Byzantine

The word Byzantine refers to: A citizen of the Byzantine Empire, or a native Greek during the middle ages. (See also: Names of the Greeks) The Byzantine Empire. List of Byzantine emperors, of the late Roman Empire, called Byzantine. The ancient city of Byzantium The Greek language during the Middle Ages A manner of speech and bearing - see Derogatory use of 'Byzantine' Byzantine art Byzantine architecture Byzantine faul

Byzantine: Encyclopedia II - Byzantine Literature - The Byzantine mosaic The Roman supremacy in governmental life did not disappear, amplified as it was by its union with the Eastern despotic traditions of rulership. The subjection of the Church to the power of the State led to a governmental ecclesiasticism, causing friction with Roman Catholic Church, which had remained relatively independent. Greek eventually overtook Latin as the official language of the government, the "Novellae" of Justinian I being the last Latin monument. As early as the seventh century Greek language had made great progress, and b ...

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Byzantine: Encyclopedia - Byzantine Empire

Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων Roman (Byzantine) Empire Motto: Βασιλεὺς Βασιλέων Βασιλεύων Βασιλευόντων (Greek: King of Kings Ruling Over Rulers) The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. In certain s ...

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Byzantine: 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 ...

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List of Byzantine Emperors - Constantinian dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic

List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic

List of Byzantine Emperors - Heraclian dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic

List of Byzantine Emperors - Heraclian dynasty

List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic

List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic

List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic

List of Byzantine Emperors - Ottomans

List of Byzantine Emperors - Palaeologid Dynasty in exile

Byzantine: Encyclopedia - Byzantine architecture

Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine empire. The empire emerged gradually after AD 330, when Constantine moved the capital of the Roman empire to Byzantium, which was later renamed Constantinople and is now Istanbul. Byzantine architecture - General considerations. Early Byzantine architecture is essentially a continuation of Roman architecture. Prime examples survive mostly in Ravenna and Constantinople and include the churches of St Irene, St Sophia, and Sts Sergius and Bakchus, the ...

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Byzantine: Encyclopedia - Byzantine aristocracy and bureaucracy

The Byzantine Empire had a complex system of aristocracy and bureaucracy. Most of the offices and titles were honorifics only, as the emperor was the sole ruler. Over the more than 1000 years of the empire's existence, different titles were adopted and discarded, and many lost or gained prestige. At first the various titles of the empire were the same as those in the late Roman Empire, as the Byzantine Empire was not yet distinguished from Rome. By the time of Heraclius in the 7th century many of the titles had become obsolete; by the time o ...

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Byzantine aristocracy and bureaucracy - Aristocratic titles

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Byzantine: Encyclopedia - Byzantine text-type

The Byzantine text-type (also called Constantinopolitan, Syrian, ecclesiastical, and majority) is the largest group of Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. The Byzantine text-type is the text-type with by far the largest number of manuscripts, especially from the invention of the minuscule (lower case) handwriting in the 9th century. For example, of 522 complete or nearly complete manuscripts of the Catholic Epistles collated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research in Münster, Germany, 372 of them attes ...

Byzantine: Encyclopedia - Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh

The Byzantine Catholic Metropolia of Pittsburgh is a Byzantine Rite autonomous jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church, originally serving members of the Ruthenian Catholic Church and their decendants in the United States. The Metropolia itself is composed of the Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (60,200 faithful, 84 parishes, 83 priests) and the Eparchies of Parma (12,401 faithful, 37 parishes, 38 priests), Passaic (24,031 faithful, 89 parishes, 84 priests) and Van Nuys (2,849 faithful, 19 parishes, 25 priests). Although the Ruthenians rem ...

Byzantine: Encyclopedia II - Byzantine navy - Reference

"History of the Byzantine State" by G. Ostrogorski This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, a publication in the public domain. ...

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