Most historians, including Edward Gibbon, date the defeat at Manzikert as the beginning of the end of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Most historians favour a site in the West Midlands, somewhere along the Roman road now known as Watling Street.

Most historians claim that the book was written by Geldre Claes Heinen.

Most historians believe that the word " Dagome " is a melding of two names: the Christian " Dago ," for " Dagobert " ( Mieszko's hypothetical baptismal name ), and the Slavic " Me ," for " Mieszko.

Most historians agree that the emperors called the councils to force the Christian bishops to resolve divisive issues and reach consensus.

Most modern historians dismiss this entire period as being beyond what history can know.

Most contemporary historians still agree that it is unlikely that any of the recorded emperors existed until about five hundred years after Suijin's reign and about a millennium after Jimmu's recorded reign.

Most Holocaust historians identify six German Nazi extermination camps, all in occupied Poland ; two of them, Chełmno and the Auschwitz II, in the western Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany ( October 1939 ), four in the General Government area.

Most historians believe that the older name for Ghent, ' Ganda ', is derived from the Celtic word ' ganda ' which means confluence.

Most biblical scholars and historians of ancient Israel today view the patriarchical narratives, including the life of Jacob, as late ( 6th and 5th centuries BCE ) literary compositions that have ideological and theological purposes but are unreliable for historical reconstruction of the presettlement period of Israel ’ s past.

Most historians sharply criticize Davis for his flawed military strategy, his selection of friends for military commands, and his neglect of homefront crises.

Most historians today, including John's recent biographers Ralph Turner and Lewis Warren, argue that John was an unsuccessful monarch, but note that his failings were exaggerated by 12th-and 13th-century chroniclers.

Most football historians agree that a few schools, notably Saint Louis University ( under coach Eddie Cochems ), Michigan, Carlisle and Minnesota, had passing attacks in place before Rockne arrived at Notre Dame.

Most of the European economists who wrote between 1500 and 1750 are today generally considered mercantilists ; this term was initially used solely by critics, such as Mirabeau and Smith, but was quickly adopted by historians.

Most historians believe that it was only a matter of recognition of Otto's royal authority.

Most historians believe this Midas is the same person as the Mita, called king of the Mushki in Assyrian texts, who warred with Assyria and its Anatolian provinces during the same period.

Most historians now reject Murray's theory, as she based it partially upon the similarities of the accounts given by those accused of witchcraft ; such similarity is now thought to actually derive from there having been a standard set of questions laid out in the witch-hunting manuals used by interrogators.

Most professional historians ( defined as paying members of organizations devoted to the propagation of history in higher education, like the American Historical Association ) now refer to the historical periods commonly known as the Renaissance and the Reformation as " the Early Modern Period ".

Most historians believe that the purges significantly impaired the combat capabilities of the Red Army.

Most Muslim historians claim that Saladin's uncle mediated a peace agreement between him and Sinan.

Most historians credit Shaka with initial development of the famous " bull horn " formation.

Most contemporary historians of science now reject the conflict thesis in its original form, arguing instead that it has been superseded by subsequent historical research indicating a more nuanced understanding:

Most historians say that the League was discredited by its failure to make these judgements effective.

Most historians treat it as a singular event with few long-term consequences, but Pugh says it accelerated the movement of working-class voters to the Labour Party, which led to future gains.

Most modern historians accept the claim of the Muslim sources that after the revolt, the Jewish tribes became clients of the Aus and the Khazraj.

Most pastors and laymen, even though they believe it to be important, assume that the ecumenical movement lies outside the province of their parishes.

Most models for reconstruction assume that the tip is a spherical object, and utilise empirical corrections to stereographic projection to convert detector positions back to a 2D surface embedded in R < sup > 3 </ sup >.

Most games use a standardized and unchanging board ( chess, Go, and backgammon each have such a board ), but many games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even while the game is played.

Most commentators assume that this indicates that Jude accepts the antediluvian patriarch Enoch as the author of the Book of Enoch which contains the same quotation.

Most commentators assume that this referred to their " slippery " effect on meter in classical Greek verse when they occur as the second member of a consonant cluster.

Most travelers assume that this practice is strictly a matter of security.

Most generative theories ( although not all of them ) assume that syntax is based upon the constituent structure of sentences.

Most players assume the likelihood increases proportionate to the payout.

Most assume that the share of traditionalists has dwindled.

Most explanations of balanced lines assume symmetrical ( antiphase ) signals but this is an unfortunate confusion-signal symmetry and balanced lines are quite independent of each other.

Most art historians assume that it has the ethnic meaning of " Greek-speaking slave " or " Greek-speaking free laborer ," in fact!

Most files with. iff extension are in fact ILBM files, wrongly named so because they are the most common IFF files and most assume that they are the only type of IFF files ( on many systems that generate IFF files, file extensions are not important ).

Most people assume the name refers to a mountain, but the word is an archaic Spanish translation of that era, there were no mountains in the valley.

* Most of the situational / contingency and functional theories assume that leaders can change their behavior to meet differing circumstances or widen their behavioral range at will, when in practice many find it hard to do so because of unconscious beliefs, fears or ingrained habits.

Most mammals and primates approach copulation from the rear instead of the common frontal position that humans often assume, so the clitoral stimulation is directly created by glans contact with the scrotum at the base of the penis and the different contractions of its corrugated dartos muscles.

* Most definitions assume that a Calabi – Yau manifold has a Riemannian metric, but some treat them as complex manifolds without a metric.

* Most definitions assume the manifold is non-singular, but some allow mild singularities.

Most ARGs do not have any fixed rules — players discover the rules and the boundaries of the game through trial and error — and do not require players to assume fictional identities or roleplay beyond feigning belief in the reality of the characters they interact with ( even if games where players play ' themselves ' are a long standing variant on the genre ).< ref >

Most Colonial historians assume that Kobol is the homeworld of all humanity, and that the Thirteen Tribes fled that world, with twelve founding the Twelve Colonies and the thirteenth heading to Earth.

Most scholars generally assume a date of birth between 6 and 4 BC.

Most epistemological theories involve a closure principle and many sceptical arguments assume a closure principle, arguing for instance that if you cannot know you are not a brain in a vat, then you cannot know that you have hands.

Most scholars assume the statue was commissioned by Cosimo de ' Medici, but the date of its creation is unknown and widely disputed ; suggested dates vary from the 1420s to the 1460s ( Donatello died in 1466 ), with the majority opinion recently falling in the 1440s, when the new Medici Palace designed by Michelozzo was under construction.

And We do hereby authorize and empower Our said Most Dear Niece henceforth at all times to assume and use and to be called and named by the Style, Title and Appellation of " Her Royal Highness " accordingly.

Most scholars assume a date of birth between 6 and 4 BC.