Bardas Phokas the Elder

878–968

Byzantine general

military leader

Born in Cappadocia

Contemporaries

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• Ferdowsi (940–1020)
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• Abu Bakr al-Razi (866–925)
• Farabi (870–951)
• Otto I the Great (912–973)
• Ibn al-Haytham (965–1039)

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