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Leo VI the Wise. Leo VI, also known as Leo the Wise (Greek: Λέων ὁ Σοφός, romanized: Léōn ho Sophós, 19 September 866 – 11 May 912), was Byzantine Emperor from 886 to 912. The second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty (although his parentage is unclear), he was very well read, leading to his epithet. During his reign, the ...
The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as legitimate rulers and exercised sovereign authority are included, to the exclusion of junior co-emperors (symbasileis) who never attained the status of sole or senior ruler, as well as of the various usurpers ...
The Tactica (Greek: Τακτικά) is a military treatise written by or on behalf of Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise in c. 895–908, [1] and later edited by his son, Constantine VII. [2] Drawing on earlier authors such as Aelian, Onasander and the Strategikon of emperor Maurice, [2] it is one of the major works on Byzantine military tactics ...
The Oracles of Leo the Wise (Greek Tou sophōtatou basileōs Leontos chrēsmoi; Latin Oracula Leonis or Vaticinia Leonis) is a Greek collection of oracles attributed to the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise (886–912). In actuality, the collection was first put together in the twelfth century by an anonymous editor probably working in ...
A large corpus of Byzantine military literature survives. Characteristically Byzantine manuals were first produced in the sixth century. They greatly proliferated in the tenth century, when the Byzantines embarked on their conquests in the East and the Balkans, but production abated after the early eleventh century.
A conflict arose when Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise, allegedly acting under pressure from his mistress Zoe Zaoutzaina and her father Stylianos Zaoutzes, moved the marketplace for Bulgarian goods from Constantinople to Thessaloniki, [17] where the Bulgarian merchants were heavily taxed. The Bulgarians sought protection by Simeon, who in turn ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 September 2024. 10th and 11th-century Grand Prince of Kiev and Novgorod "Prince Vladimir" redirects here. For the 2006 Russian film, see Prince Vladimir. In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Sviatoslavich. Vladimir the Great Vladimir's effigy on one of his coins ...
Leo VI (right) and Basil I (left), from the 12th-century Madrid Skylitzes. The Basilika (Greek: τὰ βασιλικά, romanized: ta basiliká, "the imperial [laws]") was a collection of laws completed c. 892 AD in Constantinople by order of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise during the Macedonian dynasty. This was a continuation of the ...