after, Theodorokanos retired due to his advanced age, and was replaced by Xiphias. The generals George Theodorokanos and Basil Theodorokanos, active...
Basil III Theodorokanos or Theodorocanus (Greek: Βασίλειος Θεοδωροκάνος, Italian: Teodoro Cano) was the Byzantine Catepan of Italy from February to the...
George Maniakes Autumn 1042 Pardos February 1043 – April 1043 Basil Theodorokanos Autumn 1045 – September 1046 Eustathios Palatinos September 1046 – December...
and hard war with the First Bulgarian Empire. The Byzantine generals, Theodorokanos and Nikephoros Xiphias captured the former Bulgarian capitals of Pliska...
romanized: Plískova) was captured at the turn of the 2nd millennium by Theodorokanos and Nikephoros Xiphias, during the campaigns of the emperor Basil the...
strategic insight. In 1000, the Byzantine generals Nikephoros Xiphias and Theodorokanos took the former Bulgarian capital Great Preslav, and the towns Lesser...
At the time he was a protospatharios, and along with the patrikios Theodorokanos, he commanded a campaign deep into Bulgarian lands. Setting out from...
than attack. In 1001, Basil II sent a large army under the patrician Theodorokanos and Nikephoros Xiphias to the north of the Balkan Mountains to seize...
reconquered by Bulgarians as well. In 1000, a Byzantine army commanded by Theodorokanos reconquered the whole of Dobruja, organizing the region as the Strategia...