Michael Toxaras (Greek: Μιχαήλ Τοξαρᾶς) was a Byzantine diplomat.
Toxaras is mentioned for the first time as a member of an embassy sent to the Abbasid court in Baghdad in June 917,[1] and recorded in the Kitab al-'Uyun.[2] The embassy was led by John Rhadenos, accompanied by Toxaras, who was already over 70 years old at the time, and twenty attendants.[1] The embassy arrived in Baghdad on 25 June and was received by the Caliph al-Muqtadir at the Taj Palace on 17 July, and a truce and prisoner exchange were agreed. Along with the eunuch general Mu'nis al-Muzaffar, the two ambassadors went to the Lamos River, the customary site of prisoner exchanges, where the exchange took place in September/October.[1]
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