What was the vitriolic report of Liutprand of Cremona, whose insults towards the Byzantines created a caricature of the ...

Under Nikephoros II Phokas (963-969), Ioannes (John) Tzimiskes (969-976), and Basil II (976-1025) the embattled empire launched a series of successful counter-offensives against the Muslim Abbasid ...