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Theophanu Skleraina (; also Theophania, Theophana, Theophane or Theophano; ; 955 15 June 991) was empress of the Holy Roman Empire by marriage to Emperor Otto II, and regent of the Empire during the minority of their son, Emperor Otto III, from 983 until her death in 991. She was the niece of the Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimiskes. Theophanu was known to be a forceful and capable ruler, and her status in the history of the Empire was in many ways exceptional. Her official titles contained 'consors imperii', which her stepmother Adelaide of Italy already received and 'comperatrix augusta', whic

Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr, commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi or al-Muqaddasī,, meaning Jerusalemite, was a medieval Arab geographer, author of The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions and Description of Syria (Including Palestine).

Emperor of Japan

Buyid shiite scholar

25th Doge of Venice (-991)

10th-century Byzantine general

Patriarch of Constantinople

Marquess of Montferrat

Egyptian Vizier under the Fatimids from 979 to 991

Middle Heian period waka poet

Japanese writer

thumb|Nakatsukasa by Kanō Yasunobu, 1648 Nakatsukasa (中務, 912–991) was a Japanese Waka poet from the middle Heian period.

Italian noble

Song Dynasty general (925-991)

Hamdanid ruler of Aleppo from 967 to 991

noble

Bishop of Passau, 10th Century

Bakjur was a Circassian military slave (mamluk or ghulam) who served the Hamdanids of Aleppo and later the Fatimids of Egypt. He seized control of Aleppo in 975 and governed it until 977, when the rightful Hamdanid ruler, Sa'd al-Dawla, regained it. Given the governorship of Homs, in 983 he went over to the Fatimids and launched an attack on Aleppo, which was defeated through the intervention of Byzantine troops. Bakjur then became governor of Damascus for the Fatimids until 988. He made a last attempt to capture Aleppo in 991, which again was defeated thanks to Byzantine assistance. Bakjur wa

king

thumb|Statue of Byrhtnoth in Maldon, Essex created by John Doubleday Byrhtnoth (), Ealdorman of Essex ( 931 – 11 August 991), died at the Battle of Maldon. His name is composed of the Old English beorht (bright) and nōþ (courage). He is the subject of The Battle of Maldon, an Old English poem; J.R.R. Tolkien's short play in verse, ''The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son''; and a modern statue at Maldon.