Byzantine Sicily

Byzantine general and Catepan of Italy

Mizizios or Mezezius (; or ) was an Armenian noble who served as a general of Byzantium, later usurping the Byzantine throne in Sicily from 668 to 669.

Byzantine province

Byzantine admiral

Artabanes (, Armenian: Artawan, from Parthian Artawân, fl. 538–554) was an Byzantine general of Armenian origin who served under Justinian I (). Initially a rebel against Byzantine authority, he fled to the Sassanid Persians but soon returned to Byzantine allegiance. He served in Africa, where he won great fame by killing the rebel general Guntharic and restoring the province to imperial allegiance. He became engaged to Justinian's niece Praejecta, but did not marry her due to the opposition of the Empress Theodora. Recalled to Constantinople, he became involved in a failed conspiracy against

siege that was part of the Muslim invasion of the Byzantine Empire

9th-century siege in Sicily

888 naval battle

Byzantine official

conducted by the Aghlabids against Syracuse in Sicily, then a possession of the Byzantine Empire