Ramba uchiverenga ndima ino - Constantine Diogenes ndiye nhengo yekutanga inozivikanwa yemhuri yemhuri yaDiogenes yakatanga kubva kuKapadhokiya, iyo yakaita basa rinokosha muByzantium yezana remakore rechi11. Diogenes akatanga basa rake somutungamiriri weimwe ye"tagmata" yokumadokero munguva yokutonga kwaBasilius II (r. 976 <unk> 1025), mumishandirapamwe yokupedzisira
Kurwisa Bulgaria. Muna 1014, akapinda mukukunda kwakasarudzika kweByzantine paHondo yeKleidion (Chikunguru 29), uye akazotevera Theophylact Botaneiates semutungamiriri ("doux") weTesaronika aine chinzvimbo che "patrikios", zvichimuita wechipiri mukuru mukuru wehurumende muBalkans mushure maDavid Arianites. Pashure porufu rwaTsar Samuel weBulgaria muna October, Diogenes naNikephoros Xiphias vakatumirwa kunharaunda yeMoglena sevatungamiriri vehondo huru yamambo. Munguva yorwendo urwu, Diogenes akavaka nhare yeMylobos, sezvinopupurirwa nechisimbiso chomuvambi.