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Comnenus

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Comnenus [kɒmˈniːnəs]
n
(Historical Terms) an important Byzantine family from which the imperial dynasties of Constantinople (1057-59; 1081-1185) and Trebizond (1204-1461) derived


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It begins on a somewhat hopeful note in the late eleventh century, with the rise to power of Alexius I Comnenus a decade after the resounding defeat of Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes by the Seljuk Turks at Manzikert.
 
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