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The New International Encyclopædia/Alexis II. Comnenus

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4780047The New International Encyclopædia, Volume I — Alexis II. Comnenus

ALEXIS, or ALEXIUS, II., COMNENUS (c.1168–83). Emperor of Constantinople. He succeeded his father, Manuel I., about 1180, and was deposed and strangled by his uncle, Andronicus (1183).