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Realistic portrait of the last Byzantine ruler found in Greek monastery
A unique portrait of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, was discovered at the Old Monastery of the Archangels in Aigialeia, Greece. The finding was made during ...
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Byzantine Empire—or Republic?
The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense ...
Greek Reporter3d
Who Was The Best Roman Emperor in History?
What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?
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how does the byzantine empire become rich and successful?
In the Byzantine Empire of the medieval period ... During the year 306 CE, Constantine I became the emperor. renamed Byzantium to Constantinople and changed it from a Greek city to a capital of the ...
Greek Reporter10d
Dozens of Amphorae Recovered From Ancient Byzantine Shipwreck in Greece
Excavations of an ancient Byzantine shipwreck off the coast of Fournoi near Samos, Greece are bringing new finds onto the ...