Examples of using Doux in English and their translations into Turkish
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It even has a name… Doux Bebe.
In English, Doux Bebe means"Sweet Baby.
Just came in, Miss Le Doux.
In c. 1100, he was named doux(military governor) of Cyprus, and held that post at least until 1102/04.
The imperial government despatched the megas doux, Michael Stryphnos, to counter him.
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In 1165, Alexios himself was sent to Cilicia as commander-in-chief(strategos autokrator) and governor doux.
The megas doux also wore a rich silk tunic, the kabbadion, and could choose the fabric himself"from those that are in use.
By his wife Anna Komnene, the kaisar Nikephoros Bryennios had several children, including: Alexios Bryennios Komnenos,megas doux, c. 1102-c.
In December 999, Ouranos was appointed doux of Antioch in Syria, one of the most important Byzantine regional military commands.
Her maternal grandfather was named Adrianos Dalassenos,evidently a son of the magistros and doux of Antioch, Theophylact Dalassenos.
From this time the megas doux was also given overall control of the provinces of Hellas, the Peloponnese and Crete, which chiefly provided the manpower and resources for the fleet.
For his exploits, he was rewarded with Euboea as a fief and rose to the rank of megas konostaulos andmegas doux, the first foreigner to do so.
The megas doux(Greek: μέγας δούξ, pronounced,"grand duke") was one of the highest positions in the hierarchy of the later Byzantine Empire, denoting the commander-in-chief of the Byzantine navy.
The Gasmouloi played a role in the Byzantine civil war of 1341-1347, fiercely supporting their commander,the megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, against John VI Kantakouzenos.
Despite initial successes and reinforcements under megas doux Alexios Komnenos Bryennios, the expedition was ultimately defeated in 1156, and 4 Byzantine ships were captured.
John de lo Cavo or de Capite(Italian: Giovanni de lo Cavo) was a Genoese pirate captain who entered the service of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos and became lord of Anafi and Rhodes andmegas doux of the Byzantine navy.
The Smeraldina's Billet Doux' is a love letter to Belacqua in fractured English by the German-speaking Smeraldina Rima, a character based on Beckett's cousin Peggy Sinclair.
Michael VIII launched a major effort to recover as many Aegean islands as possible from Latin rule,spearheaded by the megas doux Alexios Doukas Philanthropenos and another Italian renegade, Licario.
In 1072-1073, he served as doux of Bulgaria, where he reimposed Byzantine control after a series of uprisings, and was afterwards elevated to the important position of doux of Dyrrhachium.
To defend against this new threat, towards the end of Andronikos III's reign a fleet of some 70 ships was built at Constantinople to oppose the Turkish raids,and headed by the megas doux Alexios Apokaukos.
The revolt ended on 2 July 1340, when the megas doux, John the Eunuch, who had murdered the young emperor Manuel II, arrived at Trebizond from Constantinople to assist the empress.
The Serbian Empire, established in 1346 by Tsar Stefan Dushan, adopted various Byzantine titles,among them that of megas doux, which became the"grand voivode"(veliki vojvoda), albeit without any naval connotations.
The office was initially created by Alexios I Komnenos(r. 1081-1118), who reformed the derelict Byzantine navy and amalgamated the remnants of its variousprovincial squadrons into a unified force under the megas doux.
Nothing is known of Ouranos after that date, although the fact that a successor as doux of Antioch was not appointed until 1011 may mean that he continued to occupy the office until that date.
At the same time, however, the then megas doux, Michael Stryphnos, was accused by Niketas Choniates of enriching himself by selling off the equipment of the imperial fleet, while by the early 13th century the authority of the central government had weakened to such an extent that various local potentates began seizing power in the provinces.
In response, Manuel I prepared a major counter-attack in 1167, appointing Andronikos,who months before had been named megas doux, commander-in-chief of the Byzantine navy, as the leader of the campaign, although he also gave him detailed instructions for the campaign.
John Doukas, the first known megas doux, led campaigns on both land and sea and was responsible for the re-establishment of firm Byzantine control over the Aegean and the islands of Crete and Cyprus in the years 1092-93 and over western Anatolia in 1097.
By 1169, the efforts of Manuel had evidently borne fruit, as a large and purely Byzantine fleet of about 150 galleys,10-12 large transports and 60 horse transports under megas doux Andronikos Kontostephanos was sent to invade Egypt in cooperation with the ruler of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
