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Athens, 2019. In English. Soft cover, 21 cm, 188 pp. ISBN: 9789600235395.A detailed monograph on the career of the rebel ex-governor of Byzantine Cyprus, Isaac(ius) Ducas Comnenus, who succeeded in setting up an independent "Territorialstaat" from the last Comnenus and the first Angelus emperors of Constantinople, between A.D. 1184/85 and 1191, ruling despotically with the title basileus, thwarting in collusion with the Normans of Sicily a menacing Constantinopolitan expedition against him (1186/87) and even minting his own coinage there. Following his defeat by a landing force of the knights of the Third Crusade (1191), he was forced to surrender his possessions and territories to the English crusader king Richard I Lionheart. His seven-year tumultuous regime, which was to earn him countless negative assessments from a variety of divergent contemporary and later primary sources (Greek, Latin and Oriental), was associated with the final period of Byzantine rule -albeit of a separatist nature- in…
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ON ISAAC DUCAS COMNENUS CYPRIOT «SEPARATIST» STATE (A.D. 1184/85-1191): THE LAST OF THE CYPRIOT REVOLTS AGAINST BYZANTIUM
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