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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;panzerman, post: 4211166, member: 77704&quot;]AV Solidus ND Constantinople Mint</p><p>Nicephorus/ son Stauricus 802-12AD</p><p>Byzantine Empire</p><p><br /></p><p>He organized a coup against Irene/ Byzantine Empress with the help of the disgruntled army/ nobles / enuchs....</p><p>Now he made himself Emperor, some of the Army generals organized a palace coup against him, but wherearrested and blinded as punishment.</p><p>By 803 he made his son Stauricus co-Emperor. He started a new foreign policy of not paying off his enemies. This started a War with Venice which he won. Next up, Harun al-Rashid the Umayyad Caliph mad about not getting his tribute money declared War on the Empire. He won a major victory over the Byzantine army at Krasos in 805. Then, Harun with 135K Arabs invaded the Byzantine Empire, seeing the light, Nicephorus agreed to pay him 50K AV Nomisma to make a truce, and pay the Arabs 30K Nomisma to be nice. In 809, Harun al-Rashid died, leading to a bitter succession struggle in Arabland. Now, he finally had the opportunity, to rid himself of the pesky Bulgars, in the Northwestern Front. In 811 He and his son headed a large Byzantine invasion army into Bulgaria. They defeated the Bulgar Khan &quot;Krum&quot; twice, and moved on to the Capital/ Pliska. Once there they totally sacked/ pillaged/ looted the City, to add insult to injury, also raped/ murdered the inhabitants, including the little kids. Laden down with booty, the victotious Bzyantine army marched back towards Constantinople. Meanwhile, Krum got back to Pliska and saw red, he decided to ambush the Byzantine Army in a mountain pass. They caught Nicephorus and crew with their pants down, wiped them out. Nicephorus was taken captive and sent to Pliska . Krum had his executioner remove his head, later made a &quot;drinking cup&quot; from the skull.[ATTACH=full]1079332[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1079332[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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