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Anna Dalassene (Greek: Ἄννα Δαλασσηνή 1025–1102) was an important Byzantine noblewoman who played a significant role in the rise of the Komnenoi to power in the eleventh century. As Augusta a title bestowed upon her rather than his empress-consort by her son Alexios I Komnenos she guided the empire during his many absences for long military campaigns against Turkish and other incursions into the Byzantine empire.

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