Subject to the ruler of the Bulgarians
The rulers of the Pechenegs and Magyars are the only independent rulers to be accorded the title archontes. In contrast, and also in accordance...
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Compassionately embrace his victim
His anger, too, was not lasting, like that of his brother Basil. He quickly relented and was terribly downcast at what he had done....
None other than Constantine
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The kind of persons historians record
Having thus given a brief outline of the man, I will now proceed to a fuller description and fill in the details, as I...
Constantine X
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