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Basil II

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Basil II (c. 958-1025)

Byzantine emperor 976-1025. He completed the work of his predecessors Nicephorus (II) Phocas and John Zimisces and expanded the borders of the Byzantine Empire to their greatest extent since the 5th century. He eliminated political rivals, drove the Muslims from Syria, and destroyed the power of the Bulgars.

Basil's decisive defeat of the Bulgarians in 1014 earned him the title ‘Bulgar-Slayer’. After the battle he blinded almost all 15,000 of the defeated, leaving only a few men with one eye to lead their fellows home.
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Writing with as much irreverence as intelligence ('The only good thing that can be said of the reign of the Emperor Alexander is that it was short"), Norwich follows the empire's trajectory upward from the founding of the city by Constantine the Great to its apogee in the tenth century under Basil II, the Bulgar-Slayer.
Sahara Unveiled by Cahill, Elizabeth Kirkland / Commonweal
There followed the Councils of Lyons (1245), and Florence (1438-45) and other ecclesiastical events up until 1452, when Prince Basil II of Moscow rejected the proclamation of the Acts of the Council of Florence by the Kievan metropolitan Isidore, and imprisoned Isidore in Moscow.
Union of Brest: Russian Orthodoxy was established in non-Russian ... by Roman Danylak / Catholic Insight
Writing with as much irreverence as intelligence ('The only good thing that can be said of the reign of the Emperor Alexander is that it was short"), Norwich follows the empire's trajectory upward from the founding of the city by Constantine the Great to its apogee in the tenth century under Basil II, the Bulgar-Slayer.
Mani by Cahill, Elizabeth Kirkland / Commonweal
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