Bouzes
Byzantine general
Bouzes or Buzes (Greek: Βούζης, fl. 528–556) was a Byzantine (Eastern Roman) general active in the reign of Justinian I (r. 527–565) in the wars against the Sassanid Persians.
Family
Bouzes was a native of Thrace. He was likely a son of the general and rebel Vitalian. Procopius identifies Coutzes and Venilus as brothers of Bouzes. An unnamed sister was mother to Domnentiolus.
Iberian War
Battle of Thannuris (or Mindouos)
Bouzes is first mentioned in 528, as joint dux of Phoenice Libanensis together with his brother, Coutzes. (Their province was part of the wider Diocese of the East and contained areas to the east of Mount Lebanon). Bouzes was stationed at Palmyra, while Coutzes at Damascus. Both brothers are described as being young at the time by Procopius.
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