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Constantinople - Names: 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: 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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Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - Johannes Bessarion

Johannes Bessarion, or Basilius (c. 1395-1472), titular patriarch of Constantinople, and one of the illustrious Greek scholars who contributed to the great revival of letters in the 15th century, was born at Trebizond, the year of his birth being variously given as 1389, 1395 or 1403. He was educated at Constantinople, and in 1423 went to the Peloponnese to hear Gemistus Pletho expound the philosophy of Plato. On entering the order of St Basil, he adopted the name of an old Egyptian anchorite Bessarion, whose story he ha ...

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Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - 144

144 - Events. Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Polycarpus II to Patriarch Athendodorus Change of era name from Hanan (3rd year) to Jiankang era of the Chinese Han Dynasty Change of emperor from Han Shundi to Han Chongdi of the Chinese Han Dynasty Marcion of Sinope is excommunicated; a sect (Marcionism) grows out of his beliefs. Construction of the Antonine Wall is completed. 144 - Births. Including:

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Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - Athenagoras

Athenagoras has been the name of several notable Greek individuals: Athenagoras of Ephesus, a tyrant of Ephesus around the 6th century BC Athenagoras of Athens (circa 133-190), early Christian philosopher Patriarch Athenagoras (1886-1972), Patriarch of Constantinople from 1948 to 1972 Athenagoras is also the title of a 1682 biography of Athenagoras of Athens by British theologian John Fell. Other related archives133, 1886, 190, 1972,

Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - Maruthas

Maruthas was bishop of Tagrit or Maypherkat in Mesopotamia, friend of St. John Chrysostom, believed to have died before 420. He is honoured as a Saint by Catholics, Greek Orthodoxs and Copts, his feast being kept on the 4th of December. He brought into his episcopal city the relics of so many martyrs that it received the name Martyropolis. In the interests of the Church of Persia, which had suffered much in the persecution of Shapur II, he came to Constantinople, but found Emperor Arcadius too busily engaged in the affairs of St. John ...

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Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - Quinisext Council

This article incorporates text from the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia. This particular council of Constantinople, held in 692 under Justinian II, is generally known as the Council in Trullo, because it was held in the same domed hall where the Sixth General Council had met. Both the Fifth and the Sixth General Councils had omitted to draw up disciplinary canons, and as this council was intended to complete both in this respect, it also took the name of Quinisext (Latin:Concilium Quinisextum, Koine Greek:Euno ...

Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - Anastasius

Anastasius is part of the name of: Pope Anastasius: Pope Anastasius I -- Pope from 399-401 Pope Anastasius II -- Pope from 496-498 Pope Anastasius III -- Pope from 911-913 Pope Anastasius IV -- Pope from 1153 to 1154 Anastasius I of the Byzantine Empire (c. 430-518) -- Roman emperor Anastasius II of the Byzantine Empire (d. 721) -- Roman emperor in the East Anastasius -- Patriarch of Constantinople from 730-754 Anastasius Bibliothecarius (

Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - 496

496 - Events. Battle of Tolbiac; Clovis I defeats the Alamanni accepts Catholic baptism at Reims. Pope Anastasius II succeeds Gelasius I. The ruling Tuoba family in the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty change their family name to Yuan. Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I has Euphemius Patriarch of Constantinople deposed, and Macedonius II appointed as his successor. Euphemius is sent into exile. Kavadh I of Persia is deposed and exiled by his brother Djamasp. Thrasamund b ...

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Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - Hagia Sophia

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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Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - Constantine V

Constantine V Copronymus ("The Dung-named") (718-September 14, 775) was Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775. Constantine was the son and successor of Leo III the Isaurian. Constantine was opposed by his father's chamberlain Artabasdus, who attacked his army while they were on campaign against the Arabs in Anatolia. Artabasdus declared that Constantine had been killed in battle and seized power in Constantinople. Constantine, however, fled to Isauria, rallied his supporters, and besieged the capital in 742. By the end of 743 ...

Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - Baudolino

Baudolino is a 2000 novel by Umberto Eco about a young man named Baudolino's adventures in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century. In the year of 1204, Baudolino of Alessandria enters Constantinople, unaware of the Fourth Crusade that has thrown the city into chaos. In the confusion he meets Niketas Choniates and saves his life. Niketas is amazed with his language genius, speaking any language he has ever heard, and on the question: if he is not part of the crusade, who is he? Baudol ...

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Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - Codex Alexandrinus

The Codex Alexandrius (London, British Library, MS Royal 1. D. V-VIII) is a 5th century manuscript of the Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Septuagint and the New Testament. Along with the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus, it is one of the earliest and most complete manuscripts of the Bible. It derives its name from the Alexandria where it is believed to have been made. In 1627 the Patriarch of Constantinople, Cyril Lucar, who had previously been the Patriarch of Alex ...

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Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - Varangian

The Varangians (Russian: Variags, Варяги) were Scandinavians who travelled eastwards, mainly from Jutland and Sweden. Promoting trade, piracy and mercenary militarism, they roamed the river systems and portages of what later became Russia, reaching the Caspian Sea and Constantinople. Their name came from Old Norse Væringjar, which may have come from the Old Norse plural noun várar = "pledge, troth". The East Slavs and the Byzantines, however, did not distinguish Scandinavians from other Germa ...

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Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - Basil Zaharoff

Sir Basil Zaharoff, originally Zacharias Basileios, (1849, Muğla, Turkey - 1936, Monte Carlo, Monaco) was an Greek-Russian arms trader and financier, the director and chairman of the Vickers-Armstrong munitions firm during the World War I. It was said that he fuelled conflicts in order to sell weapons to both sides. Basil was from a Greek family in Constantinople. The name Zaharoff was adopted when the family was in exile in Russia as a result of the anti-Greek Easter pogroms of 1821. The family returned to Turkey in th ...

Constantinople - Names: Encyclopedia - Constantine Rhigas

Constantine Rhigas, known as Rhigas of Velestinos (Pherae), or Rhigas Pheraios (1760-1798) was a Greek revolutionary and poet born at Velestinos, and was educated at Zagora and at Constantinople, where he became secretary to Alexander Ypsilanti. In 1786 he entered the service of Nicholas Mavrogenes, hospodar of Wallachia, at Bucharest, and when war broke out between Turkey and Russia in 1787 he was charged with the inspection of the troops at Craiova. Here he entered into close and friendly relations with a Turkish officer named Osman Passvan-Oglou (1758-1807), afterwards the famous governor of Wid ...

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