Definition of Bourtzes. Meaning of Bourtzes. Synonyms of Bourtzes

- Resentful at the slight, Bourtzes joined forces with the conspirators who ********inated Phokas a few w****s later. Bourtzes re-appears in a prominent role...
- installed Michael Bourtzes as its commander, instructing him and Petros to lay siege to Antioch. Nikephoros explicitly forbade Bourtzes from taking Antioch...
- began when he dismissed Michael Bourtzes from his position following his disobedience in the siege of Antioch. Bourtzes was disgraced, and he would soon...
- September scored a major victory at the Battle of the Orontes against Bourtzes. Bourtzes' defeat forced Basil to intervene personally in the East; with his...
- September 994 between the Byzantines and their Hamdanid allies under Michael Bourtzes against the forces of the Fatimid vizier of Damascus, the Turkish general...
- was recovered for the Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas by Michael Bourtzes and the stratopedarches Peter. It soon became the seat of a doux, the civil...
- Thrace with impunity. In June 1050, another Byzantine army under Samuel Bourtzes was destro**** by the Pechenegs. In this battle, the general David Arianites...
- Nikephoros' wife Theophano and a number of disgruntled leading generals (Michael Bourtzes and Leo Balantes) to ********inate Nikephoros. After his coronation in December...
- who had just been dismissed as doux of Antioch; the vestarches Michael Bourtzes, whose namesake grandfather had captured Antioch for Byzantium a century...
- Emperor Basil II appointed him governor of Antioch in succession to Michael Bourtzes following the latter's defeat in the Battle of the Orontes in September...