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Sisinnios arrived in the city, preventing Mauros from undertaking any military activity. When the navy anchored in Thessaloniki, Mauros appeared to fall ill and spent a long time in bed under the surveillance of Sisinnios. While the allegations against Mauros were never proven,
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Chersonesos, the navy was hit by a horrible storm which claimed thousands of victims, but Mauros survived. Not long after the first expedition, he had to return to Chersonesos because sedition in the city had begun anew, and the newly installed Elias had joined the insurgents.
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Even as a member of the
Byzantine nobility, Mauros made one more attempt to assist Kuber in an anti-Byzantine plot, this time threatening the life of the emperor. However, he was once again unsuccessful. The conspiracy was uncovered by his own son from a Byzantine woman, Mauros was imprisoned in a
284:. Some researchers assert the identification of Kuber's associate with Mauros of the seals; others do not exclude the possibility that the Mauros of the seals was the former's son. Historian Daniel Ziemann even suggests that Mauros the Bulgar may or may not be a different person from Mauros the
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Due to the increasing flight of Kuber's
Byzantine subjects to Thessaloniki, he and Mauros hatched a plan to seize the city and use it as a base for future expansion. Mauros was seen as the ideal candidate to carry out the mission not only due to Kuber's trust in him, but also because Mauros was
201:. In line with the plan, Mauros was sent by Kuber to Thessaloniki pretending to be a refugee in charge of a group of people fleeing from Kuber. Mauros was not only welcomed inside the city, but also put in charge of all Bulgar and
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Though Mauros did not sever his ties with Kuber, at the same time he continued his rise in the
Byzantine hierarchy. Three preserved seals, the earliest from the late 7th century, testify to Mauros' elevation to the status of
151:'s plot to conquer Thessaloniki in c. 686–687. From the testaments of contemporaneous historians, it is apparent that Mauros was a well-respected figure among the population ruled by Kuber, which consisted of Bulgars and
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Prior to Mauros' arrival, a naval expedition had failed to crush the uprising and its leaders had been murdered. Assessing the size of the rebellion, Justinian dispatched Mauros in charge of a large force complete with
181:(general of the highest rank) of Kuber. Regardless of whether he had an official title at all, Mauros was certainly among Kuber's most trusted associates. Prior to his mission in Byzantium, Mauros was
360:. Mauros and Ioannes, another associate of Philippikos, seized him and Tiberios was promptly executed. This is the last mention of Mauros in the sources, and his subsequent fate is unknown.
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Bulgaroi". In fact, Mauros appears to have been the first attested case in a long Byzantine tradition of granting rulers of unassimilated but pro-imperial populations the title of
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in service of
Justinian towards the end of that emperor's second reign in 705–711. In 711, he was involved in Justinian's attempt to quell a rebellion in
218:(r. 685–695, 705–711). Mauros appears to have commanded his own military force, consisting of former subjects of Kuber who were nominally part of the
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Elias as governor. Even though their arrival was met with no apparent resistance, it was supervened by repressions and the torture of local leaders.
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he was nonetheless dispatched outside the city along with
Sisinnios' men, hoping to attract new refugees from Kuber and the local
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