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  • In 1438 he accompanied the Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaeologus ... In 1438, Plethon accompanied Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaeologus ...
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  • war of 913–927. In the summer the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos ... During his short reign the Byzantine emperor Alexander (r. 912–913 ...
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  • monarchy, raised to the rank of Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III in 800 C ... to be himself dismissed by the new Byzantine Emperor, Basil the Macedonian ...
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  • Metochites (1270 – 1332) was a Byzantine statesman, author, gentleman ... commentary on Aristotle from the late Byzantine period, as well as original ...
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  • Theodora (c. 500 – June 28, 548) was empress of the Byzantine Empire and the wife of Emperor Justinian I. Along with her husband, she is a ...
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  • when the Empress Theodora, the wife of Emperor Justinian I exiled Pope ... He then became embroiled directly with the emperor himself in the ...
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  • being caught in the struggle between the Byzantine Empire and the "barbarian ... him as the victim of the intrigues of the Byzantine empress Theodora, who arranged ...
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  • been allowed to settle in Byzantium by its emperor Heraclius after their victory ... At first heavily dependent on the Byzantine Empire as its tributary ...
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  • appeared and gained acceptance in the Byzantine court. In 726 C.E., in ... in response to the edict by the Byzantine Emperor Leo III, banning the ...
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  • The murder of Emperor Michael III resulted in Photius' banishment ... #039; position weakened after the young Emperor Michael III and Bardas removed ...
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  • with Anna, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Basil II. He then ordered ... conversion. In this version, the Byzantine emperor Basil II faced a revolt ...
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  • dispute. Acacius and the eastern emperor Zeno soon created an accommodation ... quot; advance. Since the murder of Emperor Valentinian III (455), there ...
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  • first defeated him then crushed a large Byzantine army sent to restore order ... Stefan ruled until 1168 when the Byzantine Emperor countered, sending ...
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  • the Assyrian Church of the East from the Byzantine Church. ... to the Persian city Nisibis when the Byzantine emperor closed it for its Nestorian ...
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  • of Constantine in 325 C.E. The Roman Emperor Constantine the Great built ... at present, by the command of the Emperor Constantine, has been built ...
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  • enough militarily to offer support to the Byzantine Empire despite being subject ... attacked the Bulgarian Empire and defeated Emperor Simeon I, forcing him to ...
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  • the death of Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor, but also the strategic ... the Pope and other western rulers as Byzantine emperor in exile, until 1503 ...
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  • 004.jpg|thumb|left|Justinian I, Byzantine emperor and an important saint ... Pope Felix III. Acacius advised the Byzantine Emperor Zeno, in an effort ...
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  • He waged the Gothic War against the Byzantine Empire for the mastery ... his cousin Eraric in 541. The official Byzantine position, adopted by Procopius ...
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  • to the throne. The advance of the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos ... was married off to the future Byzantine Emperor Andronikos IV Palaiologos ...
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  • and in the classical, Hellenistic, and Byzantine periods it was known as ... Ankara as Turkish territory in 1073. Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos ...
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  • " plural templa) is a feature of Byzantine architecture that first ... possible source. At certain times during Byzantine history, theater heavily ...
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  • 431. In 435 an edict by his former patron, Emperor Theodosius II, exiled Nestorius ... walls of Antioch when he was chosen by the Emperor Theodosius II to succeed ...
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  • Byzantine historians distinguish two sorts of emperors: those who won power through a coup and those "born to the purple." Those in ...
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  • Evidence indicates that resulting from the suggestion of Emperor Heraclius ... to an end only after the last Monothelite Emperor, Philippicus Bardanes, was ...
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  • Theodore of Studium (759-826 C.E.), was a Byzantine monk and abbot of the Stoudios ... party during the first period of Byzantine iconcolasm. There is, however ...
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  • Egypt. The monastery was built by order of Emperor Justinian I between 527 ... The monastery was built by order of Emperor Justinian I between 527 ...
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  • city's most famous son was the emperor Septimius Severus. ... son, Lucius Septimius Severus, became emperor. He favored his hometown ...
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  • mostly Eastern church leaders convened by Emperor Justinian I from May 5 to ... Vigilius had long resisted the emperor's policy, but after ...
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  • was named Michael after his godfather, Emperor Michael III. ... and at Varna. There he is called with the Byzantine title "Archon of Bulgaria ...
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  • This appointed the Popes to be successors to the Roman Emperor in ... who would become the first Holy Roman Emperor in 800 C.E. under Pope Leo ...
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  • purchase peace: through the mediation of Emperor Charles IV, he removed his ... Queen Joan I of Naples and of the Byzantine emperor John V Palaeologus ...
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  • persecution of the Christian church by Emperor Diocletian in 303-305 C ... persecution of the Christian church under Emperor Diocletian. On February ...
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  • Constantinople to seek aid from the Byzantine emperor Tiberius II. This ally ... the confirmation of the election by the emperor, Tiberius II, in Constantinople ...
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  • According to Robin Cormack, almost every Byzantine church contained a representation ... century Doge Leonardo Montaldo by the Byzantine Emperor John V Palaeologus. ...
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  • developed in the Near East, spread to the Byzantine Empire, and from there ... Cloisonné first developed in the Near East, spread to the Byzantine ...
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  • Charlemagne (Karl der Grosse in German), the first Holy Roman Emperor ... by Odo of Metz. He based it on the Byzantine church of San Vitale (completed ...
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  • November 13, 565 C.E.) was Eastern Roman emperor from August 1, 527 until ... title=Byzantine Emperor | years=527–565 |regent1=Justin I |years1=527 ...
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  • a civil servant and an aide to the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (610-641 ... 0-8153-1663-1). Maximus was born into Byzantine nobility, as indicated ...
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  • eastern bishops in the capital of the Byzantine Empire from 680-81, dealing ... opposing Monothelitism during the reign of Emperor Constans II. ...
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  • Theodemir had concluded with the Byzantine Emperor Leo. ... arose with his Roman subjects and the Byzantine emperor Justin I over the Arianism ...
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  • Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople and Emperor Zeno sought to reconcile ... was condemned as a heretic. However, Emperor Theodosius II and Patriarch ...
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  • === Roman and Byzantine periods === [[Image:BethlehemInsideCN.jpg|right ... Helena, the mother of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, visited Bethlehem. ...
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  • The tension between depraved eunuchs in the service of the emperor ... * Narses (478-573) General of Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I, responsible ...
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  • of their friendly alliance. This the Emperor freely granted at the time ... minted golden coins in it. In 546 the Byzantine Empire allied themselves ...
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  • it was closed in 529 C.E. by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. ... In 529 C.E., the Byzantine emperor Justinian I closed the school in ...
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  • of the devastating wars between the Byzantine and Persian Empires of ... in the current situation. Thus, Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV provided ...
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  • ;"| Constantinople liberated by Byzantine emperor of Nicaea, Michael ... Mehmed II on May 29, 1453. The last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Paleologus ...
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  • was closed forever in 529 by the Christian emperor Justinian. ... Plato's Academy. In 529 the Christian emperor Justinian closed the Academy ...
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  • succession. He consolidated ties with the Byzantine Church, asking the Patriarch ... to his own father and raided the Byzantine Empire he preferred alliances ...
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  • Meanwhile, in 858, the Byzantine Emperor Michael III removed Patriarch ... At the Council of Florence in the fifteenth century, Byzantine Emperor ...
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  • |Antipope Laurentius || || 498–499 501–506 || Byzantine emperor ... || 997–998 || supported by Byzantine emperor Basil II || Pope Gregory V ...
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  • the Assyrian Church of the East from the Byzantine Church. ... Virgin Mary was the mother of God. In 435 Emperor Theodosius II issued an ...
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  • Eutyches (c. 380 – c. 456) was a Byzantine presbyter and archimandrite ... each other as heretics. The death of Emperor Theodosius II in 450 led ...
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  • France, and Spain and to the lands of the Byzantine Empire. Such activities ... His daughter, Eirene (the wife of the Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos) is ...
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  • of the Mongol world, as well as to the Emperor of Ethiopia. He traveled ... he was commissioned in 1272 by the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos ...
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  • with a large army intent on punishing the emperor. He laid siege to Heraclea ... reached his palace in Baghdad when the emperor again refused to pay. Hārūn ...
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  • was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and, following its ... the time) styled himself as the next Roman emperor ("Kayser-i-Rum" ...
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  • a schism with Rome. The death of Emperor Theodosius II led to the ... intervened on Eutyches' behalf, and Emperor Theodosius II then convened ...
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  • the attacks of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor. Stephen established ten ... Bulgaria, in alliance with the Byzantine Emperor Basil II, and collected ...
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  • of the Rashidun Caliphate against the Byzantine Empire in the year 636–637/38 ... Jerusalem was an important city of the Byzantine province of Palaestina ...
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  • His mother converted to Christianity at the court of Byzantine Emperor ... a Rus' detachment accompanied Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus Phocas in ...
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  • rose to the position of Holy Roman Emperor and Empress. She was known ... power. After his marriage, a 16 year old Byzantine princess, however, Adelaide ...
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  • other uprisings and conflict with the Byzantine Empire but the caliphate ... It is said that, victorious over the Byzantine Emperor, Al-Ma'mun made ...
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  • as a presiding prince of Kartli under the Byzantine protectorate and bestowed ... own civil wars and the conflict with the Byzantine Empire. Although the harsh ...
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  • of Rome, who reigned over the city as the Emperor's representative, swore ... After the death of the Holy Roman emperor Henry VI in 1197 C.E., two ...
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  • out in 488, by commission from the Byzantine emperor Zeno, to recover Italy ... of power eventually led the Byzantine emperor to fear that Theodoric ...
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  • until this area was reclaimed by the Byzantine Empire. It is now divided ... == Byzantine Cimmerian Bosporus == A few centuries after the Hunnic ...
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  • the Eastern Orthodox Church under the Byzantine Emperor. However, the Emperors ... a powerful motive to respond to Byzantine emperor Alexius I's call ...
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  • in the first or third year of the reign of Emperor Claudius, i.e. 41 or 43 ... Saint Mark during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, a great multitude ...
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  • during which he preached before the Emperor Theodosius the Great. The ... works (Facund. viii.6), now wrote to the emperor (Ep. 71), that Diodore and ...
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  • The Henotikon (or "act of union") was a document issued by the Byzantine emperor Zeno in 482 in an attempt to reconcile the supporters ...
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  • the Huns were bargaining with Byzantine emperor Theodosius II's ... to weaken, or the troops that the new Byzantine emperor Marcian sent across ...
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  • as Valerian or Valerian I, was the Roman Emperor from 253 to 260. Valerian ... He held a number of offices before he was named Emperor by the army ...
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  • by greater powers—Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, Islamic, Hohenstaufen ... Byzantine Emperor Constans II decided to move from the capital Constantinople ...
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  • to the Great Library). In the same year Emperor Theodosius I published an ... The Suda, a tenth-century Byzantine Greek encyclopedia of the ancient ...
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  • the Chalcedonians (Western Catholics and Byzantine Orthodox, and Protestants). ... other bishops and also the support of the Emperor. During the fourth council ...
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  • marriages, and a continued opposition to Emperor Henry IV (1056–1105). ... II received an ambassador from the Byzantine Emperor, Alexios I Komnenos ...
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  • compelling tale of the life of the Roman emperor Claudius, a tale extended ... ability to adopt the voice of a Roman emperor in a way that is both believable ...
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  • world's most significant examples of Byzantine art, Orthodox icons, and ... near Krya Nera. During the reign of emperor Basil I the "Macedonian ...
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  • was one of the last representatives of Byzantine learning, and a strong ... philosophy before entering the service of emperor John VIII Palaeologus (1425 ...
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  • according to the Vita Cyrilli, the Byzantine Emperor Michael III claimed ... The second mission (860) requested by the Byzantine Emperor Michael ...
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  • Following his conversion to Christianity, Emperor Constantine ordered that ... Thirteen years later, in 628, the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius defeated ...
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  • The Byzantine emperor Basil II ruled at Constantinople during this ... each day she grew stronger. The overjoyed emperor and empress were filled ...
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  • Constantinople, is referred to as the Byzantine Empire after AD 476, the ... In politics, the presence of a Roman Emperor was felt to be desirable ...
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  • the other ecclesiastical. The Emperor Constantine I built a basilica ... Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, originally Emperor Justinian I's great ...
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  • practice continued by the Austro-Hungarian Emperor and the King of Spain up ... ===Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic=== The Eastern Orthodox ...
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  • Empire, but in 1143 both the Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus and ... Christian sources claim that the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos secretly ...
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  • controlled by Carthaginians, Vandals, the Byzantine Empire, and by the eight ... 1541, the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sought to capture ...
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  • time after this mosaic was executed, the Emperor also began to be depicted ... Four Evangelists, and some other figures. Byzantine emperors and empresses ...
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  • was named for Augustus Caesar, first Roman emperor." ... Christians who were being targeted by the emperor. In one notable account ...
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  • influence at their doorstep, Roman Emperor Nero sent General Gnaeus ... and started a new war with the Roman emperor Trajan. Trajan marched towards ...
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  • ===Roman-Byzantine period=== The city passed formally to Roman jurisdiction ... King of Persia in 616. Although the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius recovered ...
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  • tribe to tribe until he was introduced to the Emperor, Justinian I. The Emperor provided assistance but is also rumored to have had al-Qays poisoned ...
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  • period of decline under the rule of the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman ... role as a center of pagan learning: The Emperor Justinian closed the schools ...
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  • eventually spread throughout the Byzantine Empire. In addition to ... stylites) were a common sight throughout the Byzantine Levant. ...
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  • 18, 53 – August 9, 117) was Roman Emperor who reigned from 98, until ... its greatest territorial extent. As an emperor, Trajan's legacy proved ...
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  • on suspicion of having conspired with the Byzantine Empire. His legacy includes ... that he had been in communication with Emperor Justin I of Constantine ...
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  • founded in 849, by the regent Bardas of emperor Michael III, is generally ... Byzantine university refers to higher education during the era of ...
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  • his martyrdom at the hands of the Roman emperor Maximinus. ... According to the Suidas, a massive tenth century Byzantine Greek historical ...
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  • of the 10th century through the aid of the Emperor Basil the Macedonian and ... , the most brilliant representative of Byzantine monasticism in the seventh ...
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  • with it, martyrdom occurred. By 313 C.E. Emperor Constantine ceased the prohibition ... it remained until it was conquered by the Byzantine general Belisarius in 535 ...
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  • Peter's Basilica, was given by the Byzantine despot Thomas Palaeologus ... to Constantinople by order of the Roman emperor Constantius II in 357. In ...
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  • It was not until 518 C.E. that the Byzantine Emperor, Justin I, on the ultimatum of the Roman patriarch, demanded that the Church of the Roman ...
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  • had been. The heat of argument drew the emperor in as judge. Eutychius& ... Gregory's relations with the emperor in the East were a cautious ...
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  • Later, under the Byzantine Emperor Zeno in the late fifth century, both Samaritans and Jews were massacred, and the Temple on Mt. Gerizim was ...
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  • Also during his reign, Al-Mutawakkil met the famous Byzantine theologian Constantine the Philosopher, who was sent to tighten the diplomacy diplomatic ...
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  • it later served as the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires until 1922. ... the factors in the decision of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great to ...
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  • the proclamation, Edict of Milan, in which Emperor Constantine I in 313 C.E ... the Gothic War (535–552) against Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. In the ...
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  • became politicized until, beginning with Emperor Augustus, it was subsumed ... With this attribution, the new office of Emperor was given a religious dignity ...
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  • probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius. His parents were ... George Syncellus, late in life, the Emperor Hadrian appointed him procurator ...
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  • started relatively early. Justinian I, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire ... On August 26, 1071, Romanus IV, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire ...
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  • by Greek ambassadors from the Byzantine emperor Theophilus. When questioned ... joint forces from the Arabs. The Byzantine emperor sent an angry letter ...
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  • E. –337 C.E.) to be the first "Byzantine Emperor." It was he who ... to recognize the authority of the Byzantine emperor and serve in its army ...
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  • Roman Empire (from 27 B.C.E., ruled by an Emperor). Military conquest, commercial ... in 476 C.E., Rome alternated between Byzantine and plundering by Germanic ...
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  • engineered the abdication of the last emperor in the West, Romulus Augustus ... in June 474, Julius Nepos became Western Emperor. The Master of Soldiers ...
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  • the imperial insignia well into the Byzantine era, and were even adopted ... and regal authority that he had put on as emperor. He died kissing his wife ...
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  • on the site during the reign of Roman Emperor Augustus. It flourished ... founded by Romans during the reign of the emperor Augustus and was an important ...
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  • at least thirty years. At the request of the Byzantine Emperor Michael III (c. 858), Johannes undertook the works of Pseudo-Dionysius and translated them ...
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  • a bishopric during the beginning of the Byzantine era. One of the churches ... to have been constructed under the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius who reigned ...
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  • in Christendom. This rivalry between Emperor or King and Pope was a key ... and locus of law and loyalty with an Emperor who claimed divinity and ...
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  • The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I fortified Kallipolis and established ... which was inhabited by populations of the Byzantine Empire, was gradually conquered ...
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  • Flavius Claudius Iulianus (331–June 26, 363), was a Roman Emperor ... 2000, "Fatal Wounding of the Byzantine Emperor Julian the Apostate ...
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  • attributed to the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine Emperor, Heraclius is said ... Syrian and Nestorian Christians for who m Byzantine rule was actually less ...
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  • century later, married a daughter of the Byzantine emperor, and gave his own daughter in marriage to a Rus' prince, Theodor the Black. Some modern ...
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  • the Urn Tomb (once used as a church in Byzantine times); the Corinthian ... Lions. Following this is an immense Byzantine Church rich with remarkably ...
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  • army of 40,000 decisively defeated a Byzantine force numbering 120,000 ... that no one be harmed. Heraclius, the Byzantine Emperor, had fled. He entered ...
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  • The Emperor Justinian closed the school in 529 C.E., a date that is often cited as the end of Antiquity. According to the sole witness, the historian ...
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  • is believed that during the time of the Byzantine Empire, the spot where ... army during the Islamic invasion of the Byzantine Empire. After signing a ...
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  • at Constantinople and presided over by the Emperor Andronicus; the synod, taking ... at a synod under the presidency of the Emperor John VI Cantacuzenus, Hesychast ...
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  • Egyptian, Greek, and Roman sources. The Byzantine chroniclers often complain ... back at Chalons; and he drove the western emperor Valentinian III from his ...
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  • in the ninth century and vassal to the Emperor of Ethiopia. ... Muhammad had taken refuge there, where the Emperor had welcomed them. A saying ...
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  • year, April 1 is Easter. The birth of an Emperor on Easter is a coincidence ... Romanorum (a title reserved for the Byzantine emperor), but rather Imperator ...
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  • Roman polytheism, centralized around the emperor. With the title Pontifex ... 380 C.E. by the decree De Fide Catolica of Emperor Theodosius I. ...
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  • Constance of Sicily, who was married to Emperor Henry VI. But immediately ... put in at Corfu, the territory of the Byzantine Emperor Isaac Angelus, who ...
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  • the threat of factionalism, the Roman Emperor sometimes found it necessary ... officials were required to notify the Byzantine Emperor upon the death of a ...
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  • by its sacred reputation. The future Emperor Vespasian went there during ... 1150 C.E. reportedly encountered a small Byzantine monastery there. Its priests ...
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  • Though significant in the history of religious doctrine, the Byzantine ... The Iconoclastic Period began when images were banned by Emperor Leo ...
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  • utilized executions by elephants. The Byzantine, Sassanid, Seljuq, and ... The Mughal Emperor Humayun ordered the crushing by elephant of an ...
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  • known to modern-day historians as the Byzantine Empire continued until ... historical forms continued until the Byzantine period, more than one thousand ...
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  • the first to bear the title Holy Roman Emperor before it passed to the ... at the usurpation, in 812, the Byzantine Emperor Michael I Rhangabes ...
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  • of the tenth century created in the Byzantine empire, according to many ... At roughly this time, the Byzantine empire was enjoying military success ...
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  • After several confrontations between Dacia and Rome, Emperor Trajan ... and initially defeated an army the Emperor Domitian sent against them ...
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  • part of the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I erected ... During this period, Muslims converted the Byzantine church at the site of Abraham ...
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  • the First Crusade began in 1095 when Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos ... 1071, the only time in history that a Byzantine emperor became the prisoner ...
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  • Letter was supposedly written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus ... for to give good smell and odour to the emperor, and to void away all wicked ...
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  • of the Orthodox Church. In 732, a Byzantine emperor, Leo III the Isaurian ... But the Byzantine emperor Basil II, nicknamed the “Bulgar-slayer ...
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  • Photius (ninth century) was the earliest Byzantine work that could be called ... The Chinese emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty oversaw the compilation ...
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  • was also inserted by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. The buildings are some ... development, freed from the direct Byzantine influences which can be ...
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  • holdings of African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine and Islamic art. ... (ca. 4500 B.C.E.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion ...
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  • to the heritages of classical Greece, the Byzantine Empire, and nearly four ... E. –337 C.E.) to be the first "Byzantine Emperor." It was he who ...
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  • in the western Balkans during the reign of Emperor Tiberius in 9 C.E., and ... Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (575–641) commissioned Slavic tribal ...
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  • others in 476 when there was no longer an emperor in Rome itself, and to end ... still disputed. However, at this time the Byzantine Empire and the Abbasid ...
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  • leadership and the hindering of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus, ... German army, including a dazed and sick Emperor Conrad, who brought news ...
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  • king of the Vandals, who defeated the Byzantine general Bonifacius and ... During the emperor Maurice's reign, Carthage was made into an ...
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  • as a Roman soldier in the Guard of Emperor Diocletian, he was martyred ... city of that time, and present himself to Emperor Diocletian to apply for ...
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  • at a council held at Gentilly in 767. Emperor Charlemagne called for a ... in 1014 in the coronation liturgy of Emperor Henry II by Pope Benedict ...
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  • In 1888 Klimt received the Golden order of Merit from Emperor Franz ... Egyptian, Minoan, Classical Greek, and Byzantine inspirations. Klimt was ...
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  • entities arose under the control of the Byzantine and the Bulgarian Empire. ... he invoked the sovereignty of the Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise. The ...
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  • themselves were abolished in 394 B.C.E. by Emperor Theodosius I for being reminiscent ... name. In the mid-fifth century C.E., a Byzantine church was built on top ...
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  • by the Byzantine Empire, asked the Byzantine emperor to send a bishop that ... by Christianity spreading from the Byzantine Empire. The cities Nitra ...
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  • of the Empire, especially in the East or Byzantine Empire, where Constantinople ... in the West for the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, emperors. While, in the ...
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  • under the Roman Empire as each succeeding emperor strove to open one or many ... as copies Western Christian monks made of Byzantine works. The resulting conglomerate ...
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  • After a period of Byzantine rule (fourth to ninth century) and a probable ... In 1530, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Spain gave the islands to ...
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  • (f.e. ṪḢ). Corrections represent Byzantine text-type, just like in ... Bible commissioned from Eusebius by Roman Emperor Constantine after his conversion ...
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  • Damascus later became a base for the Byzantine Empire but fell to ... same time, in the year 37 C.E., the Roman Emperor Caligula transferred Damascus ...
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  • Rescript of Honorius, in which the Western Emperor Honorius tells the British ... The work of Procopius, another sixth-century Byzantine writer, makes ...
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  • violence, slavery, and racism. Ever since Emperor Constantine I first instructed ... *Suppedaneum cross. Also known as Crux Orthodoxa, Byzantine cross ...
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  • jpg|thumb|Coin of the Roman emperor Augustus found at the Pudukottai ... Dynasty captured the areas under the Roman Byzantine Empire. ...
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  • the Bar Kokhba's revolt, the Roman emperor Hadrian resettled the city ... would be replaced by Abd al-Malik. The Byzantine chronicler Theophanes Confessor ...
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  • The Eastern successor of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, continued ... When Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned as Emperor of the French in 1804 ...
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  • the Greek atsinganoi), dates from the Byzantine era during a time of famine ... and wizards who visited the Emperor Constantine IX in the year ...
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  • The current structure was built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian ... Alexios Angelos, the son of a deposed Byzantine emperor. ...
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  • until later expelled by the generals of the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I. The Byzantine Empire then retained a precarious grip on the east of the ...
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  • the other great powers of the area, the Byzantine and Sassanid empires, which ... 'slave of Allah' and the Byzantine emperor, Heraclius (610–641 ...
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  • the Alans and Huns. By the sixth century, Emperor Justinian had reconquered ... geographical handbook written by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII in ...
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  • after its conquest of the remnants of the Byzantine Empire over the course ... took place in Morea to restore the Byzantine Empire. Throughout the ...
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  • the birth of civilizations including the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. Because ... In 324 C.E., the Roman emperor Constantine I chose Byzantium to be ...
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  • and Scythia Minor (Dobrudzha) from the Byzantine Empire, expanding Great ... and the tenth century, while fighting the Byzantine Empire for control of the ...
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  • is also vested the exempt Ordinariate for Byzantine-rite Catholics in Austria; ... hundreds of sacks of coffee beans. The Emperor gave Franz George Kolschitzky ...
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  • traditions. These are: the Armenian, Byzantine, Caldean (East Syrian) ... to worship the state and the Roman emperor. There were persecutions ...
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