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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 ...
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 ...
Antioch on the Orontes ( / ˈænti.ɒk /; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, romanized : Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou, pronounced [anti.ó.kʰeː.a]) [ note 1] was a Hellenistic Greek city [ 1][ 2] founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC. [ 3] One of the most important Greek cities of the Hellenistic period, [ 2 ...
The double-headed eagle is an iconographic symbol originating in the Bronze Age. A heraldic charge, it is used with the concept of an empire. Most modern uses of the emblem are directly or indirectly associated with its use by the late Byzantine Empire, originally a dynastic emblem of the Palaiologoi.
The Byzantine Empire was the direct legal continuation of the eastern half of the Roman Empire following the division of the Roman Empire in 395. Emperors listed below up to Theodosius I in 395 were sole or joint rulers of the entire Roman Empire. The Western Roman Empire continued until 476.
Byzantine Empire. 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 that caused the fall of the West in the 5th century AD, and continued to exist until the fall ...
Tynker is an educational programming platform to help children learn coding skills, including game design, web design, animation and robotics. It includes courses in Minecraft Modding, Minecraft Game Design, Creative Coding, Python and CSS. Tynker is based on HTML5 and JavaScript, and can be used in browsers, or on tablet computers or smartphones.
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 ...