ka petikan di handap ieu lajeng ngajawab patarosan saterusna dina basa sarua jeung petikan: Passage: Cretan piracy ngahontal jangkung sejen di 930s jeung 940s, devastating kidul Yunani, Athos, jeung basisir kulon Asia Minor. Salaku hasilna, Kaisar Constantine VII (r. 913<unk>959) dikirim ekspedisi sejen di 949. Ieu teuing ieu routed dina serangan kejutan, a eleh nu chroniclers Bizantium atribut ka incompetence jeung inexperience pamingpin anak, nu eunuch chamberlain Constantine Gongyles. Constantine VII teu nyerah, sarta salila taun panungtungan pamaréntahanana manéhna mimiti nyiapkeun ekspedisi sejen. Ieu bakal dilumangsungkeun dina pamingpin panerusna, Romanos II (r. 959<unk>63), anu dipercayakeun kapamimpinan ka umum Nike Phokas. At the head of a huge army and Phokas, in June 960, Constantine sailed on the land of a Muslim prince or sailing ship, and defeated the Muslim captains on the island in 949. Ieu teuing ieu routed dina serangan kejutan, a eleh nu chroniclers Byzant
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