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Alexios I Komnenos (1048 or 1056/1057 – 15 August 1118) was the Byzantine Emperor from 1081 to 1118. As the nephew of Emperor Isaac I Komnenos, Alexios was able to seize the throne of Byzantium, and from then on the Komnenos dynasty occupied the imperial throne for over a hundred years. Having gained power over a weakened state, whose borders were subject to attacks by the Normans and Seljuks, Alexios was able to eliminate the external threat. Under his reign, large-scale reforms were carried out, thanks to which the Komnenos Renaissance of the Byzantine Empire began, marked by the growth of its military and economic power. At the same time, during the reign of Alexei I, negative trends also emerged: the role of the Italian trading republics in the economic life of the empire increased, feudal relations began to develop, and the decline of small military holdings was not stopped by anyone... The medievalist historian Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya tells us.