Nevertheless, it remained one of the most splendid churches of the Eastern Empire, where the Byzantine Emperors were crowned.

Beneath the dome I saw the spot where the Byzantine Emperors were crowned, a bit of floor protected now by a wooden fence.

* Five Byzantine Emperors:

It was used to describe the unlimited power and authority of the Pharaohs of Egypt, employed in the Byzantine court as a title of nobility, used by the rulers of Byzantine vassal states, and adopted as a title of the Byzantine Emperors.

The first seven councils were called by the Byzantine Emperors and the sixteenth by the future Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund.

** Byzantine Emperors

* January 10 – Basil II becomes Eastern Roman Emperor ( see Byzantine Emperors ).

Mani combines Zoroastrian dualism with Christian theology and his disciples gain wide support for Manichaeism despite opposition from Byzantine and Roman Emperors.

* Caesar ( title ), a title used by Roman and Byzantine Emperors and also at times by the Ottoman Turkish Emperors

In the Byzantine Empire, the still autocratic Emperors passed general legal measures assigning all bishops certain rights and duties in the secular administration of their dioceses, but that was part of a caesaropapist development putting the Eastern Church in the service of the Empire, with its Ecumenical Patriarch almost reduced to the Emperor's minister of religious affairs.

Byzantine Emperors followed the Roman practice and contracted foreigners especially for their personal corps guard called the Varangian Guard.

His character has been the subject of considerable discussion, some regarding him as one of the ablest of the Byzantine Emperors, others as an ordinary and not a particularly significant ruler.

Upon their return, the Eastern bishops found their agreement with the West broadly rejected by the monks, the populace and by civil authorities ( with the notable exception of the Emperors of the East who remained committed to union until the fall of the Byzantine Empire two decades later ).

While the Byzantine Eastern Roman Emperors retained full Roman imperium and made the episcopate subservient, in the feudal West a long rivalry would oppose the claims to supremacy within post-Roman Christianity between sacerdotium ( the ' priesthood ', i. e. the clergy ministering the word and will of God ) in the person of the Pope and the secular imperium of the revived Western Roman Emperor since Charlemagne.

A Golden Bull or chrysobull was a golden ornament representing a seal ( a bulla aurea or " golden seal " in Latin ), attached to a decree issued by Byzantine Emperors and later by monarchs in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Russian Tsars ( a title derived from Caesar ) claimed the Byzantine mantle as the champion of Orthodoxy ; Moscow was described as the " Third Rome " and the Tsars ruled as divinely-appointed Emperors into the 20th century.

Another way to look at this translation is to remember that in the medieval period the Eastern ( Byzantine ) and Western ( Holy Roman ) Emperors often recognized each other and even inter-married.

The title Romanorum Rex (" King of the Romans ") was used occasionally by the Ottonian rulers and especially by King Henry II to emphasize the Roman ( and hence, implicitly, universal ) heritage of their Empire, which was contested by the Byzantine Emperors.

Two deities, Perun and Veles / Volos, are mentioned in the text of the early 10th century peace treaties between pagan rulers of East Slavs and Byzantine Emperors.

In 920, he was asked by the Byzantine Emperors Romanos I and Constantine VII and the Patriarch of Constantinople Nicholas Mystikos to send some legates to Constantinople to confirm the acts of a synod which condemned fourth marriages ( a legacy of the conflict which embroiled Constantine ’ s father Leo VI the Wise ) thereby ending a schism between the two churches.

The work mentions virtually nothing about Duklja apart from that it was settled by Slavs and was ruled by the Byzantine Emperors.

The Nomocanon was completely new compilation of civil and canonical regulations, taken from the Byzantine sources, but completed and reformed by St. Sava to function properly in Serbia.

After the conquest of Italy was completed in 554, Ravenna became the seat of Byzantine government in Italy.

The Irkutsk Regional museum with stamped last names of famous researches of Siberia on its walls ( 1883 ), the building of the first public community, city theater ( 1897 ), Kazan ' cathedral, made in new Byzantine style ( 1893 ), and the Roman Catholic cathedral ( 1895 ) completed an architectural style of the city.

Bilad al-Sham ( Arabic بلاد الشام, the country of Syria ), in English usually referred to as Syria, was a Rashidun, Umayyad and later Abbasid Caliphate province, incorporating former Byzantine territories of the Diocese of the East, organized soon after the Muslim conquest of Syria in the mid-7th century, which was completed at the decisive Battle of Yarmouk.

For the next three years Strzygowski lived in Rome, where he completed a study of Cimabue und Rom ( 1887 ) ( Cimabue and Rome ), which emphasized the Byzantine sources of the Italian painter's work.

In the late 19th century, St Vladimir's Cathedral ( completed 1892 ) was built on a small hill overlooking the site ; designed in Byzantine style, it was intended to commemorate the site of Vladimir's baptism.

In 554, Granada and southernmost Hispania Baetica were taken from the Byzantines ; under the last Arian king, Leovigild, the Suevi kingdom was annexed in 585 and the war of reconquest against the remainder of the Byzantine territories was begun, finally being completed under King Suintila in 624.

She worked to reduce tensions with the Byzantine Empire over the possession of Aleppo, but before negotiations could be completed she died on 5 February 1023 at the age of fifty-two.

Construction of the chapel, overseen by a master builder Schledermann, began in 1919 and was completed in 1924, built in a Byzantine Revival style, with a Roman inspiration.

The church was begun by Bishop Ecclesius in 527, when Ravenna was under the rule of the Ostrogoths and completed by the 27th Bishop of Ravenna, Maximian in 546 during the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna.

There is a transition period from Byzantine to Islamic lamps.

As such, Lorenzetti ’ s art could be seen as a transition between Byzantine and Renaissance styles of art.

In contrast, in Eastern Europe, there was a gradual transition from the Roman Empire into the Byzantine Empire, which didn't decline until much later.

As a complicated period bridging between Roman art and Medieval art and Byzantine art, the Late Antique period saw a transition from the classical idealized realism tradition largely influenced by Ancient Greek art to the more iconic, stylized art of the Middle Ages.

Gregory's autobiography gives valuable information on the transition from Byzantine to Lusignan rule and its impact on the local population and especially education.

The ancient villages of the Dead Cities illustrate the transition from the ancient pagan world of the Roman Empire to Byzantine Christianity.

It is the monastery which according to a religious transition was founded by St. Helena, the mother of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine I, the Great.

A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.

Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

Its great natural strength and situation, not far from the mouth of the Sis pass, and near the great road which debouched from the Cilician Gates, made Anazarbus play a considerable part in the struggles between the Byzantine Empire and the early Muslim invaders.

There also is no mention of Troy, which was not far from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine empire and militarily beyond the reach of the Vikings.

Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate, this extraordinary vase was most likely created in an imperial workshop for a Byzantine emperor.

Additionally, the Lombards would have known of the weakness of Byzantine Italy, which had endured a number of problems after being retaken from the Goths.

Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus (, 1056 – 15 August 1118 — note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.

Alexios used the opportunity of meeting the crusader leaders separately as they arrived and extracting from them oaths of homage and the promise to turn over conquered lands to the Byzantine Empire.

* George Finlay ( 1854 ), History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires from 1057 – 1453, Volume 2, William Blackwood & Sons

Alexios III Angelos () ( c. 1153 – 1211 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 1195 to 1203.

* Anastasius I ( emperor ) ( 430 – 518 ), Roman ( Byzantine ) Emperor from 491 to 518

Andronikos III Palaiologos, Latinized as Andronicus III Palaeologus (; 25 March 1297 – 15 June 1341 ) was Byzantine emperor from 1328 to 1341, after being rival emperor since 1321.

Andronikos II Palaiologos () ( 25 March 1259 – 13 February 1332 ), Latinized as Andronicus II Palaeologus, was Byzantine emperor from 1282 to 1328.

After the failure of the co-emperor Michael IX to stem the Turkish advance in Asia Minor in 1302 and the disastrous Battle of Bapheus, the Byzantine government hired the Catalan Company of Almogavars ( adventurers from Aragon and Catalonia ) led by Roger de Flor to clear Byzantine Asia Minor of the enemy.

Andronikos I Komnenos ( or Andronicus I Comnenus, ; c. 1118 – September 12, 1185 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 1183 to 1185 ).

Others favor the Byzantine text as transmitting the true Word of God from its reception.

Many believe this group of texts comes from the original Book of Acts by looking at the Byzantine text for the whole of the New Testament.

The great majority of Biblical manuscripts support the Byzantine family, from which a single reading for the New Testament is established.

Today, the Byzantine text-type is the subject of renewed interest as the original form of the text from which the Western and Alexandrian text-types were derived.

Arcadius (; ; 377 / 378 – 1 May 408 ) was the Byzantine Emperor from 395 until his death in 408.

Later, however, her daughter-in-law, the Byzantine princess Theophano, turned her husband Otto II against his mother, and she was driven from court in 978 ; she lived partly in Italy, and partly with her brother Conrad, king of Burgundy, by whose mediation she was ultimately reconciled to her son ; in 983 Otto appointed her as his viceroy in Italy.

Saint Sava began the work on the Serbian Nomocanon in 1208 while being at Mount Athos, using The Nomocanon in Fourteen Titles, Synopsis of Stefan the Efesian, Nomocanon of John Scholasticus, Ecumenical Councils ' documents, which he modified with the canonical commentaries of Aristinos and John Zonaras, local church meetings, rules of the Holy Fathers, the law of Moses, translation of Prohiron and the Byzantine emperors ' Novellae ( most were taken from Justinian's Novellae ).