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780: Encyclopedia - 780

Events Constantine VI becomes Byzantine Emperor with Irene as guardian. Tang De Zong becomes emperor of China. Drest III succeeds Alpin II as king of the Picts. The city of Osnabrück is founded by Charlemagne (approximate date) Births al-Khwarizmi, Muslim mathematician (approximate date) Deaths Sept ...

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780: Encyclopedia II - Constantinople - Names

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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Charlemagne - Background

Charlemagne - Date and place of birth

Charlemagne - Life

Charlemagne - Early life

Charlemagne - Joint rule

Charlemagne - Conquest of Lombardy

Charlemagne - Saxon campaigns

Charlemagne - Spanish campaign

Charlemagne - Imperator

Charlemagne - Administration

Charlemagne - Death

Charlemagne - Cultural significance

Charlemagne - Charlemagne's personal appearance

Charlemagne - Family

Charlemagne - Marriages and Heirs

Charlemagne - Concubinages and Bastards

Charlemagne - Sources

780: Encyclopedia - Constantine VI

Constantine VI (771- 797 or 805) succeeded his father Leo IV as Byzantine emperor at the age of nine in 780, and was emperor under the regency of his iconophile mother Irene. In 787, Irene made an alliance with Charlemagne and planned to have Constantine marry his daughter Rotrud, but this plan did not work out. She later had Constantine marry the daughter of a minor noble. Constantine was 16 years old in 787, and general opinion was that Irene should have relinquished control of the empire to him. After a conspiracy against Ir ...

780: Encyclopedia - List of kings of Babylon

The following is a list of the Kings of Babylon, a major city of ancient Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq. List of kings of Babylon - First Dynasty of Babylon. This uses the traditional Middle Chronology, although there is now reason to believe it may be too early by as much as a century. Sumu-abum 1894-1881 BC Sumu-la-El 1880-1845 BC Sabium 1844-1831 BC Apil-Sîn 1830-1813 BC Sin-muballit 1812-1793 BC Hammurabi 1792-1750 BC Samsu-I ...

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List of kings of Babylon - First Dynasty of Babylon

List of kings of Babylon - Early Kassite Monarchs

List of kings of Babylon - Sealand Dynasty Dynasty II of Babylon

List of kings of Babylon - Kassite Dynasty Third Dynasty of Babylon

List of kings of Babylon - Dynasty IV of Babylon from Isin

List of kings of Babylon - Dynasty V of Babylon

List of kings of Babylon - Dynasty VI of Babylon

List of kings of Babylon - Dynasty VII of Babylon

List of kings of Babylon - Dynasty VIII of Babylon

List of kings of Babylon - Dynasty IX of Babylon

List of kings of Babylon - Dynasty X of Babylon Assyrians and Chaldeans

List of kings of Babylon - Dynasty XI of Babylon Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean

780: Encyclopedia - Ahmad ibn Hanbal

Islam History of Islam Oneness of God Profession of Faith Prayer • Fasting Pilgrimage • Charity Muhammad Ali • Abu Bakr Companions of Muhammad Household of Muhammad Prophets of Islam Qur'an • Hadith • Sharia Jurisprudence • Theology Biographies of Muhammad Sunni • Shi'a • Sufi Art • Architecture Cities • Calendar Science • Philosophy Religious leaders Women in Islam
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Ahmad ibn Hanbal - Works

780: Encyclopedia - Alcuin

Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus or Ealhwine (c. 735-May 19, 804) was a monk from York, England. He was related to Willibrord, Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Frisians and the first bishop of Utrecht, whose biography he afterwards wrote. Alcuin of York had a long career as a teacher and scholar first at the school at York (now known as St Peters School, York, founded AD 627) and lastly as Charlemagne's leading advisor on ecclesiastical and educational affairs. From 796 until his death he was abbot o ...

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780: Encyclopedia - Zongmi

Zongmi (宗密) (780 - 841), also commonly referred to by the monastic title of Guifeng (圭峰), was a Tang dynasty Buddhist scholar-monk, installed as fifth patriarch of the Huayan school as well as a patriarch of the Heze Chan lineage. He wrote a number of vitally important essays on the current situation of Buddhism in Tang China, and is one of the most important figures in East Asian Buddhist history in terms of providing modern scholars with a clear analysis of the development of Chan (Zen) and Huayan and the gener ...

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Zongmi - External link

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780: Encyclopedia - Manichaeism

Manichaeism was one of the major ancient religions. Though its organized form is mostly extinct today, a revival has been attempted under the name of Neo-Manichaeism. However, most of the writings of the founding prophet Mani have been lost. Some scholars and anti-Catholic polemicists argue that its influence subtly continues in Western Christian thought via Saint Augustine of Hippo, who converted to Christianity from Manichaeism and whose writing continues to be enormously influential among Catholic and Protestant theologians. ...

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Manichaeism - Origins

Manichaeism - Theology

Manichaeism - Expansion

Manichaeism - Manichaeism and orthodox Christianity

Manichaeism - Criticisms

780: Encyclopedia - Bishop of Sion

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion (German Bistum Sitten, Latin Dioecesis Sedunensis, French Évêché de Sion), in the Swiss canton of Valais, is the oldest bishopric in Switzerland and one of the oldest north of the Alps. The cathedral at Sion, "Notre-Dame du Glarier" was fortified by walls and crowns one of the two hills on which the city is built. The history of the Bishops of Sion, of the Abbey of Saint-Maurice ...

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Bishop of Sion - History

Bishop of Sion - Early history

Bishop of Sion - The prince-bishops

Bishop of Sion - The Reformation

Bishop of Sion - The impact of the French Revolution

Bishop of Sion - The diocese in the nineteenth century

Bishop of Sion - Recent history

Bishop of Sion - The library of the cathedral chapter

780: Encyclopedia - Constantinople

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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Constantinople - Names

Constantinople - Byzantium

Constantinople - Constantine's Foundation

Constantinople - Public buildings

Constantinople - Constantinople in the Divided Empire

Constantinople - The City under Justinian

Constantinople - The City after Justinian

Constantinople - Importance of the City in its prime

Constantinople - The Isaurians

Constantinople - The Comneni and Palaeologi

Constantinople - The Ottomans

Constantinople - Constantinople in popular culture

Constantinople - Notes

780: Encyclopedia - Archbishopric of Mainz

Between 780–82 and 1802 the Archbishop of Mainz was an influential ecclesiastic and secular prince in the Holy Roman Empire. His see was established in ancient Roman times, in the city of Mainz, which had been a Roman provincial capital called Moguntiacum, but the office really came to prominence upon its elevation to an archdiocese in 780/82. The first bishops before the 4th century have legendary names, beginning with Crescens. The first verifiable Bishop of Mainz was Mar(t)inus in 343. The ecclesiastical and secular importance of ...

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Archbishopric of Mainz - Bishops of Moguntiacum 80-745

Archbishopric of Mainz - Archbishops of Mainz 745-1251

Archbishopric of Mainz - Archbishops-Electors of Mainz 1251-1803

780: Encyclopedia - List of Byzantine Emperors

This is a list of the Emperors of the late Roman Empire, called Byzantine. The title of all Emperors listed preceding Heraclius was officially Augustus, although various other titles such as Dominus were used as well. For official purposes, their names were preceded by Imperator Caesar Flavius and followed by Augustus. Following Heraclius, the title became the Greek Basileus (Gr. Βασιλευς), which had formerly meant "king" but now was used in place of Augustus. Other (and to Roman minds, lesser) kings were titled by the neologi ...