Examples of using Doukas in English and their translations into Russian
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After Thessaly's ruler John II Doukas r.
Doukas attended several artist's exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Andronikos himself was a first cousin of Michael VII Doukas.
According to Doukas, Junayd claimed to be operating on behalf of Süleyman.
Michael was the illegitimate son of the sebastokrator John Doukas.
John was the eldest son of Theodore Komnenos Doukas and Maria Petraliphaina.
Andronikos Doukas was son of the Caesar John Doukas and Eirene Pegonitissa.
In 1244, John died and was succeeded by his younger brother Demetrios Komnenos Doukas.
According to Doukas, even with the men from Karaman, Junayd's forces numbered barely 1,000 men.
In 1292, he was wed to Maria, the daughter of Despot Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas, ruler of Epirus.
Doukas, on the contrary, says that the harbour was filled with stones to block ships.
Even the local barons started to melt away, and soon John Doukas was left hopelessly outnumbered.
His older brother Nicholas Orsini had made himself ruler of Epirus in 1318 by murdering their maternal uncle Thomas I Komnenos Doukas.
Soon after, the Byzantine historian Doukas reports Turahan's presence on the shores of the Black Sea.
Born between 1180 and 1185,Theodore was a son of the sebastokrator John Doukas and of Zoe Doukaina.
At birth, Anna was betrothed to Constantine Doukas, the son of Emperor Michael VII and Maria of Alania.
Even after Doukas's overthrow by Nikephoros III Botaneiates(r. 1078-1081), Bryennios continued his revolt, and threatened Constantinople.
The first known member of the family is Alexios Doukas Philanthropenos, first attested circa 1255 as a commander at Ohrid.
In 1236, Constantinople was besieged by the combined forces of Ivan AsenII of Bulgaria and John III Doukas Vatatzes of the Empire of Nicaea.
Irene was born in 1066 to Andronikos Doukas and Maria of Bulgaria, granddaughter of Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria.
In 1259 Michael VIII defeated the alliance of William of Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea, and Michael II Komnenos Doukas of Epirus at the Battle of Pelagonia.
Thomas was the son of Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas and Anna Palaiologina Kantakouzene, a niece of Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
In 905, however, Melias was expelled from the Byzantine Empire(along with other Armenian nobles) in the aftermath of the failed rebellion of Andronikos Doukas against the Emperor Leo VI the Wise r.
Bryennios had rebelled against Michael VII Doukas(r. 1071-1078) and had won over the allegiance of the Byzantine army's regular regiments in the Balkans.
The resistance was soon joined by a certain Michael, identified by many scholars with Michael I Komnenos Doukas(1204-1215) who was then creating his own principality in Epiros.
Emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes of Nicaea concluded an alliance with Bulgaria, which in 1235 resulted in joint campaign against the Latin Empire.
Having been blinded, Theodore could not claim thethrone for himself and crowned his son John Komnenos Doukas, but remained the actual power behind the throne and virtual regent.
According to Doukas, Mustafa was sent to the island of Lemnos, while Junayd was cloistered in the monastery of Pammakaristos Church in Constantinople.
In 1318 he surprised and murdered his uncle Thomas I Komnenos Doukas of Epirus and easily subdued the entire southern portion of the principality around Arta.
A Michael Doukas Philanthropenos, epi tes trapezes and uncle of Andronikos II, is attested from 1286 to 1304, when he was sent to defend Magnesia from the Turks.