Born in Palermo, Sicily, Sophia moved to New York after fleeing an arranged marriage to Guido Spirelli.

Taking the streetcar back to Kaiser's Fountain, I walked ahead, then left down the street opposite St. Sophia and just beyond the corner came to a small, one-story building with a red-tile roof, which is the entrance to the Sunken Palace.

He then took refuge in the church of Hagia Sophia and from there appealed to the populace.

Isidore of Miletus was a renowned scientist and mathematician before Emperor Justinian I hired him, “ Isidorus taught stereometry and physics at the universities, first of Alexandria then of Constantinople, and wrote a commentary on an older treatise on vaulting .” Emperor Justinian I appointed his architects to rebuild the Hagia Sophia following his victory over protesters within the capital city of his Roman Empire, Constantinople.

Both Cardiff Cricket Club and Glamorgan then moved to a new ground at Sophia Gardens on the opposite bank of the River Taff to the Arms Park, following work on the creation of a national rugby stadium, later named the National Stadium.

By the terms of the English Act of Settlement 1701, George's mother, Sophia, was designated as the heir to the English throne if the then reigning monarch ( William III ) and his sister-in-law, Princess Anne of Denmark ( later Queen Anne ) died without surviving issue.

In 858, Bardas found himself opposed by the then Patriarch Ignatios, who refused to admit him into Hagia Sophia, since it was believed that he was having an affair with his widowed daughter-in-law, Eudoxia Ingerina.

Sophia then gets a telepathic message from Nur-Ab-Sal, instructing them to find the Lost Dialogue of Plato, the Hermocrates, a book that will guide them to the city.

Her older sister, Hedvig Sophia, was then the heir to the throne.

He visited France, while in Paris he spent several days at the Musée du Louvre ; Italy, in Rome he sketched, antiquities sculptures and paintings at the Vatican Museums and other galleries, then on to Naples and Pompeii, Bari then to Corfu ; while in Italy Barry had met Charles Lock Eastlake, an architect Mr Kinnaird and a Mr Johnson ( later a professor at Haileybury and Imperial Service College ) with these gentlemen he visited Greece, where their itinerary covered Athens which they left on 25 June 1818, Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Aegina, then the Cyclades, including Delos to Smyrna and Turkey where Barry greatly admired the magnificence of Hagia Sophia, from Constantinople he visited the Troad, Assos, Pergamon and back to Smyrna.

Ernest Augustus's wife, Sophia of the Palatinate, was declared heiress of the throne of Great Britain ( then England and Scotland ) by the Act of Settlement of 1701, which decreed Roman Catholics could not accede to the throne.

* Squire Western ( Hunter / wealthy squire who owns neighbouring estate to Squire Allworthy, a simpleton who wants to marry his daughter Sophia to Squire Allworthy ’ s heir, first Blifil and then Jones, against her will, with quite violent, if not physically, means )

) Miss Western then speaks to Sophia to reveal her amour, and is enraged when she finds out it is not Blifil but Tom.

Tom gets into an argument with Ensign Northerton, who then proceeds to abuse the good name of Sophia after Tom has proposed a toast to her.

Sophia then repairs to the house of Lady Bellaston who promises she will do everything in her power to protect her.

He and Partridge then procure horses from the inn and also recognise the same boy who guided Sophia to the last inn.

Jones and Partridge then travel post in pursuit of Sophia, ending up at St Albans where they just miss Sophia.

Bellaston and Fellamar then hatch a plan for the latter to ravish Sophia the next evening whilst the servants are out of the house and whilst Lady Bellaston is in an apartment distant from the scene.

She then meets Mrs Western ( they are cousins ), and the former tells the latter about Lord Fellamar's attachment to Sophia.

After a brief military career he was appointed Kammarherre to Sophia Magdalena, queen consort of Gustav III of Sweden and subsequently became intimately connected with the king's brother, Charles, then duke of Södermanland.

He then rebuilt Constantinople and the Hagia Sophia, and was free to establish his rule.

Francis and Maria Sophia, now royals without a crown, led a wandering life from then on, living in Austria, France, and Bavaria.

Nixon appeared on screen first telling her opinion to the nuns about Maria and then singing for herself as Sister Sophia in the 1965 film The Sound of Music.

The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

The Senate met in St Sophia and offered the crown to Theodore Lascaris, who had married into the Angelid family, but it was too late.

In 1472, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor, Sophia Palaiologina, married Ivan III, grand prince of Moscow, who began championing the idea of Russia being the successor to the Byzantine Empire.

On 14 February 1479 at Frankfurt ( Oder ) he was married to Sophia of Poland ( 6 April 1464-5 October 1512 ), daughter of King Casimir IV of Poland by his wife Elisabeth of Habsburg, and sister of King Sigismund I of Poland.

Frederick William married his first cousin Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, George II's younger sister ( daughter of his uncle, King George I of Great Britain and Sophia Dorothea of Celle ) on 28 November 1706.

But when, in early 1915, the Allies asked for Greek help in the Dardanelles campaign, offering Cyprus in exchange, their diverging views became apparent: Constantine had been educated in Germany, was married to Sophia of Prussia, sister of Kaiser Wilhelm, and was convinced of the Central Powers ' victory.

Count Frederick III of Zollern was a loyal retainer of the Holy Roman Emperors Frederick Barbarossa and Henry VI, and around 1185 he married Sophia of Raabs, the daughter of Conrad II, Burgrave of Nuremberg.

He was succeeded by Justin II, who was the son of his sister Vigilantia, and married to Sophia, the niece of Empress Theodora.

# Elisabeth Sophia of Brandenburg ( July 13, 1589 – December 24, 1629 ), married:

Ivan III married Sophia Palaiologina, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI, and made the Byzantine double-headed eagle his own, and eventually Russian, coat-of-arms.

In 1962, Mussolini married Anna Maria Villani Scicolone, the sister of actress Sophia Loren.

Sophia married Ernest Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1658.

The act restricts the British throne to the " Protestant heirs " of Sophia of Hanover who have never been Roman Catholic and who have never married a Roman Catholic.

Upon Sophia's death, her eldest son Elector George Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1660 – 1727 ) became heir presumptive in her place, and weeks later, succeeded Queen Anne as George I. Sophia's daughter Sophia Charlotte of Hanover ( 1668 – 1705 ) married Frederick I of Prussia, from whom the later Prussian Kings descend.

They married in 1774, lived at the northeast corner of 3rd and Pine Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and had four children, Sarah, Thomas, Sophia, and Maria.

In 1997 Enfield married Lucy Lyster and they have one son, Archie Edward ( born 1997 ) and two daughters, Poppy Sophia ( born 1999 ) and Nell Florence ( born 2003 ).

Subsequently, Leopold V's younger son, Leopold VI, also married a Byzantine princess ( Theodora Angelina ), as did his youngest son ( by Theodora ), Frederick II, who married Sophia Laskarina.

In 1417, Władysław married Elisabeth of Pilica, who died in 1420 without bearing him a child, and two years later, Sophia of Halshany, who bore him two surviving sons.

About 1785 Maskelyne married Sophia Rose of Cotterstock, Northamptonshire.

On 8 September 1748 he married Sophia Trevanion, daughter of John Trevanion of Caerhays in Cornwall, by whom he had two sons and seven daughters, three of whom died in infancy.

George's surviving uncle, George William of Celle, had married his mistress in order to legitimise his only daughter, Sophia Dorothea of Celle, but looked unlikely to have any further children.