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537 - Events. Pope Silverius deposed by Belisarius at the order of Justinian, who appoints as his successor Pope Vigilius. Battle of Camlann between Arthur and Mordred. (traditional date) December 27 - Construction of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is completed. 537 - Births. Evagrius Scholasticus, Christian historian (approximate date) 537 - Deaths. November 11 - Pope Silverius K ...

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The name of Constantinople is an honorific eponym referencing its founder, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Constantine established the Greek city of Byzantium as the second capital of the Roman Empire on May 11, AD 330, naming the city Nova Roma (New Rome). That particular name, however, enjoyed little common use, and it was as the 'City of Constantine' (Constantinopolis) that it ...

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A dome is a common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Domes do not have to be perfectly spherical in cross-section, however; a dome may be a section through an ellipse. If the baseline is taken parallel to the shorter of an ellipse's two diameters, a tall dome results, giving a sense of upward reach. A section across the longer axis results in a low dome, capping the volume instead. A very low dome is a saucer dome (see below). All the surfaces of any dome are curved. A s ...

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Constantinople1 (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολις) was the earlier name of the modern city of İstanbul in Turkey in its role over more than a millennium as capital, first of the Eastern Roman Empire, subsequently of the Byzantine Empire. The last imperial designation reveals the city's even more ancient Greek name: Byzantium. Constantinople was located strategically between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe met Asia, and was highly ...

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia. Reigned 537-555, date of birth unknown; died at Syracuse, 7 June 555. He belonged to a distinguished Roman family; his father Johannes is called consul in the Liber pontificalis (ed. Duchesne, I, 298), having received that title from the emperor. Reparatus, a brother of Vigilius, was a senator (Procopius, De bello gothico, I, 26). Vigilius entered the service of the Roman Church and was a deacon in 531, in which year the Roman cler ...

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King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. He is the central character in the cycle of legends known as the Matter of Britain. There is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually existed. In the earliest mentions and in Welsh texts, he is never given the title "King." Early texts refer to him as a dux bellorum ("war leader"), and High Medieval Welsh texts often call him an ameraudur ("emperor"; the ...

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Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century Decades: 480s - 490s - 500s - 510s - 520s - 530s - 540s - 550s - 560s - 570s - 580s Years: 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 Events and Trends Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, built (532-537) General Belisarius fights many campaigns defeating, among others, the Vandals in North Africa, bringing their kingdom to an end. During the Climate changes of 535-536 the sun reportedly becomes very dim and the weather is extraordinarily cold. This may have been ...

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March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). There are 277 days remaining. March 29 - Events. 537 - Vigilius is consecrated and enthroned as Pope, replacing Silverius. 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England. 1638 - Swedish colonists establish the first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden. 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden ...

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The Church of the Holy Wisdom, commonly known as Hagia Sophia in English, is a former Greek Orthodox church converted to a mosque, now a museum, in Istanbul (Constantinople). It is universally acknowledged as one of the great buildings of the world. The name comes from the Greek name Αγία Σοφία. It is also known as Sancta Sophia in Latin and Ayasofya in Turkish. Hagia Sophia - Construction. Nothing remains of the first church that was built on the same site during ...

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536 - Environmental change. As in 535, weather is reported to be unusually cold and dark; see Climate changes of 535-536. 536 - Births. Agathias, Greek poet and historian Evagrius Scholasticus, church historian (or 537) 536 - Deaths. April 22 - Pope Agapetus I Theodahad, king of the Ostrogoths (assassinated) Mundus, Byzantine general (killed in battle in Dalmatia)

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King Arthur - Literature. John Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a traditional take in modern language. T.H. White's The Once and Future King cycle Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur is a work based on Thomas Malory's, written in such a way to appeal to the boys of the 19th century. Marion Zimmer Brad ...

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Nothing remains of the first church that was built on the same site during the 4th century. Following the destruction of the first church, a second was built by Constantius, the son of Constantine the Great, but was burned down during the Nika riots of 532. The building was rebuilt under the personal supervision of emperor Justinian I and rededicated on December 27, 537. Justinian chose Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles, a physicist and a mathematician, as architects; Anthemius, however, died within the first year. The const ...

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A dome can be considered as an arch which has been rotated around its vertical axis. As such, domes have a great deal of structural strength. A small dome can be constructed of ordinary masonry, held together by friction and compressive forces. Larger domes built after Brunelleschi's dome that triumphantly spanned the crossing of Santa Maria del Fiore, the duomo of Florence, have all been built as do ...

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She started out with the historical fantasy trilogy, "Down the Long Wind", featuring a very Celtic Britain, in contrast to other modern stories of King Arthur. The main character was Gawain who had to choose between supporting his mother Morgause or his maternal uncle Arthur. This trilogy consisted of "Hawk of May" (1980). "Kingdom of Summer" (1981). "In Winter's Shadow" (1982). The title of the trilogy was a reference to a verse from the "Id ...

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The ordinary year in the previous Roman calendar consisted of 12 months, for a total of 355 days. In addition, an intercalary month, the Mensis Intercalaris, was sometimes inserted between February and March. This intercalary month was formed by inserting 22 days before the last five days of February, creating a 27-day month. It began after a truncated February having 23 or 24 days, so that it had the effect of adding 22 or 23 days to t ...

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King of the Britons - House of Troy. Brutus I (Brute) 1149–1125 BC Locrinus (Locrine) 1125–1105 BC Queen Gwendolen 1105–1090 BC jointly with... Maddan (Madan) 1105–1065 BC Mempricius 1065–1045 BC Ebraucus (Ebranck) 1045–1005 BC Brutus II Greenshield 1005–993 BC Leil 993–968 BC Rud Hud Hudibras (Lud) 968–929 BC Bladud (Blaedud) 929–909 BC Leir (Lear) 909–855 BC (died 849 BC) King of the Britons - House of Albany. See also:

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The dominant method that the Romans used to identify a year for dating purposes was to name it after the two consuls who took office in it. Since 153 BC, they had taken office on 1 January, and Julius Caesar did not change the beginning of the year. Thus this consular year was an eponymous or named year. Roman years were named this way until the last consul was appointed in 541. Only rarely did the Romans number the year from the founding of the city (of Rome), ab urbe condita (AUC). This method was used by Roman historians to determi ...

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Mordred appears very early in Arthurian literature. The first mention of him, as Medraut, occurs in the Annales Cambriae entry for the year 537: The strife of Camlann, in which Arthur and Medraut fell. The Annales themselves were completed around A.D. 970. Mordred was associated with Camlann even at that early date, but the Annales' brief line gives no information as to whether he killed or was killed by Arthur, or even if he was fighting against him. Even if he wasn't yet the famous villain he would later become, his appearances in Welsh Genealogies ...

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