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Nicephoras Phocas recaptures Crete, as well as much of Sicily, from Muslim occupiers. He challenges the young emperors, marries their mother, and effectively rules Byzantium until he is assassinated in 969 in a plot orchestrated by his wife and John I Tzimisces, who had been a trusted lieutenant.
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