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- Basil_II abstract "Basil II (Greek: Βασίλειος Β΄, Vasileios II; 958 – 15 December 1025) was a Byzantine Emperor from the Macedonian dynasty who reigned from 10 January 976 to 15 December 1025. He was known in his time as Basil the Porphyrogenitus and Basil the Young to distinguish him from his supposed ancestor, Basil I the Macedonian.The early years of his long reign were dominated by civil war against powerful generals from the Anatolian aristocracy. Following their submission, Basil oversaw the stabilization and expansion of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine Empire, and above all, the final and complete subjugation of Bulgaria, the Empire's foremost European foe, after a prolonged struggle. For this he was nicknamed by later authors as "the Bulgar-slayer" (Greek: Βουλγαροκτόνος, Boulgaroktonos), by which he is popularly known. At his death, the Empire stretched from Southern Italy to the Caucasus and from the Danube to the borders of Palestine, its greatest territorial extent since the Muslim conquests four centuries earlier.Despite near-constant warfare, Basil also showed himself a capable administrator, reducing the power of the great land-owning families who dominated the Empire's administration and military, while filling the Empire's treasury. Of far-reaching importance was Basil's decision to offer the hand of his sister Anna to Vladimir I of Kiev in exchange for military support, which led to the Christianization of the Kievan Rus' and the incorporation of later successor nations of Kievan Rus' within the Byzantine cultural and religious tradition.".
- Basil_II activeYearsEndYear "0976".
- Basil_II activeYearsStartYear "0960".
- Basil_II parent Romanos_II.
- Basil_II predecessor John_I_Tzimiskes.
- Basil_II successor Constantine_VIII.
- Basil_II thumbnail Basilios_II.jpg?width=300.
- Basil_II title "Emperorof theByzantine Empire".
- Basil_II wikiPageExternalLink books?id=Wux0lWbxs1kC.
- Basil_II wikiPageExternalLink basilii.htm.
- Basil_II wikiPageExternalLink cambridgemedieva05buryuoft.
- Basil_II wikiPageExternalLink Observations_on_Basil_II_as_Patron_of_the_Arts.
- Basil_II wikiPageExternalLink _Un_altro_cielo_limperatore_Basilio_II_e_le_arti.
- Basil_II wikiPageID "46426".
- Basil_II wikiPageLength "40064".
- Basil_II wikiPageOutDegree "213".
- Basil_II wikiPageRevisionID "683886080".
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Abu_Muhammad_Lulu_al-Kabir.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Abu_Qubays.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Adrianople.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Adriatic_Sea.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Al-Aziz.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Al-Aziz_Billah.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Al-Hakim_bi-Amr_Allah.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Aleppo.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Anatolia.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Anna_Porphyrogenita.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Antioch.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Apamea,_Syria.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Armenia.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Armenians.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Ashot_Taronites.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Asia_Minor.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Athens.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Athinganoi.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Baalbek.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Bagratid_Armenia.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Bagratuni_Kingdom_of_Armenia.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Bakırköy.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Barbarian.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Bardas_Phokas_the_Younger.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Bardas_Skleros.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Basil_I.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Basil_I_the_Macedonian.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Basil_Lekapenos.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Kleidion.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Kreta.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Skopje.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Spercheios.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_the_Gates_of_Trajan.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_the_Orontes.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Black_Sea.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Blood_Feud_(novel).
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Boris_II_of_Bulgaria.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Byzantine_Emperor.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Byzantine_Empire.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Byzantine_army.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:1000s_in_the_Byzantine_Empire.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:1020s_in_the_Byzantine_Empire.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:1025_deaths.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:10th-century_Byzantine_emperors.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:11th-century_Byzantine_emperors.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:958_births.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:960s_in_the_Byzantine_Empire.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:970s_in_the_Byzantine_Empire.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:980s_in_the_Byzantine_Empire.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:990s_in_the_Byzantine_Empire.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:Basil_II.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:Byzantine_people_of_the_Arab–Byzantine_wars.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:Byzantine_people_of_the_Byzantine–Bulgarian_Wars.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:Macedonian_dynasty.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:Medieval_child_rulers.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:Orthodox_monarchs.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Category:Porphyrogennetoi.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Chersonesos_Taurica.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Chersonesus.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Christianization_of_Kievan_Rus.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Cilicia.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Constantine_I.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Constantine_VII.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Constantine_VIII.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Constantine_the_Great.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Constantinople.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Crimea.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Crimean_Peninsula.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Damascus.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Damian_Dalassenos.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Danube.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Danube_River.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink David_III_Kuropalates.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink David_III_of_Tao.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Durrës.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Dux.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Dynatoi.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Dyrrhachium.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Edirne.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Emirate_of_Aleppo.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Epitaph_on_the_tomb_of_Basil_II.
- Basil_II wikiPageWikiLink Eudokia_Ingerina.