Phocas
547 CE–610 CE · Constantinople
Phocas was Byzantine emperor from 602 to 610, an army officer who seized power in a mutiny against Maurice, whom he had executed along with his sons. His reign is generally judged a disaster: the Sasanian shah Khosrow II invaded on the pretext of avenging Maurice, overrunning much of the eastern provinces, while internal repression bred revolt. In 610 Heraclius, son of the exarch of Carthage, sailed against Constantinople, and Phocas was captured and put to death. He is often depicted in later tradition as a tyrant whose usurpation opened a period of grave crisis.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Phocas’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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Rulers world
- Emperor Wen of Sui· 541 CE–604 CE
- Maurice· 539 CE–602 CE
- Empress Suiko· 554 CE–628 CE
- Emperor Yang of Sui· 569 CE–618 CE
- Prince Shotoku· 574 CE–622 CE
- Khosrow II Parviz· 570 CE–628 CE
- Hormizd IV· –590 CE
- Pulakeshin II· –642 CE
- Heraclius· 575 CE–641 CE
- Khosrow I Anushirvan· 512 CE–579 CE
- Harsha· 590 CE–647 CE
- K'an II· 588 CE–658 CE
- Justinian I· 482 CE–565 CE
- Bumin Qaghan· –552 CE
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