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    California Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0520049987. El-Cheikh, Nadia Maria (2004). Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs. Harvard CMES. pp. 95, 132 n. 40. ISBN 978-0-932885-30-2...
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    tombstones, under the leadership of a certain Leo in 340 BC, against an attack by Philip II of Macedon. Byzantium was relatively unimportant during the early...
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    The reconstituted caliphate sought to break Byzantium by taking Constantinople, but the newly crowned Leo III managed to repel the 717–718 siege, the...
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    Leo Sgouros (Greek: Λέων Σγουρός), Latinized as Leo Sgurus, was a Greek independent lord in the northeastern Peloponnese in the early 13th century. The...
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    of Byzantium. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4443-5997-8. Kaldellis 2017, p. 41. Treadgold 1997, pp. 498–499. Whittow 1996, pp. 348–349. Leo the...
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    very probably that Kayqubad and his brother Kaykaus I, who both spent considerable time in Byzantium with their father, had the same dual religious (Christian...
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    1201–1204. University of Pennsylvania Press. Van Tricht, Filip (2011). The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204–1228). Leiden:...
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  • Castinus I (Greek: Καστῖνος; died 237) was reputedly the Bishop of Byzantium between 230 and 237. In some catalogues, he appears as Constantine. He was...
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    kingdoms who tried to conquer it throughout history. Originally known as Byzantium in classical antiquity, the first recorded siege of the city occurred...
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    Note on Byzantium's Year of the Four Emperors". Byzantinische Zeitschrift. 83 (2): 431–33. doi:10.1515/byzs.1990.83.2.431. S2CID 194092611. Van Tricht...
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    Norwich, John J. (1991). Byzantium: The Apogee. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 0-394-53779-3. Sophoulis, Panos (2011). Byzantium and Bulgaria, 775-831. BRILL...
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  • Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. New York, New York and Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6. van Millingen, Alexander...
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    concessions from Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Subsequent extensions of these privileges and Byzantium's own naval impotence at the time resulted...
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  • fille (1155–1207)". Byzantion. 38 (1): 123–179. Van Tricht, Filip (2011). The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204–1228). Brill...
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    posthumous son, Raymond-Roupen. Raymond-Roupen's mother, Alice, was the niece of Leo I of Cilicia who persuaded the Antiochene noblemen to acknowledge Raymond-Roupen's...
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  • of Leo I Ruben II, prince 1169–1170, son of Theodore II Mleh, prince 1170–1175, son of Leo I Ruben III, prince 1175–1186, grandson of Leo I Leo I "the...
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    the Armeniacs under their respective strategoi (generals) Leo the Isaurian and Artabasdos. Leo declared himself emperor in the summer of 716 and allied...
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    Patriarch Michael I Cerularius of Constantinople ordered the closure of all Latin churches in Constantinople. In 1054, the papal legate sent by Leo IX travelled...
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    2023-08-09. Omissi 2018, p. 131. Van Tricht, Filip (2011). "The Imperial Ideology". The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204–1228)...
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    origin include Romanos I, John I Tzimiskes, Artabasdos, Philippikos Bardanes and Leo V. Armenia made great contributions to Byzantium through its troops of...
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    Siege of Constantinople (717–718) (category Leo III the Isaurian)
    repercussions. The rescue of Constantinople ensured the continued survival of Byzantium, while the Caliphate's strategic outlook was altered: although regular...
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    Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780870997778. Fine, John Van Antwerp...
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    converted to Christianity and entered into an alliance with Byzantium, which, under Leo VI the Wise, encouraged them to fight against the Khazars. By...
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    appearance has been described very clearly by Leo the Deacon, who himself attended the meeting of Sviatoslav with John I Tzimiskes. Following Deacon's memories...
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    claimed descent from the Phokas family. Under the rule of the Doukids, Byzantium was fighting a losing battle against the Seljuk Turks, losing most of...
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    high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as Pope Leo I, who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua and obtained from him...
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    Nicetae Choniatae Historia, ed. Jan Louis van Dieten, Berlin (CFHB #11), 1975 (ISBN 3110045281). O City of Byzantium: Annals of Niketas Choniates, trans. Harry...
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    1453: The End of Byzantium (Campaign). Vol. 78. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-091-9. Norwich, John Julius (1995). Byzantium: The Decline and...
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  • different names. The most notable names besides the modern Turkish name are Byzantium, Constantinople, and Stamboul. Different names are associated with different...
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    Alexios II Komnenos (category Manuel I Komnenos)
    Jonathan, Byzantium and the Crusades, Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2014. ISBN 978-1-78093-767-0 Magdalino, Paul (2002) [1993]. The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos...
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