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- Byzantine emperor from 976. His achievement
- as emperor was to contain, and later
- decisively defeat, the Bulgarians, earning
- for himself the title `Bulgar-Slayer'
- after a victory in 1014. After the battle he
- blinded almost all 15,000 of the defeated,
- leaving only a few men with one eye to lead
- their fellows home. The Byzantine empire had
- reached its largest extent at the time of his
- death.
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