<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_V_Kalaphates" id="mwNA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Michael V Kalaphates">Michael V</a>, adoptive son of Empress <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoë_Porphyrogenita" id="mwNQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Zoë Porphyrogenita">Zoë of Byzantium</a>, is proclaimed emperor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" id="mwNg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byzantine Empire">Eastern Roman Empire</a>.<sup about="#mwt35" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_11#cite_note-5" id="mwNw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwOA">[5]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt32" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFSkylitzes2010">Skylitzes, John (2010). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vGE8Xq832A0C" id="mwBws" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBww">John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057</i></a>. Translated by Wortley, John. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p.<span id="mwBw0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>391, fn. 4. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBw4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBw8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781107404748" id="mwBxA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781107404748"><bdi id="mwBxE">9781107404748</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt32" class="Z3988" id="mwBxI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=John+Skylitzes%3A+A+Synopsis+of+Byzantine+History%2C+811-1057&amp;rft.place=Cambridge%2C+UK&amp;rft.pages=391%2C+fn.+4&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2010&amp;rft.isbn=9781107404748&amp;rft.aulast=Skylitzes&amp;rft.aufirst=John&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvGE8Xq832A0C&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+11"></span></span>