The Imperial Library of Constantinople, in the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, was the last of the great libraries of the ancient world. Long after...

Imperial Library may refer to: Imperial Library of Constantinople Various libraries maintained by imperial households of China Wenjin Chamber Wenlan Chamber...

century, the Imperial Library of Constantinople had 120,000 volumes and was the largest library in Europe. A fire in 477 consumed the entire library but it...

staff for libraries in Egypt and across the Middle East. Egypt portal Book burning Imperial Library of Constantinople List of destroyed libraries Załuski...

to study there. The Imperial Library of Constantinople (337–361 A.D. – 29 May 473) (Constantinople, modern Istanbul) The library was established by Constantius...

of Constantinople ordered the closure of all Latin churches in Constantinople. In 1054, the papal legate sent by Leo IX travelled to Constantinople in...

move away from the use of Roman numerals. 1204 – The Imperial Library of Constantinople is destroyed by Christian knights of the Fourth Crusade and its...

Libraries have been deliberately or accidentally destroyed or badly damaged. Sometimes a library is purposely destroyed as a form of culturicide. There...

and extensive acquisitions, among them manuscripts from the imperial Library of Constantinople. Pope Nicholas also expanded his collection by employing Italian...

medical Academy of Gondishapur; libraries included the Library of Alexandria and the Imperial Library of Constantinople; and other centers of translation...

Constantinople (see other names) was a historical city located on the Bosporus that served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman empires...

Anatolius of Constantinople (Greek: Ἀνατόλιος; died 3 July 458) was a Patriarch of Constantinople (November 449 – 3 July 458). He is regarded as a saint...

The Hippodrome of Constantinople (Greek: Ἱππόδρομος τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, romanized: Hippódromos tēs Kōnstantinoupóleōs; Latin: Circus Maximus Constantinopolitanus;...

(imperial cemetery), was a Byzantine Eastern Orthodox church in Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. The first structure dated to the 4th...

Rhine. The Imperial Library of Constantinople is founded. Ammianus Marcellinus describes the Pantheon as being "rounded like the boundary of the horizon...

The Fall of Constantinople, also known as the Conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire...

The Imperial University of Constantinople, sometimes known as the University of the Palace Hall of Magnaura (Greek: Πανδιδακτήριον τῆς Μαγναύρας), was...

Serbia and Russia, eroded the importance of the old imperial sees. Today, only the sees of Rome and of Constantinople still hold authority over an entire major...

garrisoned in and around the capital of Constantinople. Most of them traced their origins to the Imperial guard units of the late antique Roman Empire. By...

The history of Constantinople covers the period from the Consecration of the city in 330, when Constantinople became the new capital of the Roman Empire...

Μάγγανα) was one of the quarters of Byzantine-era Constantinople. Located on the easternmost edge of the Sirkeci peninsula, it housed an imperial palace, arsenal...

First Council of Constantinople (Latin: Concilium Constantinopolitanum; Ancient Greek: Σύνοδος τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως) was a council of Christian bishops...

bishop in Constantinople and was considered for the prefecture there. His high rank indicates that Britain was still considered an important imperial possession...

First Council of Constantinople in 381, Nicean Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire when Theodosius I, emperor of the East, Gratian...

chapel joined together and represents the best example of Middle Byzantine architecture in Constantinople. After Hagia Sophia, it is the largest Byzantine religious...

medical academy of Jundishapur; libraries included the Library of Alexandria and the Imperial Library of Constantinople; other centers of translation and...

of his new imperial capital at Constantinople Bjornlie, M. Shane (2013). Politics and Tradition Between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople: A Study of Cassiodorus...

sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Crusaders sacked and destroyed most of Constantinople, the...

Horn and damages eight of the city's fourteen regions. 473 – Imperial Library of Constantinople burned. 476 – Basilica Cistern rebuilt (approximate date)...

medical academy of Jundishapur; libraries included the Library of Alexandria and the Imperial Library of Constantinople; other centers of translation and...