Alexios I Komnenos

Byzantine emperor (1048–1118)

The Alexiad () is a medieval historical and biographical text written around the year 1148, by the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene, daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. It was written in a form of artificial Attic Greek. Anna described the political and military history of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, thus providing a significant account on the Byzantium of the High Middle Ages. Among other topics, the Alexiad documents the Byzantine Empire's interaction with the Crusades and highlights the conflicting perceptions of the East and West in the early 12th century. It do

1097 The siege of Nicaea

thumb|250px|right|Hyperpyron of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (r. 1143–1180), showing its typical [[scyphate (cup-shaped) form.]]The hyperpyron (, nómisma hypérpyron ) was a Byzantine coin in use during the late Middle Ages, replacing the solidus as the Byzantine Empire's standard gold coinage in the 11th century. It was introduced by emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

1108 treaty following the First Crusade

monastery in Cyprus

Grand Prince of Serbia

1082 treaty between Venice and the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine writer

11th-century Byzantine military leader and martyr

Byzantine philosopher and theologian

monastery in Kastoria, Greece

Byzantine pretender

Byzantine diplomat

church building in Episkopi Gonias, South Aegean, Greece

Bogomil leader

Karykes (, Latinised Caryces) was the Byzantine governor of Crete who led a rebellion that began in 1090 or 1091 and lasted into 1092 or 1093 during the reign of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. The principal narrative sources for the revolt are Anna Komnene and Joannes Zonaras, but they provide few details. The historian Michael Glykas confuses this revolt with the contemporary revolt of Rhapsomates in Cyprus.

The archontopouloi () were an elite military formation of the Byzantine army during the Komnenian era, in the 11th-12th centuries. They were founded by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos () as part of his military reforms and were recruited among the orphans of Byzantine officers who were killed in battle.