Phocas
See also: Phocas (homonymy)
Flavius Phocas Auguste (??? - 610, reigned from 602 to 610) was Byzantine emperor .
Phocas enters the history in 600, whereas it is only one simple Centurion. The Avars had done many prisoners and them khan (their king) required a modest ransom for each prisoner. The Maurice emperor refused and the prisoners were killed.
A delegation was sent to Constantinople but did not obtain anything more. Phocas, which formed part of it, was slapped and humiliated. The emperor Maurice interdict in 602 with the soldiers to turn over in their families while the Hiver approached. The soldiers revolt, at this point in time Phocas takes the head of the rebellion. During this time, the emperor is obliged to flee of Constantinople where dissatisfaction throws the population in the street, and when Phocas turns over in the capital, it is made crown empereur.
The Maurice emperor and his family are caught up with and all carried out except for his daughters and of the empress. The following year, in 603, Persians launch a great offensive which brings them until Chalcédoine in 608, opposite Constantinople on other side of the the Bosphorus. Their fulgurating progression was supported by the violent policy of repression of Phocas with respect to the heretics and the infidels, in particular in Egypt where he persecutes the monophysites but also the Juif S. the victims of the tyranny of Phocas then regard Persians as their liberators.
Its unpopularity is so large that in 610, when introduces a new applicant to the throne, in fact Héraclius, this one obtains the necessary support to reverse the emperor, without revolt.
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