* Alexander ( emperor ), Byzantine Emperor ( 912 – 913 )

Alexander ), especially common in the later Byzantine Empire.

* 912 – Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

The traditional story is that Ptolemy II sponsored the translation for use by the many Alexandrian Jews who were fluent in Koine Greek ( the lingua franca of the Eastern Mediterranean from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE, until the development of Byzantine Greek around 600 CE ), but not in Hebrew.

Concerned over rumours that Alexander III was about to enter into an alliance with the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I, in October 1166, he embarked on his fourth Italian campaign, hoping as well to secure the claim of Paschal III, and the coronation of his wife Beatrice as Holy Roman Empress.

* Alexander III, Byzantine Emperor

For his part, commentator Alexander Kiossev, wrote in " Understanding the Balkans: " The hero of one nation might be the villain of its neighbour (...) The Byzantine emperor Basil the Murderer ( sic ) of Bulgarians, a crucial figure in the Greek pantheon of heroes, is no less important as a subject of hatred for our national mythology ".

* Alexander, who succeeded as Byzantine emperor in 912.

An epistolary wonder tale with parallels suggesting its author knew the Romance of Alexander and the above-mentioned Acts of Thomas, the Letter was supposedly written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus ( 1143 – 1180 ) by Prester John, descendant of one of the Three Magi and King of India.

He also wrote biographies of Pope Alexander VI and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as works on Byzantine history and medieval Athens, and translated Italian authors into German, among them Giovanni Melis.

In the 6th century, the Byzantine historian Procopius ( d. after 562 ) saw Attila and the Huns as the nation locked out by Alexander, and a little later other Christian writers identified them with the Saracens.

Usages cited include the pattern of blue and white formations ( created from placing white metal layers on a blue surface ) on the shield of Achilles, the connection of the colors with goddess Athena, Alexander the Great's army banners, blue and white flags supposedly used during Byzantine times, supposed coats of arms of imperial dynasties and noble families, uniforms, emperors ' clothes, patriarchs ' thrones etc.

Alexander (, Alexandros, c. 870 – 913 ), sometimes numbered Alexander III, ruled as Emperor of the Byzantine Empire in 912 – 913.

In 629 CE Emperor Heraclius, having changed the official language to Greek nine years earlier, adopted the title of basileus, previously used by Alexander the Great as a translations for emperor and it is thereafter used interchangeably ( and often in conjunction with ) autokrator in the Byzantine Empire.

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During the time of the Second Bulgarian Empire it was also contested by Bulgarian and Byzantine forces and enjoyed particular prosperity under Bulgarian tsar Ivan Alexander ( 1331 – 1371 ) until it was conquered by Crusaders led by Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy in 1366.

Following the death of his elder brother, who had been fighting against the Byzantine Empire, Béla could only ascend to the throne with the assistance of his uncle Emperor Manuel I and Pope Alexander III, because a significant part of the Hungarian aristocracy led by his own mother and the Archbishop of Esztergom preferred his younger brother's succession.

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A chariot carrying an actor portraying Alexander the Great introduced images from the Hellenistic period, which in turn were followed by representations of Byzantine art, the Greek War of Independence, and lastly of 20th century elements of Greek culture, such as the popular shadow-theatre figure Karagiozis, who is said to be a humorous and self-deprecating depiction ( and parody ) of Greek mentality.

It then followed the fate of the rest of the Dodecanese Islands during the years of Alexander the Great and his successors, the Roman years and the Byzantine period.

That the Byzantine – Arab Wars would have been referenced in the manuscript, had it been written after 636 AD, is supported by the fact that in 692 AD a Syriac Christian adaption of the Alexander romance called the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius was indeed written as a response to the Muslim invasions and was falsely attributed to St Methodius (?- 311 AD ); this Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius equated the evil nations of Gog and Magog with the Muslim invaders and shaped the eschatological imagination of Christendom for centuries.

Seal of the Greek Macedonian Committee depicting Alexander the Great and Byzantine Emperor Basil II.

Alexander is apparently mentioned in the Edicts of Ashoka, as one of the recipients of the Indian Emperor Ashoka's Buddhist proselytism, although no Western historical record of this event remains.

Alexander Alexandrovich () ( 10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894 ), known historically as Alexander III or Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Emperor of Russia from until his death on.

Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov was born on 10 March 1845 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the second son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his wife Maria Alexandrovna ( Marie of Hesse ).

Severus Alexander (; 1 October 208 – 18 or 19 March 235 ) was Roman Emperor from 222 to 235.

Alexander was the heir apparent to his cousin, the eighteen-year-old Emperor who had been murdered along with his mother by his own guards, who, as a mark of contempt, had their remains cast into the Tiber river.

In 221, Alexander's grandmother, Maesa, persuaded the Emperor to adopt his cousin as successor and make him Caesar and Bassianus changed his name to Alexander.

* Alexander I of Russia ( 1801 – 1825 ), Emperor of Russia

* Alexander II of Russia ( 1818 – 1881 ), Emperor of Russia

Andronikos III's attempt to make up for this setback by annexing Bulgarian Thrace failed in 1332, when he was defeated by the new Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Alexander at Rousokastron.

However, during the schism between Pope Alexander III and Antipope Victor IV, Absalon stayed loyal to Valdemar even as he joined the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barberossa in supporting Victor IV.

* 2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

Second and more important, there were continuous movements of new peoples since the time of Emperor Severus Alexander.

Emperor Wu of Han ( r. 141 BC-87 BC ) went to war with the Dayuan for this reason, since the Dayuan were hording a massive amount of tall, strong, Central Asian bred horses in the Hellenized – Greek region of Fergana ( established slightly earlier by Alexander the Great ).

* Monument to Emperor Alexander II of Russia in Kiev ( 1911 )

Francis's brother Alexander Leopold ( at that time Palatine of Hungary ) wrote to the Emperor admitting " Although we have caught a lot of the culprits, we have not really got to the bottom of this business yet.

* 221 – Roman Emperor mordecai adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.

* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.

* 235 – Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea are murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum ( modern Mainz ).

Maria Feodorovna ( 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928 ), born Princess Dagmar of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, later styled Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress consort of Russia as spouse of Emperor Alexander III.