Campaigns of Nikephoros Foka

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Was a military campaign of Byzantine general Nikephoros Foka against both the Arab and the Lombards in southern Italy.

Chronology

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January 886: His successor, Niceforo Foca, conquered not only the last cities of Calabria remained in Arab hands but also managed to subdue the Lombard territories that separated Byzantine Calabria and Puglia. He was very clement to the conquered Lombards, exempting them from paying taxes and not using violence against them, and the local population remembered him for his good governance (885-886) by building a church in his honor. Leo VI in his tactics manual praises him as an example of how a general should behave in case he has to reorganize a recently conquered territory.