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 * ...that Artabanes was an Armenian noble who served both the Sassanid Persians and the Byzantine Empire, and became involved in a plot against Emperor Justinian I?
 * ... that the last name of Empress Zoe Karbonopsina meant literally "the one with the Coal-Black Eyes"?
 * ... that Emperor Basil II was named the Bulgar-slayer by later historians for his blinding of 14,000 Bulgarian prisoners after the Battle of Kleidion?