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The emblem mostly associated with the Byzantine Empire is the double-headed eagle. It is not of Byzantine invention, but a traditional Anatolian motif dating to Hittite times, and the Byzantines themselves only used it in the last centuries of the Empire. [11] [12] The date of its adoption by the Byzantines has been hotly debated by scholars. [9]
The Byzantine Empire's history is generally periodised from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. From the 3rd to 6th centuries, the Greek East and Latin West of the Roman Empire gradually diverged, marked by Diocletian's (r. 284–305) formal partition of its administration in 285, [1] the establishment of an eastern capital in Constantinople by Constantine I in 330, [n ...
The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule. While Jerusalem had been under Muslim rule for hundreds of years, by the 11th century the Seljuk takeover ...
Osman I or Osman Ghazi ( Ottoman Turkish: عثمان غازى, romanized : ʿO s mān Ġāzī; Turkish: I. Osman or Osman Gazi; died 1323/4) [ 1][ 3][ a] was the founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as the Ottoman Beylik or Emirate). While initially a small Turkoman [ 5] principality during Osman's lifetime, his beylik transformed into a ...
Justinian was born in Tauresium, Dardania, [ 10][ 11] probably in 482. [ 12] A native speaker of Latin (possibly the last Roman emperor to be one), [ 13] he came from a peasant family thought to have been of either of Illyro-Roman [ 14][ 15][ 16] or Thraco-Roman [ 17][ 18][ 19] origin. The name Iustinianus, which he took later, is indicative of ...
It features 8 GB of storage and has similar dimensions to its predecessor but has a larger 6.8-inch display set in thinner bezels, 17 LEDs in the front light that can adjust color temperature to warmer tones (first featured in Kindle Oasis 3), an updated processor, and longer battery life that Amazon claims lasts up to ten weeks on a single ...
The Byzantine Empire Portal. Animated map showing the territorial evolution of the Byzantine Empire (in yellow). The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The eastern half of the Empire survived the conditions ...
1:18 →. Beginning of Gospel of John (and the end of Gospel of Luke) in Codex Vaticanus (4th century) Book. Gospel of John. Christian Bible part. New Testament. John 1:17 is the seventeenth verse in the first chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible .