Pharkousas, prominent Turk captured by Manuel I M XII
Φαρκουσᾶς (Pharkousas 17001)
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- An important man among the Turks, who placed the sultans goblet in his hands when he was eating; this post the Byzantines call pinkernes
- ἀνὴρ παρὰ Πέρσαις ἐπιφανής, ὃς δειπνοῦντι τῷ Σουλτὰν ἐνετίθει τὸ ἔκπωμα ταῖν χεροῖν· πιγκέρνην τοῦτον ῾Ρωμαῖοι καλοῦσιν. Kinnamos 56.9-11