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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 448 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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East See also:Roman See also:emperor (602-610), was a Cappadocian of humble origin. He was still but a See also:centurion when chosen by the See also:army of the See also:Danube to See also:lead it against See also:Constantinople. A revolt within the See also:city soon afterwards resulted in the See also:abdication of the reigning emperor See also:Maurice, and in the See also:elevation of Phocas to the See also:throne, which seems to have been accomplished by one of the See also:circus factions against the wish of the troops. Phocas proved entirely incapable of governing the See also:empire. He consented to pay an increased See also:tribute to the See also:Avars and allowed the Persians, who had declared See also:war in 604 under See also:Chosroes II., to overrun the See also:Asiatic provinces and to penetrate to the See also:Bosporus. When the See also:African See also:governor See also:Heraclius declared against him, Phocas was deserted by the starving populace of Constantinople, and deposed with scarcely a struggle (61o). He died in the same See also:year on the See also:scaffold. See J. B. See also:Bury, The Later Roman Empire (See also:London, 1889), ii. 197-206.

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