Phocas enters Constantinople
The Chronicon Paschale reports that Phocas entered Constantinople on Sunday, 25 November.
What this does and does not establish
Dindorf’s Greek narrative specifies entry from the Hebdomon through the Golden Gate. The parallel Latin belongs to the same edition and is not independent corroboration. The nearby coronation passage has conflicting weekday numerals in Greek and Latin; this record concerns the separately dated entry.
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- Region
- Europe
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- 25 November, indiction VI
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Examined paschale-690-729.txt, lines 126–168 and 171–209, Dindorf pp. 693–694. Greek heading: indiction V, Maurice year XX, postconsular year XVIII (line 127); corresponding Roman annual heading explicitly reads 602 (line 151). The narrative advances into November of September-based indiction VI (lines 134–145), hence November 602. Lines 183–185 and parallel Latin 206–208 explicitly begin Phocas’s first regnal year on 25 November, continuing until January. The entry date is separately specified as Sunday, 25 November.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Chronicon Paschale
Anonymous Constantinopolitan chronicler
Quoted text (Greek)
εἰσῆλθεν ἐν ΚωνσταντινουπόλειAI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
He entered Constantinople.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Chronicon Paschale, Dindorf (1832), pp. 690–729, First1KGreek TEI ed91552c52530c8f5a3ddf2dd767e899372a804c; project English working translation. First1KGreek contributors; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/First1KGreek/ed91552c52530c8f5a3ddf2dd767e899372a804c/data/tlg2371/tlg001/tlg2371.tlg001.1st1K-grc1.xml ; CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ (adapted translation).
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-05. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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