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As early as the 6th century B.C. the earth was seen to be spherical.
At Eretria the identity of an excavated 7th and 6th century temple to Apollo Daphnephoros, " Apollo, laurel-bearer ", or " carrying off Daphne ", a " place where the citizens are to take the oath ", is identified in inscriptions.
In the 6th century BC the kingdom of Lydia almost expanded to the whole of Asia Minor, until it became a satrapy of the Persian Empire.
Later during the 6th century BC, most of Anatolia was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the Persians having usurped the Medes as the dominant dynasty in Iran.
Also, in the 6th century BC, the Indo-European Armenians founded the Orontid Dynasty in Urartu.
In India, the Ājīvika, Jain, and Cārvāka schools of atomism may date back to the 6th century BCE.
In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.
By the 6th century BC, the Celtic La Tène culture was well established.
The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.
* Pherecydes of Syros ( 6th century BC )
The earliest records of the study of this phenomenon are attributed to the philosopher Pythagoras in the 6th century BC.
In the 6th century BC, the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras wanted to know why some musical intervals seemed more beautiful than others, and he found answers in terms of numerical ratios representing the harmonic overtone series on a string.
Rebuilt by the emperor Justin I after an earthquake in the 6th century, it became Justinopolis ( 525 ); but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I, king of Lesser Armenia, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva.
Area settled by the Alemanni, and sites of Roman-Alamannic battles, 3rd to 6th century
Thus 6th century Gallo-Romans of Gregory's class, surrounded by the ruins of Roman temples and public buildings, attributed the destruction they saw to the plundering raids of the Alemanni.
The gold bracteate of Pliezhausen ( 6th or 7th century ) shows typical iconography of the pagan period.
We know that in the 6th century, the Alemanni were predominantly pagan, and in the 8th century, they were predominantly Christian.
Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.
By the 6th century Alexander's commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was referred to as " the commentator " ().
Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.
Dr. Alastair Northedge, a British archaeologist who wrote a book about findings in ' Anah, wrote that the minaret is ' commonly attributed to the Uqaylid ( dynasty ) and the 5th / 11th century ( AH / AD ), though ... more probably of the 6th / 12th century.

6th and Byzantine
) The mosques that were built after the conquest of Constantinople ( Istanbul ) by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, and influenced by the design of the 6th century Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sophia, had increasingly elevated and large central domes, which create a vertical emphasis that is intended to be more overwhelming ; in order to convey the divine power of Allah, the majesty of the Ottoman Sultan, and the governmental authority of the Ottoman State.
According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th-century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in what is today Croatia in the early 7th century, however that claim is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.
Under Justinian I, reigning in the 6th century, parts of Italy were for a few decades ( re ) conquered from the Ostrogoths: thus, this famous mosaic, featuring the Byzantine emperor in the center, can be admired at Ravenna.
The Gibraltar area and the rest of the South Iberian Peninsula was part of the Byzantine Empire during the second part of the 6th century, later reverting to the Visigoth Kingdom.
The remnants of a Byzantine church dating from the 5th and 6th centuries have also been excavated on the top of Masada.
Rossano Gospels, 6th century, a representative of Byzantine text
But at that time, and down to the 9th century, other bishops too referred to themselves as vicars of Christ, and for another four centuries this description was sometimes used of kings and even judges, as it had been used in the 5th and 6th centuries to refer to the Byzantine emperor.
In the 6th century AD, Byzantine mathematician Anthemius of Tralles used a type of camera obscura in his experiments, Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen ) ( 965 – 1040 ) studied the camera obscura and pinhole camera, Albertus Magnus ( 1193 – 1280 ) discovered silver nitrate, and Georges Fabricius ( 1516 – 71 ) discovered silver chloride.
* Palaestina Salutaris, a Byzantine province established in 6th century, covering the Negev and Transjordan
As late as the 6th century the Eastern Roman empire ( i. e., the Byzantine empire ) was issuing decrees against conversion to Judaism, implying that this was still occurring.
* Theodora ( 6th century ) ( c. 500 – June 28, 548 ), wife of Emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire
Following the conquests of Belisarius for the Emperor Justinian I in the 6th century, Ravenna became the seat of the Byzantine governor of Italy, the Exarch, and was known as the Exarchate of Ravenna.
6th century mosaic in Sant ' Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna portrays Jesus long-haired and bearded, dressed as a Byzantine emperor.
* The church of Santa Eufemia ( 18th century ), gives access to the so-called Stone Carpets Domus ( 6th – 7th century ): this houses splendid mosaics from a Byzantine palace.
The plot is loosely based on the life of the famous general Belisarius of the 6th century Byzantine Empire.
The Byzantine emperor Justinian I erected a Christian church over the Cave of Machpelah in the 6th century CE, which was later destroyed by the Sassanid general Shahrbaraz in 614 when Khosrau II's armies besieged and took Jerusalem.
By the 6th century, Emperor Justinian had re-conquered the area for the Byzantine Empire.
Category: 6th century in the Byzantine Empire
The Eastern Roman Empire controlled it for a time in the 6th century, and a Byzantine province of Pannonia with capital in Sirmium was temporarily restored, but it included only a small south-eastern part of historical Pannonia.
From the 6th century the city was under Byzantine Empire control.
Category: 6th century in the Byzantine Empire
Category: 6th century in the Byzantine Empire
Imitation of Byzantine coin found in Astana, Central Asia, 6th century A. D.
In the 6th century, the Byzantine emperor Maurice I wrote the Strategikon, a manual of war that codified a number of military reforms of the time.

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