Niketas Chalkoutzes

East Roman (Byzantine) general

910 CE to 975 CE

The patrikios Niketas Chalkoutzes ( fl.

950–965) is a Byzantine general, the first attested member of the Chalkoutzes family, and most notable for his recovery of Cyprus from the Arabs in 965.

He is probably the island's first Byzantine governor.

He also serves as an ambassador to the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla, ca.

950.

According to John Skylitzes, Sayf had taken Chalkoutzes along with him in a raid into Byzantine territory, but Chalkoutzes had bribed his guards and managed to escape with his servants during an ambush upon Sayf's forces by Leo Phokas the Younger.

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