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The Sangarius Bridge is located in northwestern Anatolia, in the ancient region of Bithynia, ca. 5 km southwest of the town of Adapazarı. [3] Today, the bridge spans the small Çark Deresi stream (called Melas in Antiquity), which flows from the nearby Sapanca Lake; the modern course of the far wider Sakarya lies 3 km to the East.
The channel is the present course of the river. Justinian also constructed the bridge bearing his name over the new course. During the early Turkish (pre Ottoman ) times the caravans had to pay a certain customs duty to use the bridge. The word for customs duty was “baç” (sometimes spelled bac) and the bridge was renamed “baç bridge”. [2]
Justinian I [b] [c] (482 – 14 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, [d] was the Roman emperor from 527 to 565. His reign was marked by the ambitious but only partly realized renovatio imperii, or "restoration of the Empire". [5] This ambition was expressed by the partial recovery of the territories of the defunct Western Roman ...
A stone bridge, which was built in 558 by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I (reigned 527–565), stood on the place of the Ottoman bridge. A new masonry bridge was later built on the same place by Byzantine emperor Basil I (r. 867–886). The historic Byzantine bridge was demolished over the time following earthquakes and invasions.
Theodora (/ ˌ θ iː ə ˈ d ɔːr ə /; Greek: Θεοδώρα; c. 490/500 – 28 June 548) [1] was a Byzantine empress and wife of emperor Justinian I.She was from humble origins and became empress when her husband became emperor in 527.
A timber bridge is a structure composed wholly out of wood, while a stone pillar bridge features a wooden superstructure resting on stone pillars. Strictly speaking, many bridges of the second type should be rather called " concrete pillar bridges", as the Romans preferably used opus caementicium for constructing their bridge piers (stone was ...
In 545 Justinian issued another law underlining the episcopal rights and status of Justiniana Prima, which is also confirmed by letters that were exchanged between Justinian and Pope Gregory I at the end of the 6th century. The city planning combined classical and Christian elements: thermae, a levantine agorai, and streets with colonnades ...
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 ...