• Empire, the synkellos of the Patriarch of Constantinople quickly acquired a pre-eminent position, and it often happened that a synkellos succeeded to...
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  • the Great Church, including the synkellos...men of high repute and worthy of respect"; it is unknown whether the synkellos in question was George himself...
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  • Michael Synkellos is complicated by the existence of three or four 9th-century writers named Michael who were identified by their office of synkellos. Michael...
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  • Theodore Synkellos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Σύγκελλος) was a Byzantine clergyman, diplomat and writer who flourished in the first half of the 7th century. He...
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    Byzantine Studies, London, 2006, pages 2–4. George Synkellos. The Chronography of George Synkellos: a Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the...
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    Jerusalem. Theophanes Vita prima was recorded in the Life of Michael the Synkellos. Theophanes and his brother Theodore were born in Palestine near the end...
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  • Syncellus or synkellos (Greek: σύγκελλος) is an ecclesiastical office in the Eastern Catholic or Orthodox Churches. As part of a name, it can also refer...
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    188-332". George Synkellos, Paul Tuffin, William Adler, The Chronography of George Synkellos ISBN 0199241902 2002 p 503 George Synkellos, Paul Tuffin, William...
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  • some time before 996, and no earlier than 976. By 996, he also served as synkellos of the Patriarch of Constantinople. The patriarchal see had been vacant...
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    Strength George of Pisidia: 80,000 troops 30,000 from vanguard Theodore Synkellos: Less than 8,000 troops, outnumbered 10+ to 1 Modern estimates: 15,000...
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  • Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX sent an army under the command of Basil the Synkellos, Nikephoros Botaneiates, and the Doux of Bulgaria, to guard the Danube...
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    Edition, 13 Vols., 1908–14. Vol. 4, pp. 163. Synkellos, George (2002). The chronography of George Synkellos: a Byzantine chronicle of universal history...
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    pp. 415–416. Torgerson, Jesse (2022). The Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes. Brill. p. 7. Burke, John, and Roger Scott, Byzantine Macedonia:...
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    (2002). Adler, William; Tuffin, Paul (eds.). The Chronography of George Synkellos: a Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation. Oxford:...
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    Magyars. This identification was made by Isidore of Seville, Theodore Synkellos, the Anonymi Bele regis notarii Gesta Hungarorum, and the Chronicon Pictum...
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    deposited in the basilica in Blachernae. In the 7th century, Theodore Synkellos records that the relic and its casket had been stolen from a Jewish widow...
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    Fall of the Roman Empire. London. Theophanes the Confessor; George of Synkellos (1997). Cronographia. Translated by Mango, Cyril; Scott, Roger; Greatrex...
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    including one by one of several Middle Byzantine writers known as Michael the Synkellos, among the forty-two were Kallistos, the doux of the Koloneian thema,...
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  • Hellenistic Monarchies of Asia Minor according to the Chronography of George Synkellos". In Højte, Jakob Munk (ed.). Mithridates VI and the Pontic Kingdom. Black...
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  • relocated to Constantinople as a young man, as his fellow historian George Synkellos had relocated from Palestine. The Chronicle contains 26 chapters. Peter's...
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  • Chronicle (2005) pp.188-332". George Synkellos, Paul Tuffin, William Adler, The Chronography of George Synkellos ISBN 0199241902 2002 p 503 Œnomaus of...
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  • George Synkellos: a Byzantine chronicle of universal history from the creation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, (ISBN 978-0199241903). Synkellos copied...
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  • Hellenistic Monarchies of Asia Minor According to Chorography of George Synkellos p.9 Callatay, The First Royal Coinage of Pontos (from Mithridates III...
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    northeastern Anatolia, while John-Tornike was conferred with the title synkellos (assistant to the patriarch of Constantinople). More importantly, the...
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  • and not him, as co-emperor. According to the hagiography of Michael Synkellos, there were further seven siblings, whose names are not mentioned. In...
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    beginning of his reign. He was supported by John the Grammarian, patriarchal synkellos (secretary) of Patriarch Antony I of Constantinople. Theophanes Continuatus...
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  • this would usually imply the position of magister officiorum, Theodore Synkellos calls him "the general" (strategos), possibly implying that he held the...
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    for the monastery of Žiča. He soon became St. Sava's disciple and his synkellos. He was appointed as the ecclesiarch of the monastery and later Archimandrite...
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    Byzantines, but that history only really covers from 582 to 602. Theodore the Synkellos has a surviving speech, which was made during the Siege of Constantinople...
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    Greek fragments preserved in the work of the Byzantine chronicler George Synkellos (IX sec.) and first published by Joseph Justus Scaliger in 1606. Although...
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