Examples of using Nicephorus in English and their translations into Serbian
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Nicephorus Bryennius.
Born in May give the names of Nicephorus or Anton.
Patriarch Nicephorus took him into his service.
Two years later, Suleiman lent his support to another pretender, Nicephorus Melissenus.
Patriarch Nicephorus took him into his service.
Following the quelling of some civil unrest in the spring of 966, Nicephorus once again set out for the east.
At the spring of 965, Nicephorus once again collected his forces and departed for Cilicia.
With the capture of these two cities,Cilicia once again came under the suzerainty of Byzantium, and Nicephorus returned to Constantinople.
When Patriarch Tarasius died, Nicephorus was elected patriarch against his will.
Nicephorus did not cease the pillage of Syria until the spring of 969 when he returned to Constantinople.
When Patriarch Tarasius died, Nicephorus was elected patriarch against his will.
Nicephorus soon led his army to Antioch, where he set up a light siege and began to raid the countryside.
The city was then looted and razed, while Nicephorus deported all of its inhabitants.
From 961-962, Nicephorus led his armies into Cilicia, quickly taking Anazarbus.
Anastasius, the Papal Librarian, composed a Historia tripartita in Latin, from the chronicles of George Syncellus, Theophanes Confessor,and Patriarch Nicephorus.
When Patriarch Tarasius died, Nicephorus, much against his will, was chosen to succeed him.
Nicephorus quickly realized, after bombarding the city, that only a prolonged siege would manage to force Mopsuestia to capitulate.
This took place during the reign of Emperor Nicephorus who immediately, after that, went to war against the Bulgarians and was slain.
Nicephorus' strategy was not one of traditional Byzantine origin, but combined the tactics used by the Arabs with his own strategy.
In that, he was assisted by the Byzantine emperors:at first, Nicephorus Phocas, who himself thought to withdraw and to become a monk and, after him, John Tzimiskes.
Nicephorus retired to Byzantine territory for Easter, 962, and returned in the Autumn in order to drive al-Dawla, who was in Cilicia itself, out of the province.
Unfortunately for al-Dawla, Nicephorus now returned victorious from Crete with the majority of the Byzantine army.
Nicephorus implored Sapricius not to deny Christ, saying,“O my beloved brother, do not do that; do not deny our Lord Jesus Christ; do not forfeit the heavenly wreath!”.
In a war with the Bulgarians, Emperor Nicephorus was slain and Peter, with fifty Greek commanders and princes, was captured and cast into prison.
Soon, with the coming of winter, Nicephorus retreated to his regional capital of Caesarea, where he passed the season preparing for next year's campaigning season on the sieges of Mopsuestia and Tarsus.
In the fall of 967, Nicephorus captured many forts in southern Syria, and eventually came to Tripoli.
But let us remind ourselves of the words of St. Nicephorus quoted above:“You know, even if very few remain in Orthodoxy and piety, then it is precisely these that are the Church, and the authority and leadership of the ecclesiastical institutions remains with them.”.
It is no accident that military characters like Nicephorus Bryennius(11th and 12th centuries) and Joannes Cinnamus(12th century) emulated Xenophon in the precision of their diction, or that a philosopher like Nicephorus Gregoras(13th century) took Plato as his model.
