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Talk:Michael III

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Later historians (Ostrogorski e.g.) have revised this picture considerably. Although M was no great statesman his ministers (Bardas e.g.) did a fine job and so M's reign helped to lay the foundation for Basil II's greatness.

The drunkard story was mainly an attempt to 'justify' the later usurpation

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The 16:15, 30 December 2010 Kukuri1964 version of the article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia to expand a stub.--Wing (talk) 15:42, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]