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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 448 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHOCAS  ,

East
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Roman emperor (602-610), was a Cappadocian of humble origin . He was still but a centurion when chosen by the army of the Danube to lead it against Constantinople . A revolt within the city soon afterwards resulted in the abdication of the reigning emperor Maurice, and in the
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elevation of Phocas to the
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throne, which seems to have been accomplished by one of the circus factions against the wish of the troops . Phocas proved entirely incapable of governing the
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empire . He consented to pay an increased tribute to the
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Avars and allowed the Persians, who had declared war in 604 under
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Chosroes II., to overrun the
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Asiatic provinces and to penetrate to the Bosporus . When the
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African governor Heraclius declared against him, Phocas was deserted by the starving populace of Constantinople, and deposed with scarcely a struggle (61o) . He died in the same
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year on the scaffold . See J . B . Bury, The Later Roman Empire (
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London, 1889), ii . 197-206 .

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