After Scupi was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake in 518 AD, Justinian, according to his historian Procopius in " De Aedificiis " ( On the Buildings ), built a new city near his birthplace Tauresium and Bederiana ( believed to be today's villages Taor and Bader ) at the fertile entry point of the River Lepenec into the Vardar, making Skopje the city of Justiniana Prima.

33 ); Perozes ( Procopius, De Bello Pers.

Constantius II built there a magnificent bridge over the Pyramus ( Malalas, Chronographia, XIII ; P. G., XCVII, 488 ) afterwards restored by Justinian ( Procopius, De Edificiis, V. 5 ) and has been restored again recently.

This etymology was questioned by Russu: Axiopa, a name attested to only in Procopius ' De Aedificiis, may be a corrupt form of Axiopolis .< ref > See and.

* The Székelys have historically claimed descent from Attila's Huns ( repeated in Procopius ’ De bello Gothico ), and believed they played a special role in shaping Hungary.

* Procopius, De Bello Persico, Volume I., De Bello Gothico, Volume I.

Outside of mythology, the probable ancestors of the Ubykh were mentioned in book IV of Procopius ' De Bello Gothico ( The Gothic War ), under the name βροῦχοι ( Bruchi ), a corruption of the native term tʷaχ.

XL, 30, 31 ; Eugipp., 44, 4 ) and the Greek transcription – Nόβας given by Procopius ( De aed.

Procopius ( De ædif., V, iv ) informs us that this fortified site, in north-western Cappadocia, was constituted metropolis of Cappadocia Tertia by Justinian, when he divided that province into three parts, and gave it the name of Justinianopolis.

Procopius, De Aedificiis and the poem of Paulus Silentiarius on the dedication of St. Sophia should be read in connexion with this subject.

The letters of Cassiodorus, chief minister and literary adviser of Amalasuntha, and the histories of Procopius and Jordanes, give us our chief information as to the character of Amalasuntha.

Bede's account of the early migrations of the Angles and Saxons to England omits any mention of a movement of those peoples across the channel from Britain to Brittany described by Procopius, who was writing in the sixth century.

Ossetic bættən " bind ", bast " bound ") and Iranian * arna-" offspring ", equating it with the δουλόσποροι " slave Sporoi " mentioned by Nonnus and Cosmas, where Sporoi is the people Procopius mentions as the ancestors of the Slavs.

The Historian Procopius, in his Secret History, claims that the emperor Justinian attempted to interfere with the Jewish calendar in the 6th century, and a modern writer has suggested that this measure may have been directed against the protopaschites.

Procopius records that after about five years, Abraha deposed the viceroy and made himself king ( Histories 1. 20 ).

Gothic has no direct testimony of * albs, plural * albeis, but Procopius has the personal name Albila.

Procopius, The Vandalic War ( III. 2. 25 – 26 )

Major sources for Gothic history include Ammianus Marcellinus ' Res gestae, which mentions Gothic involvement in the civil war between emperors Procopius and Valens of 365 and recounts the Gothic refugee crisis and revolt of 376 – 82, and Procopius ' de bello gothico, which describes the Gothic war of 535 – 52.

Procopius interpreted the name Visigoth as " western Goths " and the name Ostrogoth as " eastern Goth ", reflecting the geographic distribution of the Gothic realms at that time.

Dengizich is believed to have been king ( khan ) of the Kutrigur Bulgars, and Ernakh king ( khan ) of the Utigur Bulgars, whilst Procopius claimed that Kutrigurs and Utigurs were named after, and led by two of the sons of Ernakh.

Similarly, the 6th century Slavs were presented as Hun groups by Procopius.

Procopius provides the primary source for the history of Justinian's reign.

Another contemporary chronicler, Procopius, compares Justinian's appearance to that of tyrannical Emperor Domitian, although this is probably slander.

Procopius relates that 30, 000 unarmed civilians were killed in the Hippodrome.

Justinian was a prolific builder ; the historian Procopius bears witness to his activities in this area.

In Justinian's era, and partly under his patronage, Byzantine culture produced noteworthy historians, including Procopius and Agathias, and poets such as Paul the Silentiary and Romanus the Melodist flourished during his reign.

* Procopius.

* Procopius, The Secret History, translated by G. A.

* The Anekdota (" Secret history ") of Procopius in English translation.

* The Buildings of Procopius in English translation.

Other writers, e. g. Procopius, wrote works which are extant on the later history of the Goths.

He had presented the first German performances of Puccini's Manon Lescaut and De Falla's La Vida Breve.

At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.

We walked down the Rue De L'Arcade, thence along beside the Madeleine and across to a sidewalk cafe opposite that church.

The Boulevard De La Madeleine, the Boulevard Malesherbes, and the Rue Royale ran to it with graceful flattery, bearing tidings of the Age of Reason.

Thomas De Torquemada, Inquisitor-General of the Spanish Inquisition, put many persons to death.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

De Revolutionibus is not just a collection of facts and techniques.

Hence, noting the simplicity achieved in Copernicus' formulation does not provide another reason for the acceptance of De Revolutionibus, another reason beyond its systematic superiority.

Granted, the cosmological, philosophical, and cultural reverberations initiated by the De Revolutionibus were felt with increasing violence during the 300 years to follow.

The result was the `` Gross Report '', prepared by Gross, as chairman, with the assistance of two U.N. Under Secretaries, Constantin Stavropoulos and Philippe De Seynes.

We did our job, Mr. Stavropoulos and Mr. De Seynes and myself, taking evidence from a number of people ''.

From Milan came the young Chevalier De Litta, an officer in the service of Malta.

and the artillerist, Colonel Prevost, whom the Count De Segur had persuaded to lend his technical skills to Nassau.

Right now he found Sophie De Witt, that magnificent young matron he had spotted at Kamieniec four years ago.

In order to prevent this, Washington hastened to dispatch several units to reinforce the fort, including a force under the Marquis De Lafayette containing some 160 of Morgan's riflemen, all who were fit for duty at this time, the rest having no shoes.

By 1913, Ferdinand Lot could begin an article subtitled `` La Conquete De La Grande-Bretagne par Les Saxons '' with the words, `` Il est difficile aujourd'hui d'entretenir des illusions sur la valeur du recit traditionnel de la conquete de la Grande-Bretagne.

Then we have surviving at least one instance of a poem prepared for another, in Naturam non Pati Senium, and perhaps also the De Idea Platonica.

Having whipped Mr. De Sapio in the primaries and thus come into control of Tammany Hall, they have changed the name to Chatham Hall.

In a brighter nautical vein is Ille De France blue.

Monsieur De Cury was incensed, of course.

Back and forth Duclos had to go, between M. De Cury and Jean Jacques and between the Duke D'Aumont and Jean Jacques again, as his little operetta, The Village Soothsayer, though still unperformed, took on ever more importance.

And Madame De Pompadour ''.

The Abbot of St. Eloi, Claude De Mommor, had been a good friend, but not even he thought Charles deserved burial in hallowed ground.

Alex's instruction was rapid, for the doctor had to go off to the Rue Ecole De Medecine to hear more speeches with only time for one sip of wine to sustain him through them all.

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.