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Nikephoros and sent him as a prisoner to Constantinople, where Constantine VIII, after carefully examining the affair and convincing himself of Nikephoros' guilt, had him and eight of his companions blinded in the next year.
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Nikephoros is first mentioned in the historical record in
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Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057
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Byzantine Studies, University of Thessaloniki
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of Vaspurakan under Basil II's brother and successor,
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records that Nikephoros captured the principality of
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513:. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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917:Theodora Megale Komnene
892:Manuel I Megas Komnenos
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956:Michael Megas Komnenos
931:John II Megas Komnenos
756:John Tzelepes Komnenos
136:– after 1026/7) was a
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272:Aristakes Lastivertsi
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1136:Uncertain generation
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779:John Doukas Komnenos
674:Constantine Komnenos
211:, shortly after the
1199:11th-century deaths
810:Alexios II Komnenos
739:Andronikos Komnenos
701:Andronikos Komnenos
648:Nikephoros Komnenos
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568:Empire of Trebizond
425:, pp. 350–351.
312:George I of Georgia
217:Senekerim-Hovhannes
188:Konstantinos Varzos
127:Nikēphoros Komnēnos
115:Nikephoros Komnenos
32:Nikephoros Komnenos
1234:Byzantine usurpers
637:Alexios I Komnenos
439:Kazhdan, Alexander
213:King of Vaspurakan
123:Νικηφόρος Κομνηνός
63:Νικηφόρος Κομνηνός
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241:Ἀσπρακανία
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236:Sebasteia
178:Biography
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560:Komnenoi
280:Lake Van
267:katepano
228:Basil II
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