A competent soldier later in life and a relatively feared man among his own people who directed most of the military energy of the state towards Bulgaria for decades. That's just about it really.
Hopeless map painter whose obsession with wiping Bulgaria out caused him to overextend his empire's borders beyond its ability to defend them and die without leaving any strong successor.
Baby's first "favororite emperor".
He scorned everyone to enrich soldiers and create a large standing army, which coudn't be sustained in the long run, on the top of that, he left successfull farmers and nobilite with nothing. Also he didn't left and heir.
>enrich soldiers and create a large standing army
There isn't really any account that he deliberately increased the salary of soldiers but the latter part had been true for the past 70 years, he was just the last Emperor in that chain
A competent soldier later in life and a relatively feared man among his own people who directed most of the military energy of the state towards Bulgaria for decades. That's just about it really.
Hopeless map painter whose obsession with wiping Bulgaria out caused him to overextend his empire's borders beyond its ability to defend them and die without leaving any strong successor.
>slaughter fellow christians
>orthodogs make you a saint
Seethe b***h. Orthodox don't hide their crimes like the gergays, they are boast about them.
Literally rent free
Then why you homosexuals cry all the time about the evil latins ?
Byzantium stopped being roman after heraclius death
Bizantyne Orthodogsy is the most meme denomination that ever existed. It's everything that a good Christian should not be
Huehuehue
Of Rome you nog, Byzantine is just a fancy name used to distinguish a specific period of Roman history in retrospect, not the state he ruled.
Byzantine is greek
Rome ended in 641, dumb byzaboo
He was called the bulgarslayer because he slayed a bunch of bulgars
wasn't he the guy who would blind 99% of an army then let the others return to tell the story.
He had no children so modern historians think he's a gay
Wtf I didn’t know Brazilians were this cool
Based macacos
Baby's first "favororite emperor".
He scorned everyone to enrich soldiers and create a large standing army, which coudn't be sustained in the long run, on the top of that, he left successfull farmers and nobilite with nothing. Also he didn't left and heir.
>enrich soldiers and create a large standing army
There isn't really any account that he deliberately increased the salary of soldiers but the latter part had been true for the past 70 years, he was just the last Emperor in that chain
>Didn't leave an heir.
Literally THE most important job in a fricking autocracy.
Come to Brasil