Nikephoros Xiphias (Greek: Νικηφόρος Ξιφίας, fl. c. 1000 – 1028) was a Byzantine military commander during the reign of Emperor Basil II. He played a distinguished role in the Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria, and was instrumental in the decisive Byzantine victory at the Battle of Kleidion in 1014. In 1022 he led an unsuccessful rebellion against Basil II, and was disgraced, tonsured and exiled. He is last mentioned in 1028, when he was recalled from exile and retired to a monastery.
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a major strategic fortification, governed by the protospatharios NikephorosXiphias. In the middle 11th century, the city was attacked by the Pechenegs...
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was captured at the turn of the 2nd millennium by Theodorokanos and NikephorosXiphias, during the campaigns of the emperor Basil the Bulgar-Slayer (r. 960–1025)...
year and refused to pay the annual tribute to Bulgaria. Their emperor Nikephoros II Phokas (963–969) who had achieved decisive victories over the Arabs...
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established in 1020 by the Byzantine commander NikephorosXiphias who became governor of Plovdiv in 1018. Xiphias had important contributions for the Byzantine...
under Byzantine control in 876. The expeditions of the capable general Nikephoros Phokas the Elder in the mid-880s further extended Byzantine control over...
suppressing the rebellion of NikephorosXiphias and Nikephoros Phokas Barytrachelos. In the end, the two rebels fell out and Xiphias had Phokas assassinated;...
Bulgaria, as strategos in Philippopolis. In the year 1000, along with NikephorosXiphias, he led an army that rapidly captured the Bulgarian fortresses of...
Bardas Phokas the Younger against Basil II. 1022: Revolt of NikephorosXiphias and Nikephoros Phokas Barytrachelos against Basil II. 1026–1027: Revolt of...
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strategist NikephorosXiphias (a Byzantine general of the time who had distinguished himself in the war against the Bulgars) and his namesake Nikephoros Phokas...
Following the death of Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria in October, Diogenes and NikephorosXiphias were dispatched to the region of Moglena as the vanguard of the emperor...
Summer – Nikephoros Phokas Barytrachelos conspires with the Byzantine general NikephorosXiphias against Basil II. The rebellion collapses and Xiphias assassinates...
Paul Stephenson, secured for Daphnomeles, along with Nikephoros Ouranos and NikephorosXiphias, the reputation of one of the most prominent and successful...
was treated very rudely and in an undignified manner by the court of Nikephoros II, being served goat stuffed with onion and served in fish sauce and...
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