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 species seem to prefer a ready-made hollow such as a deserted mouse nest, a bird house, or the hole made by a woodpecker ; ;

Most children love the animated puppet faces and their flexible bodies, and they prefer to see them as though the puppets were in action, rather than put away in boxes.

Most U. S. conservatives prefer Republicans over Democrats, and most factions favor a strong foreign policy and a strong military.

Most shooters prefer jacketed bullets, especially in rifles and pistols.

Most West African musicians prefer the term ' jali ' to ' griot ', which is the French word.

Most drivers in Kabul prefer owning a Toyota Corolla, one of Afghanistan's most popular cars.

Most email clients offer a user option to prefer plain text over HTML ; this is an example of how local factors may affect how an application chooses which " best " part of the message to display.

Most programmers prefer asynchronous send and synchronous receive.

Most experienced and skillful players greatly prefer feathers, and serious tournaments or leagues are always played using feather shuttlecocks of the highest quality.

Most surgeons prefer simple closure of the perforation with drainage of the peritoneum.

Most Czech sources since the 19th century — encyclopedias, general histories, materials of the University itself — prefer to give 1348 as the year of the founding of the university, rather than 1347 or 1349.

Most healthy leopards prefer wild prey to humans, but injured, sickly, or struggling cats or those with a shortage of regular prey may resort to hunting humans and become habituated to it.

Most people from Zealand still prefer taking the ferry between Puttgarden and Rødby, as it is a much shorter distance, and provides a needed break for those travelling a long distance.

Most legislatures prefer to base liability on either intention or recklessness and, faced with the need to establish recklessness as the default mens rea for guilt, those practising in most legal systems rely heavily on objective tests to establish the minimum requirement of foresight for recklessness.

Most crocus species and hybrids should be planted in a sunny position, in gritty, well-drained soil, although a few prefer shadier sites in moist soil.

Most habitat types are occupied, from tundra to rainforest and deserts, although they are generally more birds of open country and even forest species tend to prefer broken forest and forest edges.

Most species are associated with forests, especially rainforests, but others prefer woodland or savannah-like habitats.

Most men tend to have baritone voices and for this reason the majority of men tend to prefer singing in the bass section of a choir ( however, true basses are even rarer than tenors ).

Most modern audio amplifiers are based on solid state devices ( transistors such as BJTs, FETs and MOSFETs ), but there are still some who prefer tube-based amplifiers, and the valve sound.

Most monorail manufacturers prefer rubber tyres.

Most people in Norrbotten County still refer to the entire county, including the areas in Finnish Lapland, when they say ' Norrbotten ', which is also the name of a smaller province for practical and historical reasons, which do not imply that they would not prefer to use the name Lapland.

Most masters prefer a tow cable long enough to put the dinghy on the back side of the swell to prevent the dinghy from ramming the transom of the yacht.

Most people prefer to engage with programs that are human-like, and this gives chatbot-style techniques a potentially useful role in interactive systems that need to elicit information from users, as long as that information is relatively straightforward and falls into predictable categories.

Most Germans prefer to use the related kohlrabi ( German turnip ) instead.