{"slug": "strategos", "label": "Strategos", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategos", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335954", "qid": "Q335954", "description": "Greek military leader", "entries": 15, "years": 15, "span": [-429, 949], "span_label": ["430 BCE", "949 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 9}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "turkey", "label": "Turkey", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "anatolic-theme", "label": "Anatolic Theme", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "theme-byzantine-district", "label": "Theme (Byzantine district)", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kahramanmaras", "label": "Kahramanmaraş", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "michael-ii", "label": "Michael II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "uskudar", "label": "Üsküdar", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "leo-iii-the-isaurian", "label": "Leo III the Isaurian", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "september", "label": "September", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -429, "year_label": "430 BCE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Pericles becomes ill from the plague but he recovers, temporarily. He is deposed from his position as General (or Strategos) but is later reappointed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342662145#Greece", "title": "430 BC", "revid": 1342662145, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -419, "year_label": "420 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The young and popular Alcibiades is elected \"Strategos\" (one of a board of ten generals) and begins to dominate Athenian life and politics. A Quadruple Alliance of Athens, Argos, Mantineia and Elis, which has been organised by Alcibiades (in opposition to Nicias) confronts a Spartan-Boeotian alliance.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360316147#Greece", "title": "420 BC", "revid": 1360316147, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": 705, "year_label": "705 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Heraclius, Byzantine general (monostrategos)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807090#Deaths", "title": "705", "revid": 1340807090, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 717, "year_label": "717 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – Emperor Theodosios III is deposed after a reign of 1 year and 10 months. He is succeeded by the 32-year-old Leo III the Isaurian, a general (strategos) of the Anatolic Theme (modern Turkey). Theodosios and his son enter the clergy, and he probably becomes bishop of Ephesus. Leo brings an end to the Twenty Years' Anarchy in the Byzantine Empire, which marks the beginning of the so-called Isaurian Dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340808622#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "717", "revid": 1340808622, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 741, "year_label": "741 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Artabasdos, Byzantine general (strategos) of the Armeniac theme, defeats Constantine V and advances on Constantinople, where he is crowned emperor. He secures the support of the themes of Thrace and Opsikion, and abandons Leo's religious policy of iconoclasm. Constantine seeks the support of the Anatolic theme.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1322653390#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "741", "revid": 1322653390, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 778, "year_label": "778 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor Leo IV (\"the Khazar\") repulses an Abbasid invasion in Anatolia. A Byzantine expeditionary force under Michael Lachanodrakon, military governor (strategos) of the Thracesian Theme, defeats the Muslim-Arabs at the fortress city of Germanikeia in Cilicia (modern Turkey). He plunders the region and takes many captives, mostly Jacobites, who are resettled in Thrace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267081416#Arab_Caliphate_and_Byzantine_Empire", "title": "778", "revid": 1267081416, "section": "Events › By place › Arab Caliphate and Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 790, "year_label": "790 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September", "text": "September – The Armeniac Theme, located in northeastern Asia Minor (modern Turkey), revolts against Empress Irene, and declares the 19-year-old Constantine VI sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. Other themes follow its example, and imprison their strategoi. Constantine sends his iconoclast general Michael Lachanodrakon, to ensure that the Armeniacs (his closest supporters) take an oath. Irene is confined and imprisoned in her palace at Constantinople; all her eunuchs are exiled.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848291#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "790", "revid": 1340848291, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 792, "year_label": "792 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Michael Lachanodrakon, Byzantine general (strategos)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364906591#Deaths", "title": "792", "revid": 1364906591, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 803, "year_label": "803 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Bardanes Tourkos, Byzantine general (strategos), is proclaimed emperor by the troops of the Anatolic, Opsikion, Thracian and Bucellarian themes. The 'rebel' army marches to Chrysopolis, a suburb of Constantinople. After the defection of two of his trusted aides, future emperors Leo the Armenian and Michael the Amorian, Bardanes negotiates peace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848789#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "803", "revid": 1340848789, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 812, "year_label": "812 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Republic of Amalfi sends galleys to support the Byzantine general (strategos) of Sicily, Gregorio, against the Aghlabid invaders. It is one of the earliest evidences of the independence of the city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345909676#Europe", "title": "812", "revid": 1345909676, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 822, "year_label": "822 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Gregory Pterotos, Byzantine general (strategos)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267074664#Deaths", "title": "822", "revid": 1267074664, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 841, "year_label": "841 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Constantine Kontomytes, Byzantine general (strategos) of the Thracesian Theme, inflicts a severe defeat on the Cretan Saracens. He leads a Byzantine expeditionary force, to raid the monastic community near Mount Latros (modern Turkey).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360650312#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "841", "revid": 1360650312, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 921, "year_label": "921 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Landulf I, prince of Benevento, supports an anti-Greek Apulian rebellion, ravaging several Byzantine strongpoints as far as Ascoli. The Apulian nobility, professing loyalty to the Byzantine Empire, appoints Landulf as stratego of the Theme of Longobardia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509617#Europe", "title": "921", "revid": 1341509617, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 934, "year_label": "934 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Melias, Byzantine general (strategos)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512094#Deaths", "title": "934", "revid": 1341512094, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 949, "year_label": "949 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Arab-Byzantine War: Hamdanid forces under Sayf al-Dawla raid into the theme of Lykandos, but are defeated. The Byzantines counter-attack and seize Germanikeia, defeating an army from Tarsus, and raiding as far south as Antioch. General (strategos) Theophilos Kourkouas captures Theodosiopolis (modern-day Erzurum) after a 7-month siege.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365592042#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "949", "revid": 1365592042, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}