Called by Brownworth the most superb fighter of his day and perhaps the greatest general since Belisarius, Nikephoros reconquered Crete after 136 years of Muslim rule, captured over 55 walled cities in a single season, and sacked Aleppo — earning the nickname "White Death of the Saracens." He later reconquered Tarsus, Cyprus, Aleppo, and most spectacularly Antioch, yet squandered his popularity through ruinous taxation, a disastrous western foreign policy, and his wife Theophano's conspiracy, which ended in his brutal murder in his bedroom.
Also known as: Nikephoros Phokas · Nicephorus II · White Death of the Saracens
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Called by Brownworth the most superb fighter of his day and perhaps the greatest general since Belisarius, Nikephoros reconquered Crete after 136 years of Muslim rule, captured over 55 walled cities in a single season, and sacked Aleppo — earning the nickname "White Death of the Saracens." He later reconquered Tarsus, Cyprus, Aleppo, and most spectacularly Antioch, yet squandered his popularity through ruinous taxation, a disastrous western foreign policy, and his wife Theophano's conspiracy, which ended in his brutal murder in his bedroom.
“of Aleppo, earning the nickname White Death of the Saracens.”
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