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 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 companies had their software on the books for 0 dollars, unable to claim it as an asset ( this is similar to financing of popular music in those days ).

Most of Meher Baba's followers accept his claim of avatarhood and he is said to be " revered by millions around the world as the Avatar of the age and a God realized being.

Most Oxfordian researchers, including Charlton Ogburn, claim that Hamlet is the play most easily seen as portraying Oxford's life story.

Most claim that men and women have complementary, yet different roles in religious life, resulting in different religious obligations.

Most British commentators claim it is false the riots were due to a breakdown of multiculturalism alone and instead is more likely to have been caused by other factors such as disillusioned youth, high unemployment and a growing attraction to ' gangsta ' culture by a sizeable proportion of the youth, across all ethnicities, of The United Kingdom.

Most Irish Nationalists and Irish Republicans claim all of Northern Ireland and are not particularly interested in new borders.

Most influential is his claim in De Interpretatione ( 16a3 ) that thoughts are " likenessess " ( homoiosis ) of things.

Most businesses can claim back the GST, HST and QST they pay, and so effectively it is the final consumer who pays the tax.

Most Mussorgsky biographers claim that the directorate of the Imperial Theatres also rejected the revised version of Boris Godunov, even providing a date: 6 May 1872 ( Calvocoressi ), or 29 October 1872 ( Lloyd-Jones ).

Most attorneys who practice collaborative divorce claim that it can be more cost-effective than other divorce methods, e. g., going to court.

Most of the people who claim to have introduced the cookie to the United States are Japanese, so the theory is that these bakers were modifying a cookie design which they were aware of from their days in Japan.

Most authors claim that the Cypriot city kingdoms, first described in written sources in the 8th century BC were already founded in the 11th century BC.

Most artists claim that the French language hip hop style was influenced by Renaud songs.

Most manufacturers claim that overcharging is safe at very low currents, below 0. 1 C ( where C is the current equivalent to the capacity of the battery divided by one hour ).

Most biographies, including those written by her daughters, repeat this claim.

Most Trotskyists defend the economic achievements of the planned economy in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s, despite the " misleadership " of the soviet bureaucracy, and what they claim to be the loss of democracy.

Most threatening to Octavian ( whose claim to power was based on his status as Julius Caesar's grandnephew and adopted son ), Antony declared Caesarion to be Caesar's true son and heir.

Most disturbing of all, however, was the revelation that Grynszpan would claim that he had shot vom Rath because he had had homosexual relations with him.

Most of the poems in the collection are quite late ( around 10th to 12th century ), though some claim Taliesin as author while others are attributed internally to other poets.

Most now claim that, if this incident happened at all, it occurred later, and the object of Gluck's journeying was not Vienna but Prague, and connected to his studies at the University of Prague, where according to early biographies he began studying logic and mathematics in 1731.

Most campaigns for social change — notably those seeking suffrage, improved working conditions, civil rights, abortion rights or an end to abortion, an end to gentrification, and environmental protection — claim to employ at least some types of violent or nonviolent direct action.

Most Hungarian scholars claim that they were two different Sarmatian groups, and that the Jazones are relatives of the Alans and the Ossetians.