{"slug": "bardas-skleros", "label": "Bardas Skleros", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardas_Skleros", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q744590", "qid": "Q744590", "description": "10th-century Byzantine general", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [970, 991], "span_label": ["970 CE", "991 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "bardas-phokas-the-younger", "label": "Bardas Phokas the Younger", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "basil-ii", "label": "Basil II", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "varangians", "label": "Varangians", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "bosphorus", "label": "Bosphorus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "varangian-guard", "label": "Varangian Guard", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "uskudar", "label": "Üsküdar", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dardanelles", "label": "Dardanelles", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "political-mutilation-in-byzantine-culture", "label": "Political mutilation in Byzantine culture", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "abydos-hellespont", "label": "Abydos, Hellespont", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "first-bulgarian-empire", "label": "First Bulgarian Empire", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 970, "year_label": "970 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor John I delegates the war in the Balkans to his brother-in-law, the Domestic of the Schools Bardas Skleros, and to the eunuch general Peter Phokas, who begin to gather a Byzantine army in Thrace. At the news of this, a powerful Kievan expeditionary force (30,000 men), along with many Bulgarians and a Pecheneg contingent, is sent south over the Balkan Mountains. After sacking the Bulgarian stronghold of Philippolis (modern-day Plovdiv), they bypass the heavily defended city of Adrianople, and turn towards Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365261460#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "970", "revid": 1365261460, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 978, "year_label": "978 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Pankaleia: Rebel forces under General Bardas Skleros are defeated by the Byzantine army loyal to Emperor Basil II, commanded by General Bardas Phokas (the Younger), near Pankaleia (modern-day Hisarköy). Phokas regroups his forces and continues his march to the East, drawing Skleros away from Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365272344#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "978", "revid": 1365272344, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 979, "year_label": "979 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 24", "text": "March 24 – Second Battle of Pankaleia: An Ibero-Byzantine expeditionary force, under General Bardas Phokas (the Younger), inflicts a crushing defeat on the rebels of General Bardas Skleros, at Sarvenis (modern Turkey). Skleros manages to escape, and finds shelter with his Muslim allies. The rebellion is subdued without difficulty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341908361#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "979", "revid": 1341908361, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 987, "year_label": "987 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 7", "text": "February 7 – Bardas Phokas (the Younger) and Bardas Skleros, two members of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II. They overrun Anatolia, and Phokas declares himself Emperor. Basil applies for military assistance from Prince Vladimir the Great, ruler of Kievan Rus', who agrees to help him and sends a Varangian army (6,000 men).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468366#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "987", "revid": 1364468366, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 988, "year_label": "988 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Fall – Emperor Basil II, supported by a contingent of 6,000 Varangians (the future Varangian Guard), organizes the defences of Constantinople to meet a threat from the insurgents, Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros. Basil crosses the Bosphorus, and leads a surprise attack on the rebel camp of Kalokyros Delphinas, at Chrysopolis. Delphinas is captured and executed, either by crucifixion or by impalement (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364920019#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "988", "revid": 1364920019, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 989, "year_label": "989 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Basil II uses his contingent of 6,000 Varangians to help him defeat Bardas Phokas (the Younger), who suffers a seizure during the siege of Abydos (threatening to blockade the Dardanelles). Phokas dies, ending the revolt and threat to Constantinople. Upon Phokas' death, the other rebel leader Bardas Skleros (who is captured and blinded) yields to Basil's superior forces.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357624689#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "989", "revid": 1357624689, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 991, "year_label": "991 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 2", "text": "April 2 – Bardas Skleros, Byzantine general", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365261005#Deaths", "title": "991", "revid": 1365261005, "section": "Deaths"}}]}