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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 392 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILIPPICUS , See also:

East See also:Roman See also:emperor, 711-713, was the son of the patrician Nicephorus, and became distinguished as a soldier under Justinian II. His proper name, which indicates his Armenian origin, was Bardanes. Relying on the support of the Monothelite party, he made some pretensions to the See also:throne on the outbreak of the first See also:great See also:rebellion against Justinian; these led to his relegation to See also:Cephalonia by Tiberius Absimarus, and subsequently to his banishment, by See also:order of Justinian, to Cherson. Here Bardanes, taking the name of Philippicus, successfully incited the inhabitants to revolt, and on the assassination of Justinian he at once assumed the See also:purple. Among his first acts were the deposition of See also:Cyrus, the orthodox See also:patriarch of See also:Constantinople, in favour of See also:John, a member of his own See also:sect, and the summoning of a conciliabulum of Eastern bishops, which abolished the canons of the See also:sixth See also:general See also:council. Meanwhile Terbelis, See also:king of the Bulgarians, plundered up to the walls of Constantinople, and shortly afterwards the See also:Saracens made similar inroads from the See also:Asiatic See also:side. The reign of Philippicus was brought to a See also:close through a See also:conspiracy headed by two of his generals, who caused him to be blinded. See See also:Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman See also:Empire (ed. See also:Bury, See also:London, 1896), v. 183-184.

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