Ruler · 547 – 610

Phocas

Lived 547 – 610; politician, military personnel. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 602 – 610.

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Lived: 547 – 610; 63 years
In office: 8 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: executed; Wikidata's manner of death

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 31st of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

27 before

Ino Anastasia578 – 582

Phocas602 – 610

Heraclius Constantine641

79 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 602 – 610 · 8 years · came to it aged 55

Left it: executedWikidata's manner of death: decapitation

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