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In the 290s and 280s BC, the Celtic peoples who were migrating towards the Balkan Peninsula passed through Transdanubia but some of the tribes settled on the territory.

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The Jovians () and Herculians ( Latin: Herculiani ) were the senior palatine imperial guard units of the Emperors of the late Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire from the 290s until the 7th century.

290s and .
During the 290s BC, Hellenistic civilization begins its emergence throughout the successor states of the former Argead Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great resulting in the diffusion of Greek culture throughout the Ancient world and advances in Science, mathematics, philosophy and etc.
These indicate that Timocharis worked in Alexandria during the 290s and 280s BCE.
But the aggressive tendencies of the Sasanians were evident in their propagation of Zoroastrianism, which was probably established in Iberia between the 260s and 290s.
In May – June 1944, three Ju 290s were shot down.
No other action of Lysimachus is known north of Haemus until the clash with Dromichaetes in the 290s BC.
These should all be " American " models, but it has been rumored that a few " Classic " models may have received 290s as inventory of 287s ran low.
Later, in the 290s, the Emperor Diocletian carried out a series of administrative reforms, ushering the period of the Dominate.

Eusebius and began
280s ), he began teaching Eusebius, who was then somewhere between twenty and twenty-five.
However, the New Prophecy, as described by Eusebius of Caesarea, departed from Church tradition: " And he became beside himself, and being suddenly in a sort of frenzy and ecstasy, he raved, and began to babble and utter strange things, prophesying in a manner contrary to the constant custom of the Church handed down by tradition from the beginning.
Eusebius places him in the fourth year of the reign of Augustus, which is supposed to be when he began to attract critical acclaim by his writing.
Only Eusebius ' History, in a Latin translation by Rufinus competed with it as the official version of church history in the West, until original sources began to be rediscovered, edited and printed by humanist scholars in the 15th century.

Eusebius and work
Bede also followed Eusebius in taking the Acts of the Apostles as the model for the overall work: where Eusebius used the Acts as the theme for his description of the development of the church, Bede made it the model for his history of the Anglo-Saxon church.
Although Eusebius wrote of eight books of the work, only seven undoubtably survive.
There are two separate sections of the work dedicated to Clement ( 5, 11 and 6, 6 ), the of latter which seems decidedly out of place, and Valesius argued that this was evidence that Eusebius never revised his work.
His successor at the see of Caesarea, Acacius, wrote a Life of Eusebius, but this work has been lost.
After the Emperor's death ( c. 337 ), Eusebius wrote the Life of Constantine, an important historical work because of eye witness accounts and the use of primary sources.
Eusebius ' Onomasticon ( more properly On the Place-Names in the Holy Scripture, the name Eusebius gives to it ) is a work that moderns would recognize as a gazetteer, a directory of place names, but which ancients had no category for.
Eusebius ' description of his own method —" I shall collect the entries from the whole of the divinely inspired Scriptures, and I shall set them out grouped by their initial letters so that one may easily perceive what lies scattered throughout the text "— implies that he had no similar type of book to work from ; his work was entirely original, based only on the text of the Bible.
In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as ' a liar ', the “ first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity .” Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which “ Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed ..., matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence .” As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullens view has distorted modern attempts, ( e. g. Harnack, Nock, and Brady ), to describe how the Church grew in the early centuries.
" The work was unfinished at Eusebius ' death.
* a treatise against Hierocles ( a Roman governor ), in which Eusebius combated the former's glorification of Apollonius of Tyana in a work entitled A Truth-loving Discourse ( Greek: Philalethes logos );
But its value for many later readers is more because Eusebius studded this work with so many fascinating and lively fragments from historians and philosophers which are nowhere else preserved.
The fragments given as the Commentary on Luke in the PG have been claimed to derive from the missing tenth book of the General Elementary Introduction ( see D. S. Wallace-Hadrill ); however, Aaron Johnson has argued that they cannot be associated with this work ( see “ The Tenth Book of Eusebius ’ General Elementary Introduction: A Critique of the Wallace-Hadrill Thesis ,” Journal of Theological Studies, 62. 1 ( 2011 ): 144-160 ).
Eusebius also wrote a work Quaestiones ad Stephanum et Marinum, " On the Differences of the Gospels " ( including solutions ).
This work was recently ( 2011 ) translated into the English language by David J. Miller and Adam C McCollum ( edited by Roger Pearse ) and was published under the name " Eusebius of Caesarea: Gospel Problems and Solutions.
* Other critics of Eusebius ' work cite the panegyrical tone of the Vita, plus the omission of internal Christian conflicts in the Canones, as reasons to interpret his writing with caution.
According to Eusebius and Plutarch, Herodotus was granted a financial reward by the Athenian assembly in recognition of his work and there may be some truth in this.
Despite numerous errors taken over from Eusebius, and some of his own, Jerome produced a valuable work, if only for the impulse which it gave to such later chroniclers as Prosper, Cassiodorus, and Victor of Tunnuna to continue his annals.
The extant work under the title " On the Sovereignty of God " does not correspond with Eusebius ' description of it, though Harnack regards it as still possibly Justin's, and at least of the 2nd century.
Other sources attribute the early work to Hegesippus and Irenaeus, having been continued by Eusebius of Caesarea.

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Eusebius and Theognis remained in the Emperor's favour, and when Constantine, who had been a catechumen much of his adult life, accepted baptism on his deathbed, it was from Eusebius of Nicomedia.
The efforts to get Arius brought out of exile on the parts of Eusebius of Nicomedia were chiefly political concerns and there is little evidence that any of Arius ’ writings were used as doctrinal norms even in the East.
This was based on parts of Isidore of Seville's Etymologies, and Bede also include a chronology of the world which was derived from Eusebius, with some revisions based on Jerome's translation of the bible.
Dioscorus then moved to depose Flavian and Eusebius of Dorylaeum on the grounds that they taught the Word had been made flesh and not just assumed flesh from the Virgin and that Christ had two natures.
Eusebius claims, in his Life of Constantine, that the site of the Church had originally been a Christian place of veneration, but that Hadrian had deliberately covered these Christian sites with earth, and built his own temple on top, due to his hatred for Christianity.
Rhetorically Eusebius records the Oracle as saying " The just on Earth ..." These impious, Diocletian was informed by members of the court, could only refer to the Christians of the Empire.
According to Eusebius, a number of synods were convened to deal with the controversy, which he regarded as all ruling in support of Easter on Sunday.
Since he was on the losing side of the long 4th-century contest between the allies and enemies of Arianism ( Eusebius was an early and vocal supporter of Arius ), posterity did not have much respect for Eusebius ' person and was neglectful in the preservation of his writings.
The information used to create the late-fourth-century Easter Letter, which declared accepted Christian writings, was probably based on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by Origen to create both his list at HE 3: 25 and Origen ’ s list at HE 6: 25.
At about the same time, Eusebius worked on his Chronicle, a universal calendar of events from Creation to Eusebius ' own time.
The literary productions of Eusebius reflect on the whole the course of his life.
In his Church History or Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius wrote the first surviving history of the Christian Church as a chronologically-ordered account, based on earlier sources complete from the period of the Apostles to his own epoch.
As the historian Socrates Scholasticus said, at the opening of his history that was designed as a continuation of Eusebius, " Also in writing the life of Constantine, this same author has but slightly treated of matters regarding Arius, being more intent on the rhetorical finish of his composition and the praises of the emperor, than on an accurate statement of facts.
Eusebius also wrote treatises on Biblical archaeology:

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