Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Nikephoros Xiphias (, ) ya kasance kwamandan sojan Byzantine a lokacin mulkin Emperor Basil II. Ya taka rawar gani a cikin
Nasarar Byzantine na Bulgaria, kuma ya taimaka sosai wajen nasarar Byzantine a yakin Kleidion a 1014. A cikin 1022 ya jagoranci tawayen da bai yi nasara ba a kan Basil II, kuma ya zama abin kunya, aka yanke shi kuma aka kore shi. An ambaci shi na ƙarshe a cikin 1028, lokacin da aka dawo da shi daga gudun hijira kuma ya yi ritaya zuwa gidan sufi.