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MICHAEL VI

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 359 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MICHAEL
MICHAEL (1596-1645)
MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

MICHAEL VI ., " the warlike," was already an old See also:

man when chosen by the empress See also:

Theodora as her successor shortly before her See also:

DEATH

death in ro56 . He was unable to check the disaffection of the feudal See also:

ARISTOCRACY (Gr. apuvror, best; «paria, government)

aristocracy, who combined with an officer named See also:

ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

Isaac See also:

COMNENUS

Comnenus to depose him . After a successful See also:

BATTLE

battle in See also:

PHRYGIA

Phrygia, the rebels had no difficulty in dethroning See also:

Michael (1057), who spent the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his See also:

LIFE

life in a monastery .

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