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[3]: 169 In Byzantine culture, eggs were considered food for people who were sick or fasting. [3]: 168 Cheese, another popular food, was derived from cows, sheep, goats, or water buffalo. [3]: 169 It came in various kinds, both hard and soft. [3]: 169 Paphlagonian cheese was a popular variety eaten in Constantinople.
The characteristic multi-domed profile of the Byzantine Hagia Sophia, the first pendentive dome in history, has shaped Orthodox and Islamic architecture alike. [1] This is a list of Byzantine inventions. The Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire represented the continuation of the Roman Empire after a part of it collapsed.
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Anthimus (Greek: Ἄνθιμος; fl. 511–534) was a Byzantine Greek physician at the court of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric the Great and that of the Frankish king Theuderic I, noted for his authorship of On the Observance of Foods (De observatione ciborum), a valuable source for Late Latin linguistics as well as Byzantine dietetics.
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly ... Food storage in the form of ... 672: Greek fire in Constantinople, Byzantine ...
Secondly was an era of global cooling which started in 536 and ended about 660. The cooling was caused by volcanic eruptions in 536, 540, and 547. The Byzantine historian Procopius said that "the sun put forth its light without brightness." Summer temperatures in Europe dropped as much as 2.5 °C (4.5 °F) and the sky was dimmed from volcanic ...
After 1204, the Byzantine Empire was partitioned into various successor states, with the Latin Empire in control of Constantinople. Following the Fourth Crusade, the Byzantine Empire had fractured into the Greek successor-states of Nicaea, Epirus, and Trebizond, with a multitude of Frankish and Latin possessions occupying the remainder, nominally subject to the Latin Emperors at Constantinople.