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CONSTANTINE X

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 992 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR
CONSTANTINE X . Ducas, emperor 10591067, succeeded Isaac I. Comnenus (q.v.). But the choice was not justified, for
Constantine
 , who as the friend and minister of Isaac had shown himself a capable statesman and financier, proved incompetent as an emperor. He devoted himself to philosophical trifling,
petty
  administrative and judicial details, while his craze for
economy
  developed into avarice. He reduced the army, cut down the soldiers' pay, failed to keep up the
supply
  of war material, and neglected the frontier fortresses at a time when the Seljuk Turks were pressing hard upon the eastern portion of the
empire
 . Alp Arslan, the successor of Toghrul Beg, overran Armenia in 1064, and destroyed its
capital
  Ani. The
Magyars
  occupied Belgrade, the Petchenegs (Patzinaks) continued their inroads, and in 1o65 the Uzes (called by the Greeks Comani), a Turkish tribe from the shores of the Euxine, crossed the
Danube
  in vast numbers, ravaged Thrace and Macedonia, and penetrated as far as Thessalonica. The
empire
  was only saved by an outbreak of plague amongst the invaders and the bravery of the Bulgarian peasants. In the year before
Constantine
 's death the remnant of the Byzantine possessions in Italy was finally lost to the empire, and the
chief
  town, Bari, taken by the Normans.
For the later Constantines references to general authorities will be found under ROMAN EMPIRE, LATER; see also
CALIPHATE
  and SELTuies for the wars of the period.


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