Joan Mervyn Hussey
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LOCATION: Egham, United Kingdom
Emeritus Professor of History, Royal Holloway College, University of London. Author of The Byzantine World and others.
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Basil II was a Byzantine emperor (976–1025), who extended imperial rule in the Balkans (notably Bulgaria), Mesopotamia, Georgia, and Armenia and increased his domestic authority by attacking the powerful landed interests of the military aristocracy and of the church. The reign of Basil II, widely…
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