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CONSTANTINE X

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 992 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONSTANTINE X . See also:Ducas, See also:emperor 1059–1067, succeeded See also:Isaac I. See also:Comnenus (q.v.). But the choice was not justified, for Constantine, who as the friend and See also:minister of Isaac had shown himself a capable statesman and financier, proved incompetent as an emperor. He devoted himself to philosophical trifling, See also:petty administrative and judicial details, while his craze for See also:economy See also:developed into avarice. He reduced the See also:army, cut down the soldiers' pay, failed to keep up the See also:supply of See also:war material, and neglected the frontier fortresses at a See also:time when the Seljuk See also:Turks were pressing hard upon the eastern portion of the See also:empire. See also:Alp Arslan, the successor of Toghrul Beg, overran See also:Armenia in 1064, and destroyed its See also:capital See also:Ani. The See also:Magyars occupied See also:Belgrade, the See also:Petchenegs (Patzinaks) continued their inroads, and in 1o65 the See also:Uzes (called by the Greeks Comani), a See also:Turkish tribe from the shores of the Euxine, crossed the See also:Danube in vast See also:numbers, ravaged See also:Thrace and See also:Macedonia, and penetrated as far as Thessalonica. The empire was only saved by an outbreak of See also:plague amongst the invaders and the bravery of the Bulgarian peasants. In the See also:year before Constantine's See also:death the remnant of the See also:Byzantine possessions in See also:Italy was finally lost to the empire, and the See also:chief See also:town, See also:Bari, taken by the See also:Normans. For the later Constantines references to See also:general authorities will be found under See also:ROMAN EMPIRE, LATER; see also See also:CALIPHATE and SELTuies for the See also:wars of the See also:period.

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