Bardas Skleros receives officials as emperor, miniature from the Madrid Skylitzes
Current region
North-eastern Asia Minor
Place of origin
Melitene
The Skleros (Greek: Σκληρός; plural: Σκληροί, Skleroi), latinized Sclerus, feminine form Skleraina (Σκλήραινα), Latinized Scleraena, was a noble Byzantine family active mostly in the 9th–11th centuries as members of the military aristocracy, and as civil functionaries thereafter.[1]
Balkans: the first Skleros known was a strategos of the Peloponnese in 805, and in 811, the same office was occupied by Leo Skleros, possibly a son or...
Byzantium. In 987 Skleros was finally recalled to his homeland by Phokas, who took advantage of the Bulgarian wars to aim at the crown. Skleros promptly mustered...
century. Basil was the son of the magistros Romanos Skleros, a son of the rebel general Bardas Skleros who became a close advisor to Emperor Basil II (r...
Anatolian aristocracy: first Bardas Skleros and later Bardas Phokas, which ended shortly after Phokas' death and Skleros' submission in 989. Basil then oversaw...
their rebellion was extinguished by another skilled commander, Bardas Skleros. Phokas and his relatives were captured and exiled to the island of Chios...
Maria Skleraina, daughter of Pantherios Skleros and sister of Bardas Skleros, linked him to the influential Skleros family. Little is known about her; she...
Sclerocarya birrea (Ancient Greek: σκληρός ⟨sklērós⟩, meaning "hard", and κάρυον ⟨káryon⟩, "nut", in reference to the stone inside the fleshy fruit),...
the former rebel Bardas Skleros had been granted asylum by the ruling Buyid dynasty. In a formal treaty in December 986, Skleros agreed to a number of concessions...
inflicts a crushing defeat on the rebels of General Bardas Skleros, at Sarvenis (modern Turkey). Skleros manages to escape, and finds shelter with his Muslim...
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Cappadocia. Tzimiskes dispatched his lieutenant Bardas Skleros against Bardas Phokas. Skleros was able to lure away many of Phokas' supporters, until...
sources as leading the defence of Nicaea in 978 against the rebel Bardas Skleros, and as an imperial envoy to him 11 years later. He had three children...
the Balkans to his brother-in-law, the Domestic of the Schools Bardas Skleros, and to the eunuch general Peter Phokas, who begin to gather a Byzantine...
Bardas Phokas the Younger, and the forces of the rebel general Bardas Skleros, which ultimately led to the defeat and exile of the latter. Sources are...
Carlo Curzio and then well documented in 1842. The term is from the Greek skleros meaning "hard" and derma meaning "skin". Potential signs and symptoms include:...
A sclerite (Greek σκληρός, sklēros, meaning "hard") is a hardened body part. In various branches of biology the term is applied to various structures...
by Skleros, hoping to gain the latter's support. He defeated a Buyid force pursuing him at Skleros' base of Kharput/Hisn Ziyad in August, but Skleros too...
Monomachos. He controversially gave her the title of Sebastē. Of the prominent Skleros family, she was known for her charming appearance and character, and was...
The term "sclerodactyly" comes from the combination of the Greek words "skleros" meaning hard and "daktylos" meaning a finger or toe – "hard fingers or...
battle against the Buyid dynasty in 987-988 CE. During his rebellion, Skleros asked for help from Baz who raided Taron and sacked the town of Muş with...
sclerotium comes to English from Neo-Latin, from Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós) 'hard'. L. R. Tulasne (1853) "Mémoire sur l'ergot des Glumacées" (Memoir...
East under Emperor Basil II and defended Nicaea against the rebel Bardas Skleros in 978. His mother's name was Maria, about whom nothing else is known....
Italy in 1017; Pulcheria Argyropoulina, who married the magistros Basil Skleros; a sister who married Constantine Karantenos, who served as doux of Antioch...
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