Byzantine basil II: He took a Madonna to the battlefield and gouged out the enemy's eyes.

The horrors and mass killings committed by many monarchs all over the world in ancient and modern times may be covered up by Byzantines, including the Byzantine Emperor Basil II, who is known as the Bulgarian Slayer.

After defeating the Bulgarian army in 114, he blinded 15, prisoners of war, except for one percent, he took their comrades home with one eye, and other Byzantine emperors blinded and disabled the enemy. Therefore, Basil II is not unique.

This is revenge for Basil II's fiasco at the hands of Bulgarians 28 years ago.

However, most of the people who lost their sight after the battle may not have been alive 28 years ago.

However, this is the most notorious exploitation of the emperor, which defended the territory for his empire.

During his almost entire reign, including winter, Trying to gain glory and territory for the Byzantine Empire.

Basil II ruled for a long time from 976 to 125.

He ascended the throne at the age of 18, and died 49 years later.

He conquered Greece, the Balkans, Syria, Mesopotamia, Italy and Bulgaria, which doubled the size of the Byzantine Empire.

, Basil II will wear the icon of the Virgin Mary in the battle and be depicted as a painting with a halo. However, after he became an adult, he committed such atrocities, blinding the enemy and launching unnecessary wars.

It is speculated that he felt sacred protection and encouragement, and did terrible acts, which made thousands of young people blind, and in many known wars in the world, Because he wants revenge on the Byzantines and the authoritative earth.

In this miniature, Basil II is the coronation angel.

Pay attention to the halo on his head.

(public domain), Basil II doesn't seem to be vain.

He hasn't held many luxurious parties. Nor did he wear gorgeous jewelry or clothes.

Even the purple robe he wore was pale.

He never lived a luxurious and decadent life.

Some people say that he lived a simple monk's life. At the age of five, he and his younger brother Constantine were made joint emperors, but his mother lost control of the power center.

The late Emperor Romano's wife, Empress Theofeno, was their regent. She remarried with Nikiforo II Focas.

She unfortunately got married and murdered him while he was sleeping.

General John I Zimisky exiled their mother to a monastery and acted as the guardian of the boys.

Zimisky died in 976, and Basil, who was known as bardsley Uus, became emperor.

His brother Cecil was named as the co-emperor. But it was he who really ruled Basil II.

On April 22nd, 96, Basil II was crowned as the joint emperor by his father, Romanos II.

(in the field of public affairs), he was witty, but serious, and believed that he was devout.

He didn't trust anyone.

Therefore, he was not loved by the people, but his successful rule made him. His enemies were afraid of him.

Basil II was unmarried and had no children, so all the territory he gained and the power to consolidate the Byzantine empire were destroyed soon after his death.

The emperor had long been tested by the rebellion of a noble named Badas Scholes. Then he ensured his throne by checking the power of monasteries and nobles.

Both groups increased their power and wealth by seizing or buying land from farmers.

Basel tried to levy taxes on the overdue tax bills of the poor.

This failed and was abandoned by the later emperor. In 978/979, the armies of the Byzantine general Badas Clairaux and Badas Focas clashed. Manuscript from Sky City, Madrid.

(public domain), he further concentrated his power and allowed men in various provinces to pay him instead of serving in the army.

Because the allies lent him elite troops, he was able to reduce the manpower of the army.

He bought a new army that was more loyal to him with taxes, which helped him later.

986, Basil II was defeated by the Bulgarians at a mountain pass called the Gate of Trajan.

The Bulgarian king continued to seize territory from Byzantium until 8 years later on the 2nd, when Basil II retaliated and they regained it.

Interestingly, although Basil showed no mercy to the Bulgarian army, he showed no mercy to other Bulgarians, making them citizens. And bring their nobles into his power plan.

He also allowed Bulgarian churches to stand up, but reduced their bishops to archbishops.

The defeat of Bulgarians and the blindness of their troops dealt a fatal blow to Bulgarian King Samuel, and Byzantines defeated Bulgarians in Clayton Battle on Madrid skyline.

When Basil was not in Bulgaria, There were two rebellions.

Basil visited Vladimir I in Kiev, and Vladimir I agreed to help him in exchange for marrying Basil's sister.

In return, Vladimir, who was later baptized as a saint, became a Christian. One way Vladimir could help was that he had 6, Viking troops, which had land and naval forces.

When basire defeated the rebels, He had a different fate for each of the three military commanders: hanging, stabbing and crucifixion.

He also waged war in Syria, and he was not influenced by the rule of * * *.

The emperor himself entered the war in 995 and won.

He strangled the economy of * * * by restricting trade with the caliph.

After years of war, summer and winter, He returned to Greece as his empire.

Later, he added Plisca, Skopje, Dirakhon and many other cities. Basil II won the forum in Constantinople.

(in the field of public affairs), Basil continued his military operations until his death.

He added Georgia, Iberia and Armenia in 121 and 122. And tried to force the people to leave Sicily, their last stronghold in the west, but he died in December 125.

During his reign, Basil II almost doubled the empire, and the land of the empire was from Crimea to Crete, from Messina Strait to Danube River, to Arassis, Euphrates River (Mesopotamia) and Orantes River in the east. Above: A miniature depicting the Byzantine Emperor Basil II defeating Georgian King George I (George I of Abbas).

The skyline matrix, fol.195v Source: mark millar, an ancient writer.

He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and literature, and has been a newspaper writer and copywriter, and has long been interested in anthropology, mythology and ancient history.