (1,043 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Usaamah ibn Zayd ibn Haritha al-Kalbi (Arabic: أسامة بن زيد بن حارثة الكلبي, romanized: ʾUsāma ibn Zayd ibn Ḥāritha al-Kalbī) was an early Muslim and companion

Nasar (498 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nasar (Greek: Νάσαρ), originally baptized Basil (Greek: Βασίλειος), was a distinguished Byzantine military leader in the Byzantine–Arab conflicts of the

Himerios (admiral) (493 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Himerios (Greek: Ὶμέριος), also Himerius, was a Byzantine administrator and admiral of the early 10th century, best known as the commander of the Byzantine

Battle of Ostia (555 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The naval Battle of Ostia took place in 849 in the Tyrrhenian Sea between a Muslim fleet and an Italian league of Papal, Neapolitan, Amalfitan, and Gaetan

Khalid ibn Barmak (1,826 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Khalid ibn Barmak (709–781/82; Arabic: خالد بن برمك) was the first prominent member of the Barmakids, an important Buddhist family from Balkh, which converted

Al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba (497 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i (Arabic: الحَسَن بن قَحْطَبَة بن شبيب الطائي) was a senior military leader in the early Abbasid Caliphate. He was

Katakalon Kekaumenos (506 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Katakalon Kekaumenos (Greek: Κατακαλὼν Κεκαυμένος) was a prominent Byzantine general of the mid-11th century. Katakalon Kekaumenos was born in Koloneia

Damian Dalassenos (773 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Damian Dalassenos (Greek: Δαμιανός Δαλασσηνός; ca. 940 – 19 July 998) was a Byzantine aristocrat and the first known member of the Dalassenos noble family

Theodore Trithyrius (429 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Theodore Trithyrius (Greek: Θεόδωρος Τριθύριος; died 636), commonly known by his title as Theodore the Sacellarius, was a Byzantine treasurer of the state

Chrysocheir (560 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Chrysocheir (Greek: Χρυσόχειρ), also known as Chrysocheres, Chrysocheris, or Chrysocheiros (Χρυσόχερης/Χρυσόχερις/Χρυσόχειρος), all meaning "goldhand"

Theodore Rshtuni (969 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Theodore or Theodoros Rshtuni (Old Armenian: Թէոդորոս Ռշտունի, romanized: T῾ēodoros Ṙštuni, Armenian pronunciation: [tʰɛodoɾos ərəʃtuni]; AD 590–655 or

Heraclius (brother of Tiberius III) (613 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Heraclius (Greek: Ἡράκλειος, Herakleios) was the brother of the Byzantine emperor Tiberius III (r. 698–705) and the Byzantine Empire's leading general

Constantine Dalassenos (duke of Antioch) (1,376 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Constantine Dalassenos (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Δαλασσηνός, romanized: Kōnstantinos Dalassēnos) was a prominent Byzantine aristocrat of the first half of the

Theophobos (979 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Theophobos (Greek: Θεόφοβος) or Theophobus, originally Nasir (Kurdish:ناسر), Nasr (نصر), or Nusayr (نصیر), was a Kurdish commander of the Khurramites who

Rustam ibn Baradu (542 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rustam ibn Baradu (Arabic: رستم بن بردو) or Rustum ibn Bardu, surnamed al-Farghani ("from Farghana"), was a military commander for the Abbasid Caliphate

Rashid al-Dawla Mahmud (619 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Salama Mahmud ibn Nasr ibn Salih Arabic: محمود بن نصر بن صالح المرداسي, romanized: Abū Salama Maḥmūd ibn Naṣr ibn Ṣāliḥ, also known by his laqab (honorific

Sa'id ibn Hamdan (716 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sa'id ibn Hamdan (Arabic: ابو علاء سعيد بن حمدان, romanized: Abu ʿAlāʾ Saʿīd ibn Ḥamdān) was an early member of the Hamdanid dynasty who served as provincial

Uqba ibn Amir (534 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Uqba ibn Amir al-Juhani (Arabic: عقبة بن عامر الجهني‎, romanized: ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī; died 677/78) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Harthama ibn A'yan (834 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Harthama ibn A'yan (Arabic: هرثمة بن أعين; died June 816) was a Khurasan-born general and governor of the early Abbasid Caliphate, serving under the caliphs

Constantine Kontomytes (275 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Constantine Kontomytes or Contomytes (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ Κοντομύτης, fl. 841–860) was a Byzantine general and nobleman. As the governor (strategos)

Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik (741 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān (Arabic: عبد الله بن عبد الملك; in Greek sources Ἀβδελᾶς, Abdelas) was an Umayyad prince, the son of Caliph Abd

Michael Spondyles (445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Michael Spondyles (Greek: Μιχαὴλ Σπονδύλης, Italian: Michele Sfrondilo) was a high-ranking Byzantine courtier who became governor of Antioch, and then

Guaram II of Iberia (159 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Guaram II (Georgian: გუარამ II), of the Guaramid dynasty, was a presiding prince of Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia) from 684/85 to c. 693. He was a hereditary

Umar ibn Hubayra (928 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Umar ibn Hubayra al-Fazari (Arabic: عمر بن هبيرة الفزاري, romanized: ʿUmar ibn Hubayra al-Fazārī; fl. 710–724/726) was a prominent Umayyad general and

Abu'l-Qasim Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi (474 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu'l-Qasim Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi (Arabic: أبو القاسم علي بن الحسن الكلبي, romanized: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Kalbī), known to the Byzantine

Elpidius (rebel) (562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Elpidius or Elpidios (Ancient Greek: Ἐλπίδιος) was a Byzantine aristocrat and governor of Sicily, who was accused of conspiring against Empress Irene of

Khalid ibn Sa'id (252 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Khālid ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ (Arabic: خالد بن سعيد بن العاص; d. 634 CE), also known as Abu Sa'id, was a companion to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a

Michael Spondyles (445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Michael Spondyles (Greek: Μιχαὴλ Σπονδύλης, Italian: Michele Sfrondilo) was a high-ranking Byzantine courtier who became governor of Antioch, and then

Ali ibn Yahya al-Armani (633 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

'Alī ibn Yaḥyā al-Armanī (Arabic: علي بن يحيى الأرمني) was a Muslim military commander of the mid-9th century, involved in the border warfare with the

Sa'd al-Dawla (1,663 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu 'l-Ma'ali Sharif, more commonly known by his honorific title, Sa'd al-Dawla (Arabic: سعد الدولة), was the second ruler of the Hamdanid Emirate of Aleppo

Nicholas Picingli (462 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nicholas Epigingles (Greek: Νικόλαος Ἐπιγίγγλης), better known by his Latinized surname Picingli, was a Byzantine general active in southern Italy and

Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh (1,084 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh (Arabic: أحمد بن كيغلغ) was an Abbasid military officer of Turkic origin who served as governor in Syria and Egypt. He was ousted

Peter (stratopedarches) (1,137 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Peter (Greek: Πέτρος; died 977) was a Byzantine eunuch general. Originally a servant of the powerful Cappadocian Phokas family, he was raised to high military

Karbeas (842 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Karbeas (Ancient Greek: Καρβέας), also Karbaias (Καρβαίας), was a Paulician leader, who, following the anti-Paulician pogroms in 843, abandoned his service

Abu'l-Fawaris Muhammad ibn Nasir al-Dawla (189 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abū'l-Fawāris Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir al-Dawla was a Hamdanid prince, active as a governor and general for his uncle, Sayf al-Dawla, Emir of Aleppo. Abu'l-Fawaris

Umm Hakim bint al-Harith ibn Hisham (554 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Umm Ḥakīm bint al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām (Arabic: أم حكيم بنت الحارث إبن هشام) was a female disciple (known in Arabic as Sahaba or companions ) of Islamic prophet

Al-Harith ibn Hisham (703 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām ibn al-Mughīra ibn ʿAbd Allāh (died 634, 636 or 639), was a companion of Muhammad, a noble of the Banu Makhzum and a participant in

Michael Bourtzes (1,933 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Michael Bourtzes (Greek: Μιχαήλ Βούρτζης, Arabic: Miḥā’īl al-Burdjī; ca. 930/35 – after 996) was a leading Byzantine general of the latter 10th century

Basil I (3,449 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Basil I, nicknamed "the Macedonian" (Ancient Greek: Βασίλειος ὁ Μακεδών, romanized: Basíleios ō Makedṓn; 811 – 29 August 886), was Byzantine emperor from

Eustathios Argyros (general under Leo VI) (1,279 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Eustathios Argyros (Greek: Εὐστάθιος Ἀργυρός; died ca. 910) was a Byzantine aristocrat and one of the most prominent generals under Emperor Leo VI the

Antony the Younger (609 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Saint Antony the Younger (Greek: Ἀντώνιος ὁ Νέος; 785 – 11 November 865) was a Byzantine military officer who became a monk and saint. He is commemorated

Niketas Chalkoutzes (298 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

between the Byzantines and the Arabs. Miniature from the Madrid Skylitzes Allegiance Byzantine Empire Rank General Battles / wars Arab–Byzantine wars

Gennadius (7th century) (788 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Gennadius (Greek: Γεννάδιος, romanized: Gennádios, died c. 665), was a Byzantine general who exercised the role of Exarch of Africa from 648 to 665. In

Valentinus (usurper) (746 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Valentinus (Ancient Greek: Οὐαλεντῖνος, romanized: Oualentĩnos or Ancient Greek: Βαλεντῖνος, romanized: Balentĩnos; died 644 or 645), sometimes anglicized

Al-Qasim ibn Harun al-Rashid (558 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Qāsim ibn Hārūn ar-Rāshīd ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī (Arabic: القاسم بن هارون الرشيد) was an Abbasid prince, the third son of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid

Niketas the Persian (345 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Niketas was a 7th-century Byzantine officer. He was the son and heir of the Sasanian Persian general and briefly shahanshah, Shahrbaraz. Niketas was the

Mufarrij ibn Daghfal ibn al-Jarrah (2,525 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mufarrij ibn Daghfal ibn al-Jarrah al-Tayyi (fl. ca. 977–1013), in some sources erroneously called Daghfal ibn Mufarrij, was an emir of the Jarrahid family

Leon I of Abkhazia (312 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Leon I of Abkhazia was the hereditary prince (Eristavi) of Abkhazia, ruling sometime between 720 - 740, or from c. 745 - 767, and a vassal to the Byzantine

Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Tamimi (349 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Tamimi (Arabic: يعقوب بن إسحاق التميمي) was a pirate in Fatimid service who led a major raid against the Italian coasts, Sardinia and

Elias of Enna (520 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Saint Elias of Enna, born John Rachites (Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης Ῥαχίτης; 822/823 in Enna – August 17, 903 in Thessalonica), is venerated as a saint by

Gregory the Patrician (1,238 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gregory the Patrician (Greek: Γρηγόριος, romanized: Grēgórios; Latin: Flavius Gregorius, died 647) was a Byzantine Exarch of Africa (modern Tunisia, eastern

Alexios Mosele (Caesar) (783 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Alexios Mosele (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξιος Μωσηλέ) or Musele/Mousele (Μουσελέ) was a Byzantine aristocrat and general, chosen by Emperor Theophilos (r. 829–842)

Siege of Aleppo (212 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to: Siege of Aleppo (637), during the Arab–Byzantine wars Siege of Aleppo (969), during the Arab–Byzantine wars by general Peter Siege of Aleppo (977)

Niketas Abalantes (537 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Niketas, possibly surnamed Abalantes (Greek: Νικήτας [Αβαλάντης]), was a Byzantine military commander who in 964 led a major expedition against the Fatimid

Ujayf ibn Anbasa (475 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ujayf ibn Anbasa (Arabic: عجيف بن عنبسة) (died 838) was one of the senior-most military leaders of the Abbasid Caliphate under the caliphs al-Ma'mun and

42 Martyrs of Amorium (642 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 42 Martyrs of Amorium (Ancient Greek: οἰ ἅγιοι μβ′ μάρτυρες τοῦ Ἀμορίου) were a group of Byzantine senior officials taken prisoner by the Abbasid Caliphate

Nikephoros Ouranos (1,696 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nikephoros Ouranos (Greek: Νικηφόρος Οὐρανός; fl. c. 980 – c. 1010), Latinized as Nicephorus Uranus, was a high-ranking Byzantine official and general

Michael Melissenos (330 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Michael Melissenos (Greek: Μιχαὴλ Μελισσηνός) was a notable Byzantine aristocrat and general during the reign of Emperor Constantine V (r. 741–775). Michael

Thamal al-Dulafi (959 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thamal al-Dulafi (Arabic: ثمل الدلفي, romanized: Thamal al-Dulafī; fl. 917/8–932) was an Abbasid military commander and longtime governor (wali or amir)

Basil Hexamilites (276 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Basil Hexamilites (Greek: Βασίλειος Ἑξαμιλίτης, fl. 956) was a Byzantine military leader who won a major victory against the Hamdanid navy of Tarsus. As

Nikephoros Ouranos (1,696 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nikephoros Ouranos (Greek: Νικηφόρος Οὐρανός; fl. c. 980 – c. 1010), Latinized as Nicephorus Uranus, was a high-ranking Byzantine official and general

Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj (752 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Nu'aym Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj ibn Jafna ibn Qatira al-Sakuni al-Tujibi al-Kindi Arabic: معاوية بن حديج بن جفنة بن قتيرة التجيبي, was a general of the

Constantine Phokas (390 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Constantine Phokas (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Φωκᾶς; died 953/954) was a Byzantine aristocrat and general. Constantine was the youngest son of Bardas Phokas

Ujayf ibn Anbasa (475 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ujayf ibn Anbasa (Arabic: عجيف بن عنبسة) (died 838) was one of the senior-most military leaders of the Abbasid Caliphate under the caliphs al-Ma'mun and

Theophylact Dalassenos (514 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Theophylact Dalassenos (Greek: Θεοφύλακτος Δαλασσηνός; born before c. 990 – after 1039) was a Byzantine aristocrat who occupied a series of senior military

Theodoulos Parsakoutenos (275 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Theodoulos Parsakoutenos (Greek: Θεόδουλος Παρσακουτηνός) was a Byzantine general who married into the Phokas clan. He was taken prisoner by the Hamdanid

Abd al-Rahman ibn Khalid (1,262 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abd al-Rahman ibn Khalid ibn al-Walid (Arabic: عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَن بْنِ خَالِد بْنِ الْوَلِيد, romanized: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid ibn al-Walīd; 616–666)

Ahmad ibn Tughan al-Ujayfi (707 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ahmad ibn Tughan al-Ujayfi (Arabic: أحمد بن توغان العجيفي) was the governor of Tarsus, Antioch, and the Abbasid Caliphate's borderlands in Cilicia (al-thughur

Sergios Niketiates (568 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sergios Niketiates (Greek: Σέργιος Νικητιάτης, fl. c. 843) was a senior Byzantine official and member of the Amorian dynasty. He is celebrated as a saint

Tughj ibn Juff (852 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ṭughj ibn Juff ibn Yiltakīn ibn Fūrān ibn Fūrī ibn Khāqān (died 906) was a Turkic military officer who served the Abbasid Caliphate and the autonomous

Euphemius (Sicily) (1,660 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Euphemius or Euphemios (Greek: Εὐφήμιος) was a Byzantine commander in Sicily, who rebelled against the imperial governor in 826 AD, and invited the Aghlabids

Abdallah ibn Qais (126 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abdallah ibn Qais (Arabic: عبد الله بن قيس) (Κάϊσος, Kaisos and Ἀβδελᾶς, Abdelas in Greek sources) was an Umayyad military leader active against the Byzantine

Abd al-Aziz ibn Shu'ayb (596 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Shuʿayb ibn ʿUmar al-Qurṭubī al-Ballūṭī (Arabic: عبد العزيز بن شعيب بن عمر القرطبي البلوطي), known as Kouroupas (Greek: Κουρουπᾶς) in

Nasr al-Thamali (255 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Naṣr al-Thamalī (Arabic: نصر الثملي) was an Abbasid military commander and governor (wali or amir) of Tarsus and the borderlands with the Byzantine Empire

Theodore Parsakoutenos (401 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Theodore Parsakoutenos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Παρσακουτηνός) was a Byzantine general in the 960s and nephew of Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas. The family's surname

Abu Taghlib (2,191 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Uddat al-Dawla Abu Taghlib Fadl Allah al-Ghadanfar al-Hamdani (Arabic: عدة الدولة أبو تغلب فضل الله الغضنفر الحمداني, romanized: ʿUddat al-Dawla ʿAbū Taghlib

Yahya ibn al-Hakam (1,089 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yahya ibn al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As (Arabic: يَحْيَى بْنِ الْحَكَم بْنِ أَبِي الْعَاص, romanized: Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ; died before 700) was

Bagrat II Bagratuni (1,313 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bagrat II Bagratuni (Armenian: Բագրատ Բ Բագրատունի, Arabic: Buqrāṭ ibn Ashūṭ; died after 851) was an Armenian noble of the Bagratid (Bagratuni) family

Bushra al-Thamali (238 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bashir or Bushra al-Thamali (Arabic: بشرى الثملي, romanized: Bushrā al-Thamalī) was an Abbasid military commander and governor (wali or amir) of Tarsus

Bardas Parsakoutenos (448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bardas Parsakoutenos (Greek: Βάρδας Παρσακουτηνός) was a Byzantine commander and nephew of Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas. The family's surname (erroneously

Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf (2,424 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf (Arabic: عبد الرحمن بن عوف) (c. 581–654): 94, 103 was one of the companions of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. One of the wealthiest

Leo Argyros (9th century) (207 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Leo Argyros (Greek: Λέων Ἀργυρός) was a Byzantine aristocrat and general active in the middle of the 9th century, and the founder of the noble family of

Abdallah II of Ifriqiya (312 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu 'l-Abbas Abdallah II (Arabic: أبو العباس عبد الله, Abū l-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh; died 27 July 903) was the Emir of Ifriqiya from 902 to 903. Mounting reports

Qarghuyah (517 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Qarghuyah or Qarquya was an important Arab administrator in the Hamdanid Dynasty under Sayf al-Dawla, who would go on to control Aleppo himself and even

Manuel Kourtikes (420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Manuel Kourtikes or Kourtikios (Ancient Greek: Μανουήλ Κουρτίκης/Κουρτίκιος) was a Byzantine official and military commander in the 940s. The Kourtikios

Nikephoros Parsakoutenos (340 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nikephoros Parsakoutenos (Greek: Νικηφόρος Παρσακουτηνός) was a Byzantine nobleman and nephew of Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas (r. 963–969). The family's

Muflih al-Saji (452 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Muflih al-Saji (Arabic: مفلح الساجي) was a Muslim commander and governor of Adharbayjan (Iranian Azerbaijan) from c. 929 to c. 935. As his nisba indicates

Ibn al-Zayyat (governor of Tarsus) (259 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Ibn al-Zayyat (Arabic: إبن الزيات) was the governor of Tarsus from ca. 956 until 962 for the Abbasid caliph al-Muti and Hamdanid ruler Sayf al-Dawla. He

Bishr al-Afshini (405 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bishr al-Afshini (Arabic: بشر الأفشيني) was a military commander for the Abbasid Caliphate and the governor (wali) of Tarsus from 912/3 until at least

Nikephoros II Phokas (4,203 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nikephoros II Phokas (Greek: Νικηφόρος Φωκᾶς, Nikēphóros Phōkãs; c. 912 – 11 December 969), Latinized Nicephorus II Phocas, was Byzantine emperor from

Theophilos Kourkouas (749 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Theophilos Kourkouas (Greek: Θεόφιλος Κουρκούας, fl. ca. 920–960s) was a distinguished Byzantine general in the 10th century. He was also the grandfather

Photeinos (strategos) (274 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Photeinos (Greek: Φωτεινός) was a Byzantine commander and governor active in the 820s. He is first mentioned following the Muslim conquest of the island

Sa'id al-Dawla (1,168 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu'l-Fada'il Sa'id al-Dawla (Arabic: أبو الفضائل سعيد الدولة) was the third Hamdanid ruler of the Emirate of Aleppo. He succeeded his father Sa'd al-Dawla

Damian of Tarsus (635 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Damian of Tarsus (Greek: Δαμιανός ό Ταρσεύς, Arabic: دميانه الطرسوسي, romanized: Damyanah al-Tarsusi; died 924), surnamed Ghulam Yazman ("slave/page of

Muhammad ibn Ali al-Armani (117 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Muhammad ibn Ali al-Armani (Arabic: محمد بن علي الأرمني) was the son of the Abbasid military commander Ali al-Armani ("Ali the Armenian"), celebrated for

Eustathios Argyros (admiral under Leo VI) (628 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Eustathios Argyros (Greek: Εύστάθιος Άργυρός) was a Byzantine admiral under Emperor Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912). Eustathios Argyros first appears during

Shu'ayb ibn Ahmad (160 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shu'ayb ibn Ahmad (Arabic: شعيب بن أحمد) was the eighth Emir of Crete, reigning from c. 940–943. The surviving records on the internal history and rulers

Malik ibn Kaydar (292 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Malik ibn Kaydar (Arabic: مالك بن كيدر; died 848) was a Sogdian military officer for the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century. The son of Kaydar Nasr

Muhammad I ibn al-Aghlab (538 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu'l-Abbas Muhammad I ibn al-Aghlab (Arabic: أبو العباس محمد الأول بن الأغلب) (died 856) was the fifth emir of the Aghlabid dynasty, who ruled over Ifriqiya

Zuhayr ibn Qays (688 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Zuhayr ibn Qays al-Balawī (Arabic: زهير بن قيس البلوي) (died 688) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and an Arab commander who fought in the

Ibn al-Dahhak (114 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ibn al-Dahhak (d. 927, fortress of al-Ja'fari) was a Kurdish chieftain, who abandoned Islam, converted to Christianity and entered the service of the Byzantine

Abu al-Muhajir Dinar (1,003 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu al-Muhajir Dinar (Arabic: أبو المهاجر دينار) was a governor of Ifriqiya under the Umayyad Caliphate and lead the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. He

Makroioannes (192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The patrikios Makroioannes (Greek: Μακροϊωάννης; "long John", evidently a sobriquet) was a Byzantine naval commander who commanded the fleet in the expedition

Muqallid ibn Kamil (438 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Muqallid ibn Kamil ibn Mirdas (Arabic: مقلد بن كامل بن مرداس) (fl. 1030–1050) was a member of the Mirdasid dynasty, a commander of the Banu Kilab and at

Basil Lekapenos (1,816 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Basil Lekapenos (Greek: Βασίλειος Λεκαπηνός, romanized: Basíleios Lekapēnós; c. 925 – c. 985), also called the Parakoimomenos (ὁ παρακοιμώμενος) or the

John Pitzigaudes (225 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Pitzigaudes (Greek: Ἰωάννης Πιτζιγαῦδης), his surname variously also given as Pitzigaudios (Πιτζιγαύδιος), Pitzogabdes (Πιτζογάβδης), and Pittigaudes

Shu'ayb ibn Ahmad (160 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shu'ayb ibn Ahmad (Arabic: شعيب بن أحمد) was the eighth Emir of Crete, reigning from c. 940–943. The surviving records on the internal history and rulers

Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi (1,663 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Abi al-Husayn al-Kalbi (Arabic: ﺍﻟﺤﺴﻦ ﺍﺑﻦ ﻋﻠﻲ ﺍﺑﻦ ﺍﺑﻲ ﺍﻟﺤﺴﻴﻦ الكلبي, romanized: al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn al-Kalbī), known

Itakh (731 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aytākh or Ītākh al-Khazarī (Arabic: إيتاخ الخزري) was a leading commander in the Turkic army of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim (r. 833-842 C.E.). As the

Iyad ibn Ghanm (2,220 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Iyad ibn Ghanm ibn Zuhayr al-Fihri (Arabic: عياض بن غنم بن زهير الفهري, romanized: ʿIyāḍ ibn Ghanm ibn Zuhayr al-Fihrī; died 641) was an Arab commander

Lu'lu' al-Kabir (1,402 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Muhammad Lu'lu', surnamed al-Kabir ("the Elder") and al-Jarrahi al-Sayfi ("[servant] of the Jarrahids and Sayf al-Dawla"), was a military slave (ghulam)

Abdallah al-Khazin (98 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abdallah al-Khazin was a military commander who served the Ikhshidids of Egypt. In 956/7, he conquered the town of Ibrim in Nubia, while in 956/7, 960/1

Husayn ibn Hamdan (2,079 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Husayn ibn Hamdan ibn Hamdun ibn al-Harith al-Taghlibi (Arabic: حسين بن حمدان بن حمدون بن الحارث التغلبي) was an early member of the Hamdanid family, who

Theophilos (emperor) (4,093 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Theophilos (Greek: Θεόφιλος, romanized: Theóphilos, sometimes Latinised as Theophilus; c. 812 – 20 January 842) was Byzantine Emperor from 829 until his

Abu'l-Asha'ir Ahmad ibn Nasr (315 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu'l-Asha'ir Ahmad ibn Nasr (Arabic: أبو الأشاعر أحمد بن نصر) (died 2 November 906) was a military commander for the Abbasid Caliphate and the governor

Thabit ibn Nasr (334 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thabit ibn Nasr ibn Malik al-Khuza'i (Arabic: ثابت بن نصر الخزاعي) (died 813/14) was an Abbasid general and governor of the Cilician frontier zone (al-thughur

Romanos Kourkouas (527 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Romanos Kourkouas (Greek: Ῥωμανός Κουρκούας) was a Byzantine aristocrat and senior military leader in the mid-10th century. Romanos was a scion of the

Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri (1,359 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ḥabīb ibn Maslama al-Fihrī (Arabic: حبيب بن مسلمة الفهري; c. 617–c. 662) was an Arab general during the Early Muslim conquests, under Mu'awiyah ibn Abi

Safwan ibn Muattal (863 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ṣafwān ibn al-Muʿaṭṭal al-Sulamī (Arabic: صفوان بن المعطل السلمي; d. 638 or 679) was a sahabi (companion) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and an Arab commander

Al-Qa'qa ibn Amr (2,100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Qaʿqāʿ ibn ʿAmr ibn Mālik Al-Tamīmī (Arabic: القعقاع بن عمرو بن مالك التميمي الراعي) was an Arab Muslim commander and general in the Rashidun army who

Neboulos (394 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Neboulos (Greek: Νέβουλος) was a South Slavic military commander in the service of the Byzantine emperor Justinian II (r. 685–695 and 705–711), who defected

Humayd ibn Ma'yuf al-Hajuri (539 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ḥumayd ibn Ma'yūf al-Ḥajūrī (Arabic: حميد بن معيوف الحجوري) was an Arab commander in Abbasid service in the early 9th century. Humayd hailed from an Arab

John Mystikos (789 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Mystikos (Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Μυστικός; fl. ca. 924–946) was a Byzantine official, who served as the chief minister (paradynasteuon) of the empire in

Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin (3,164 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ḥaydar ibn Kāwūs (Arabic: حيدر بن كاوس, Persian: خِیذَر اِبنِ کاووس, romanized: Kheyzar ebn-e Kāvus), better known by his hereditary title of al-Afshīn

Ali ibn Yusuf ibn Umar (271 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ali ibn Yusuf ibn Umar (Arabic: علي بن يوسف بن عمر) was the sixth emir of Crete, reigning from c. 915–925. The surviving records on the internal history

Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki (215 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki (Arabic: يزيد بن أبي كبشة السكسكي) was an Arab military commander and provincial governor for the Umayyad Caliphate. He

Yusuf ibn Umar ibn Shu'ayb (330 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yusuf ibn Umar ibn Shu'ayb (Arabic: يوسف بن عمر بن شعيب) was the fifth Emir of Crete, reigning from c. 910–915. The surviving records on the internal history

Abd Allah ibn Ali (1,459 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī (Arabic: أبو محمد عبد الله بن علي; c. 712 – 764 CE) was a member of the Abbasid dynasty, and played a leading role in

Thumama ibn al-Walid (315 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thumāma ibn al-Walīd ibn Qa‘qā al-‘Absi‘ (Arabic: ثمامة بن الوليد بن قعقاع العبسي) was an Arab general of noble lineage from Syria, who served the Abbasid

Photios (Emirate of Crete) (362 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Photios (Greek: Φώτιος, fl. c. 872/3) was a Byzantine renegade and convert to Islam who served the Emirate of Crete as a naval commander in the 870s. Photios

Ali ibn Ahmad (200 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ali ibn Ahmad (Arabic: علي بن أحمد) was the ninth Emir of Crete, reigning from c. 943–949. The surviving records on the internal history and rulers of

Ibn Mulhim (644 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Makīn al-Dawla al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Mulhim ibn Dīnār al-ʿUqaylī (Arabic: مكين الدولة الحسن بن علي بن ملهم بن دينار العقيلي) (fl. 1053–1062), also known

Sa'id ibn Salm al-Bahili (446 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sa'id ibn Salm al-Bahili was an Arab governor and military commander of the early Abbasid Caliphate. Sa'id was the scion of a prominent family of the Bahila

Badr al-Hammami (771 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Badr ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥammāmī (Arabic: بدر بن عبدالله الحمّامي) also known as Badr al-Kabīr ("Badr the Elder"), was a general who served the Tulunids and

Manuel the Armenian (2,049 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Manuel the Armenian (Ancient Greek: Μανουήλ ὁ Ἀρμένιος, Armenian: Մանվել Հայ), was a prominent Byzantine general of Armenian origin, active from c. 810

Abu Thabit (280 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Thabit (Arabic: أبو ثابت) served briefly as governor of Tarsus for the Abbasid Caliphate in 900. Governor Ibn al-Ikhshad left him behind in the city

Ibn Mulhim (644 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Makīn al-Dawla al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Mulhim ibn Dīnār al-ʿUqaylī (Arabic: مكين الدولة الحسن بن علي بن ملهم بن دينار العقيلي) (fl. 1053–1062), also known

Ali ibn Ahmad (200 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ali ibn Ahmad (Arabic: علي بن أحمد) was the ninth Emir of Crete, reigning from c. 943–949. The surviving records on the internal history and rulers of

Ahmad ibn Umar (243 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Shu'ayb (Arabic: أحمد بن عمر بن شعيب) was the seventh emir of Crete, reigning from c. 925–940. The surviving records on the internal

Rashiq al-Nasimi (717 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rashiq al-Nasimi (Arabic: رشيق النسيمي) was the governor of Tarsus for the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla and Abbasid caliph from 962 until the city's surrender

Ruwayfi ibn Thabit (78 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ruwayfi ibn Thabit al-Ansari (7th century) was the deputy commander of Tripoli for the Egypt-based Umayyad commander Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj. He led the Muslim

Atiyya ibn Salih (1,235 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Asad al-Dawla Abū Dhūʿaba ʿAṭiyya ibn Ṣāliḥ (Arabic: عطية بن صالح بن مرداس; died July 1073) was the Mirdasid emir of Aleppo in 1062–1065. Prior to his

Al-Aziz Billah (4,782 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Mansur Nizar (Arabic: أبو منصور نزار, romanized: Abū Manṣūr Nizār; 10 May 955 – 14 October 996), known by his regnal name as al-Aziz Billah (Arabic:

Al-Fadl ibn Qarin al-Tabari (527 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Fadl ibn Qarin al-Tabari (Arabic: الفضل بن قارن الطبري) was a ninth century military commander and provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate. He

Al-Harith ibn al-Hakam (815 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Ḥārith ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ ibn Umayya was a senior adviser and cousin of Caliph Uthman (r. 644–656). He played a role in the expedition against

Nasr ibn Musharraf al-Rawadifi (374 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nasr ibn Musharraf al-Rawadifi (Arabic: نصر بن مشرف الروادفي; died 1032) was an Arab chieftain of the Citadel of Maniqa and Jabal al-Rawadif near Antioch

John Rhadenos (284 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The patrikios John Rhadenos (Greek: Ἰωάννης Ῥαδηνός, also Ῥαδινός, Ῥωδινός in the sources; fl. 917–921/22) was a Byzantine official and military leader

Krateros (strategos of the Cibyrrhaeots) (215 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Krateros (Greek: Κρατερός) was a Byzantine naval commander in the 820s. Very little is known about him. Even his name is unclear, as "Krateros" may be

Al-Hasan ibn al-Abbas (246 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAbbās (Arabic: الحسن بن العباس) was an Aghlabid military commander who fought in Sicily against the Byzantine Empire. He was appointed

Maslama ibn Yahya al-Bajali (100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Maslama ibn Yahya al-Bajali (Arabic: مسلمة بن يحيى البجلي) was a Khurasani Arab general and governor of the Abbasid Caliphate. He was the brother of Jibril

Kesta Styppiotes (453 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kesta Styppiotes or Stypeiotes (Greek: Κεστά Στυππιώτης/Στυπειώτης; died 11 September 883) was briefly the Domestic of the Schools of the Byzantine Empire

Urkhuz ibn Ulugh Tarkhan (370 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Urkhuz ibn Ulugh Tarkhan or ibn Yulugh was a Turkish general of the Abbasid Caliphate and governor of Tarsus and of the borderlands with the Byzantine

Eustathios (governor of the Cibyrrhaeot Theme) (259 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Eustathios (Greek: Εὐστάθιος) was the Byzantine governor (strategos) of the Cibyrrhaeot Theme in ca. 909–912. Eustathios is only mentioned by the De Administrando

Al-Rabi ibn Yunus (481 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Rabīʾ ibn Yūnus ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Farwa (Arabic: الربيع بن يونس بن عبدالله بن أبي فروة; c. 730 – 785/6) was a freedman who became one of the leading

Michael Toxaras (189 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Michael Toxaras (Greek: Μιχαήλ Τοξαρᾶς) was a Byzantine diplomat. Toxaras is mentioned for the first time as a member of an embassy sent to the Abbasid

Shibl al-Dawla Nasr (2,962 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Kamil Nasr ibn Salih ibn Mirdas (Arabic: نصر بن صالح بن مرداس, romanized: Abū Kāmil Naṣr ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Mirdās) (died 22 May 1038), also known by his

Ibn al-Ikhshad (378 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ibn al-Ikhshad or Ibn al-Ikhshid (Arabic: إبن الإخشيد) was the governor of Tarsus for the Abbasid Caliphate from April 898 until his death in battle against

Jalal al-Mulk Ali ibn Muhammad (422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jalal al-Mulk Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ammar (Arabic: جلال الملك علي بن محمد بن عمار) was the ruler (qadi) of Tripoli during the First Crusade. Ali belonged

Staurakios Platys (235 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Staurakios Platys (Greek: Σταυράκιος ὁ Πλατύς) was a Byzantine officer who served as the katepano of the Mardaites in the Cibyrrhaeot Theme in ca. 910

Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi (364 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu'l-Qasim al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi (Arabic: أبو القاسم الحسين بن علي المغربي) was a senior statesman of Persian origin in the service of the Abbasid

Salim ibn Asad ibn Abi Rashid (726 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Salim ibn Asad ibn Abi Rashid (Arabic: سالم بن أسد بن أبي راشد) was the governor of Sicily for the Fatimid Caliphate for twenty years, from 917 to 937

Ashinas (1,850 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Ja'far Ashinas (Arabic: أبو جعفر أشناس; died 17 or 19 December 844) was a general of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tasim. One of the earliest and most prominent

Peter of Goulaion (234 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Peter of Goulaion (Greek: Πέτρος τοῦ Γουλαίου or ὁ Γουλαιάτης, romanized: Petros tou Goulaiou/ho Goulaiates) was a Byzantine abbot of the early 9th century

Abu'l-Faraj al-Tarsusi (188 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu'l-Faraj al-Tarsusi was a commander from Tarsus who served the Ikhshidids of Egypt. As his nisba indicates, Abu'l-Faraj was originally from Tarsus,

Aban ibn Sa'id (1,460 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aban ibn Sa'id ibn al-As (Arabic: أبان بن سعيد بن العاص, romanized: Abān ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ), was one of the scribe companions of the Islamic Prophet

Pothos Argyros (11th century) (483 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Pothos Argyros or Argyrus (Greek: Πόθος Ἀργυρός; Italian: Potone Argiro or Poto Argiro) was a Byzantine commander, who served as the catepan of Italy during

Miqdad ibn Aswad (3,313 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Miqdad ibn Amr al-Bahrani (Arabic: المقداد بن عمرو ٱلْبَهْرَانِيّ, romanized: al-Miqdād ibn ʿAmr al-Bahrānī), better known as al-Miqdad ibn al-Aswad

Al-Mansur Billah (4,747 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Tahir Isma'il (Arabic: أبو طاهر إسماعيل, romanized: Abū Ṭāhir ʾIsmāʿīl; January 914 – 18 March 953), better known by his regnal name al-Mansur Billah

Anushtakin al-Dizbari (4,034 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sharaf al-Maʿālī Abu Manṣūr Anūshtakīn al-Dizbarī (died January 1042) was a Fatimid statesman and general who became the most powerful Fatimid governor

Al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Khinzir (822 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Khinzir (Arabic: الحسن بن أحمد بن أبي خنزير; fl. 909–914) was a Fatimid military commander who served as the first Fatimid governor

Abu Sulaym Faraj al-Khadim al-Turki (409 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Sulaym Faraj al-Khadim al-Turki, sometimes erroneously called Faraj ibn Sulaym, was an Abbasid court eunuch and official. In 787, Caliph Harun al-Rashid

Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (5,822 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Ali al-Mansur (Arabic: أبو علي المنصور, romanized: Abū ʿAlī al-Manṣūr; 13 August 985 – 13 February 1021), better known by his regnal name al-Hakim

Harun al-Rashid (6,894 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ar-Rāshīd (Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر هَارُون ٱبْنِ مُحَمَّد ٱلْمَهْدِيّ, romanized: Abū Ja'far Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī) (Persian:

Al-Hasan ibn Ali Kurah (368 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī Kūrah (Arabic: الحسن بن علي كراه) was a military leader of the Abbasid Caliphate under Caliph al-Mu'tadid. Al-Hasan ibn Ali Kurah first

Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah (5,141 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Jarrāḥ (Arabic: عامر بن عبدالله بن الجراح‎; 583–639), better known as Abū ʿUbayda (Arabic: أبو عبيدة‎) was a Muslim commander

Sa'id ibn Abd al-Malik (1,480 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sa'id ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (Arabic: سعيد بن عبد الملك بن مروان, romanized: Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān; died 750), also known as Saʿīd al-Khayr

Yazid I (7,560 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yazid ibn Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan (Arabic: يزيد بن معاوية بن أبي سفيان, romanized: Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya ibn ʾAbī Sufyān; c. 646 – 11 November 683), commonly

Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Tamimi (1,074 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Tamimi (Arabic: خليل بن إسحاق التميمي) was a Sunni Arab military commander, in the service of the Fatimid Caliphate as head of the

Ja'far ibn Abd al-Wahid ibn Ja'far al-Hashimi (579 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Abdallah Ja'far ibn Abd al-Wahid ibn Ja'far ibn Sulayman ibn Ali al-Hashimi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله جعفر بن عبد الواحد بن جعفر بن سليمان بن علي الهاشمي)

Mu'izz al-Dawla Thimal (3,197 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Ulwan Thimal ibn Salih ibn Mirdas (Arabic: أبو علوان ثمال بن صالح بن مرداس, romanized: Abū ʿUlwān Thimāl ibn Ṣāliẖ ibn Mirdās; died 1062), also known

Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya (4,550 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim II ibn Ahmad (Arabic: أبو اسحاق ابراهيم الثاني) (27 June 850 – 23 October 902) was the Emir of Ifriqiya. He ruled from 875 until his

Thomas the Slav (5,851 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas the Slav (Greek: Θωμᾶς, romanized: Thōmas, c. 760 – October 823) was a 9th-century Byzantine military commander, most notable for leading a wide-scale

Muhammad ibn Al Fadl (60 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Muhammad ibn Al Fadl was an Aghlabid military commander who fought in Sicily against the Byzantine Empire. He was appointed as the governor of the Aghlabid-controlled

Ahmad ibn Tulun (6,552 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ahmad ibn Tulun (Arabic: أحمد بن طولون, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn‎; c. 20 September 835 – 10 May 884) was the founder of the Tulunid dynasty that ruled

Sabir al-Fata (396 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sabir al-Fata was a freedman who served the Fatimid caliph al-Mahdi Billah as a governor and military commander. As his sobriquet of al-Fata (lit. 'the

Basil II (9,275 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Basil II Porphyrogenitus (Greek: Βασίλειος Πορφυρογέννητος Basíleios Porphyrogénnetos; 958 – 15 December 1025), nicknamed the Bulgar Slayer (Greek: ὁ Βουλγαροκτόνος

Nerses Kamsarakan (270 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nerseh or Nerses Kamsarakan (Armenian: Ներսեհ Կամսարական) was the presiding prince of Armenia in 689–691, backed by the Byzantine Empire. Armenia had been

Vardan II (202 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vardan II (died 711), was the Mihranid king of Caucasian Albania from 705 to 711 (together with brother Gagik I). Son of king Varaz Trdat I and Sparama

Amr ibn al-As (7,783 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Amr ibn al-As ibn Wa'il al-Sahmi (Arabic: عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ بْنِ وَائِل السَّهْمِي, romanized: ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil al-Sahmī; c. 573 – 664) was

Hamazasp IV Mamikonian (269 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hamazasp Mamikonian (Armenian: Գրիգոր Մամիկոնյան) was the presiding prince of Armenia in 655–661, when the country was under Arab domination. After the

Ashot II Bagratuni (307 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ashot II Bagratuni (Armenian: Աշոտ Բ Բագրատունի) was the presiding prince of Armenia in 685–690, when the country was contested between the Byzantine Empire

Al-Mu'tasim (10,752 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which features heavily fictionalized versions of events from the Arab–Byzantine wars. In it, al-Mu'tasim helps the heroes pursue the traitor and apostate

Battle of Damietta (128 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Damietta may refer to: Sack of Damietta (853), a part of the Arab–Byzantine wars Siege of Damietta (1169), a part of the Crusader invasions of Egypt

Zubayr ibn al-Awwam (15,720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam ibn Khuwaylid al-Asadi (Arabic: الزُّبَيْر بْن الْعَوَّام بْن خُوَيْلِد الأَسَدِيّ, romanized: al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām ibn Khuwaylid

Theodore (prefect of Egypt) (3,095 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Theodore (Latin: Theodorus, Greek: Θεόδωρος; fl. 7th century) was a Byzantine military commander who led the Byzantine army in the defence of Egypt during

Siege of Nicaea (disambiguation) (85 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

of Nicaea may also refer to: Siege of Nicaea (727), part of the Arab–Byzantine Wars Siege of Nicaea (1113), part of the Byzantine–Seljuk Wars Siege of