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About Bardas Phokas the Elder
Bardas Phokas was a notable Byzantine general in the first half of the 10th century. He was the father of emperor Nikephoros II Phokas and the kouropalates Leo Phokas the Younger, and was also the maternal grandfather of the emperor John I Tzimiskes. His wife, daughter of Eudokimos Maleinos and a daughter of patrikios Adralestos, belonged to the Maleinoi, a powerful Anatolian Greek family which had settled in Cappadocia.
Everything about Bardas Phokas the Elder →- Occupation
- military leader
- Position held
- Domestic of the Schools
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Born
- 878
- Died
- 968