Nikephoros I, Emperor · Byzantine emperor

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RulerEmperor · Byzantine emperor

Nikephoros Iنقفور

Constantinople

The emperor who refused Harun's tribute and received his famous one-line reply.

He wrote demanding back the tribute paid by the empress Irene. Al-Tabari reports Harun's reply: 'The answer is what you will see, not what you will hear.' Harun then took Heraclea in 806, and Nikephoros paid again.

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