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    The Arch of Galerius (Greek: Αψίδα του Γαλερίου) or Kamara (Καμάρα) and the Rotunda (Ροτόντα) are neighbouring early 4th-century AD monuments in the city...
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    Emperor Galerius. Arch of Galerius and Rotunda Civil wars of the Tetrarchy In the West; proclaimed by Maximian. In the West; proclaimed by Galerius. In the...
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  • by a dome Rotunda of Saint Catherine in Znojmo Arch of Galerius and Rotunda, Rotunda of St. George, built in Thessaloniki in 306 AD Rotunda Hospital,...
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    Arch of Galerius and Rotunda in Thessaloniki, Greece, built in 298–299 AD and dedicated in 303 AD to celebrate the victory of the tetrarch Galerius over...
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    and Thracia. During the reign of Diocletian in the late 3rd century, the western Balkans were organized as a Roman diocese, and was ruled by Galerius...
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    Dacian draco (category Military history of Dacia)
    268–270) and Aurelian (r.270–275). The characteristic Dacian dragon emblem is carried by a group of Dacian horsemen depicted on the Arch of Galerius and Rotunda...
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    The conquest of Constantinople and the fall of the Byzantine Empire was a watershed of the Late Middle Ages, marking the effective end of the Roman Empire...
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    The ciborium was hexagonal and made of wood and silver. There are also an arch and fragments of arches from a Byzantine ciborium over the altar, which...
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    made it an effective and destructive naval incendiary weapon, and rival powers tried unsuccessfully to copy the material. Usage of the term "Greek fire"...
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    prior knowledge of flying buttresses, which can also be seen at in Greece, at the Rotunda of Galerius in Thessaloniki, at the monastery of Hosios Loukas...
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    built on the land that links Europe to Asia through Bosporus and connects the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. As a transcontinental city within the Silk...
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    emperors were successful in defending and consolidating the empire against the caliphates after the onslaught of the early Muslim conquests, but were less...
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    city of Jerusalem, but a sequence of economic and political events culminated in the Crusader army sacking the city of Constantinople, the capital of the...
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    capital of the Empire until 476, when it became the capital of Odoacer, and then of the Ostrogoths under Theodoric the Great. It remained the capital of the...
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    emperor of the Heraclian dynasty, reigning from 685 to 695 and again from 705 to 711. Like his namesake, Justinian I, Justinian II was an ambitious and passionate...
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  • 1978 Thessaloniki earthquake (category Modern history of Thessaloniki)
    such as the Arch of Galerius and Rotunda and the Church of the Acheiropoietos. List of earthquakes in Greece Utsu, T. R. (2002), "A List of Deadly Earthquakes...
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    altar retable of the Basilica di San Marco in Venice. It is universally recognized as one of the most refined and accomplished works of Byzantine enamel...
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    rose to power and produced the last and longest-ruling dynasty in the history of the Byzantine Empire. Their rule as Emperors and Autocrats of the Romans...
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    in Greece Monuments of Greece Acropolis of Athens Ancient Agora of Athens Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus Arch of Galerius and Rotunda Erechtheion Greek pyramids...
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    Ottoman and modern landmarks and monuments. Some of them are the Arch of Galerius and Rotunda, the Byzantine Bath of the Upper Town, the Basilica of St Demetrios...
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    role in the transmission of classical knowledge to the Islamic world and to Renaissance Italy, and also in the transmission of Islamic science to Renaissance...
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  • Church in the Old Fortress, Corfu St. George's Church (Rotunda), part of the Arch of Galerius and Rotunda, Thessaloniki St. George Orthodox Church, Cheppad...
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    later, becoming popular in the 10th and 11th centuries. An example is that of Basil Lekapenos, the illegitimate son of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos, who was...
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    of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople...
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    Church of the Holy Apostles), many were converted into mosques (among them the Hagia Sophia and Chora Church in Constantinople, and the Rotunda and Hagios...
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    Byzantine cuisine was the continuation of local ancient Greek cuisine, ancient Roman cuisine and Mediterranean cuisine. Byzantine trading with foreigners...
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    straddling the Bosporus strait and lying in both Europe and Asia, and the financial centre of Turkey. In 324, after the Western and Eastern Roman Empires were...
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    Byzantine Empire under the Angelos dynasty (category States and territories disestablished in 1204)
    was ruled by emperors of the Angelos dynasty between 1185 and 1204 AD. The Angeloi rose to the throne following the deposition of Andronikos I Komnenos...
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    is stylistically and structurally indistinguishable from late Roman architecture. The style continued to be based on arches, vaults and domes, often on...
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    Turkish: Hipodrom), was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a square in Istanbul...
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