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Byzantine flags and insignia. For most of its history, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire did not use heraldry in the Western European sense of permanent motifs transmitted through hereditary right. [1] Various large aristocratic families employed certain symbols to identify themselves; [1] the use of the cross, and of icons of Christ, the ...
Byzantine Empire in the year 1350. The Byzantine Empire entered into a new era of decay in 1341. The Empire was ravaged by multiple serious disasters [18] — alongside wars and civil wars, renewed epidemics of bubonic plague swept through its diminished lands. The first outbreak occurred in 1347, and between the 1360s and 1420s, eight further ...
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The Byzantine Empire underwent a golden age under the Justinian dynasty, beginning in 518 AD with the accession of Justin I. Under the Justinian dynasty, particularly the reign of Justinian I, the empire reached its greatest territorial extent since the fall of its Western counterpart, reincorporating North Africa, southern Illyria, southern ...
The Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty underwent a revival during the late 9th, 10th, and early 11th centuries. Under the Macedonian emperors, the empire gained control over the Adriatic Sea, Southern Italy, and all of the territory of the Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria. The Macedonian dynasty was characterised by a cultural revival in ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 21:28, 15 April 2015: 1,963 × 1,104 (960 KB) Cplakidas: rv to original colour scheme; the purple makes it harder to read and is frankly garish: 06:11, 3 May 2013: 1,963 × 1,104 (632 KB) Mareklug: corrected wrong color in legend for the empire itself: 18:30, 25 November 2012: 1,963 × 1,104 ...
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