An alternate name for Greek fire was " Median fire " (), and the 6th-century historian Procopius, records that crude oil, which was called naphtha ( in Greek νάφθα, naphtha, from Middle Persian نفت ( naft )) by the Persians, was known to the Greeks as " Median oil " ().

Justinian was a prolific builder ; the historian Procopius bears witness to his activities in this area.

After Scupi was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake in 518 AD, Justinian, according to his historian Procopius in " De Aedificiis " ( On the Buildings ), built a new city near his birthplace Tauresium and Bederiana ( believed to be today's villages Taor and Bader ) at the fertile entry point of the River Lepenec into the Vardar, making Skopje the city of Justiniana Prima.

* Procopius, Byzantine historian

* Procopius, Byzantine historian ( approximate date )

* Procopius, Byzantine historian ( approximate date ).

* Procopius of Caesarea, historian

Relying upon the accounts of the historian Procopius, it often has been said that Justinian ruled the Empire in his uncle's name during the reign of Justin, however, there is much evidence to the contrary.

Byzantine historian Procopius stated that two Christian monks eventually uncovered the way of how silk was made.

Most of the historical evidence for Totila consists of chronicles by the Byzantine historian Procopius, who accompanied the Byzantine General Belisarius during the Gothic War.

" Totila " is how he was referred to by the historian Procopius.

" After a successful siege of a resisting city, such as at Perugia, however, Totila could be merciless, as the Byzantine historian Procopius recounts.

On this occasion Totila exhibited a considerable humanity which was not to be expected, as the historian Procopius remarks, from an enemy or a barbarian.

According to the historian Procopius, Majorian, " who surpassed in every virtue all who have ever been emperors of the Romans ", wanted to know personally the military readiness of the Vandals and how the local populations would have reacted to the Roman invasion.

According to the Byzantine historian Procopius, " From the start, Yazdegerd was a sovereign whose nobility of character had won for him the greatest renown.

The 6th-century historian Procopius is the earliest authority for the statement that Helena was a native of Drepanum, in the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor.

Although Gerontius committed suicide in Hispania, and Athaulf the Visigoth later suppressed the revolt of Jovinus, Roman rule never returned to Britain after the death of Constantine III: as the historian Procopius later explained, " from that time onwards it remained under rule of tyrants.

He was the pupil of Procopius of Gaza, who must be distinguished from Procopius of Caesarea, the historian.

In the 6th century, the Byzantine historian Procopius ( d. after 562 ) saw Attila and the Huns as the nation locked out by Alexander, and a little later other Christian writers identified them with the Saracens.

The Byzantine historian Procopius recorded of 536, in his report on the wars with the Vandals, " during this year a most dread portent took place.

In the writings of the historian Procopius, from the first half of the 6th century, Thule is a large island in the north inhabited by twenty-five tribes.

The 6th-century Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea ( Book I. ch.

The first authoritative reference to the Slavs and their mythology in written history was made by the 6th century Byzantine historian Procopius, whose Bellum Gothicum described the beliefs of a South Slavic tribe that crossed the Danube heading south in just two days.

The modest Roman town of Urvinum Mataurense (" the little city on the river Mataurus ") became an important strategic stronghold in the Gothic Wars of the 6th century, captured in 538 from the Ostrogoths by the Byzantine general Belisarius, and frequently mentioned by the historian Procopius.

The ecclesiastical historian Socrates Scholasticus ( b. 380 ) attributes the observance of Easter by the church to the perpetuation of its custom, " just as many other customs have been established ," stating that neither Jesus nor his Apostles enjoined the keeping of this or any other festival.

Radio historian Jim Harmon attributes the show's popularity in The Great Radio Heroes to the fact that it was the only radio show to deal with and appeal to young children.

Military historian John Keegan identifies it as " the most contested spot on the globe " and attributes this to its geographical location.

According to Australian rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, SPK were " at the forefront of the local post-punk, electronic / experimental movement of the late 1970s ... music progressed from discordant, industrial-strength metal noise to sophisticated and restrained dance-rock with strange attributes ".

The Egyptian Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century AD, attributes the loss of the nose to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa ' im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa ' id al-Su ' ada.

Often historians assume, as a general rule, that autochthonous inhabitants survive an invasion as an under-class where they do not retreat to mountain districts, so it is interesting to hear in Deipnosophistae that Philippus of Theangela ( a 4th century BCE historian ) referred to Leleges still surviving as serfs of the " true Carians ", and even later Strabo attributes to the Leleges a distinctive group of deserted forts and tombs in Caria that were still known in his day as " Lelegean forts "; the Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 identified these as ruins that could still be traced ranging from the neighborhood of Theangela and Halicarnassus as far north as Miletus, the southern limit of the " true Carians " of Pherecydes.

Nineteenth century historian John Palfrey wrote of Dudley that he " united rich intellectual attributes with a groveling soul ", forging political connections and relationships in his early years for the purpose of furthering his own advancement.

The French historian Yvon Lacaze has argued against the popular image of Bonnet as a slick and amoral opportunist, and instead attributes Bonnet's views about avoiding another war with Germany to his memories of service in the trenches of World War I.

One Percheron historian attributes this popularity to the breed's " strength, energy, activity, robustness and endurance ".

Railroad historian Richard Palmer attributes it to a slang term for a slow local passenger train or way freight.

In his history of the pre-Nazi Freikorps paramilitary organizations, " Vanguard of Nazism ", historian Robert GL Waite describes some of the emotional effects of World War I on German troops, and refers to a phrase he attributes to Goering: men who could not become " de-brutalized ".

The controversy stems from the work of Chilean historian Oreste Plath who, in his book Folklore lingüístico chileno, attributes the invention of the Pisco Sour to Elliot Stubb, an English steward from a sailing ship named " Sunshine ".

Music historian Robert Stephens attributes the birth of soul music to " What'd I Say " when gospel and blues were successfully joined ; the new genre of music was matured by later musicians such as James Brown and Aretha Franklin.

California historian Lynn Townsend White, Jr wrote that they considered the as-yet undiscovered California " a land of Orient with fantastic attributes ".

The noted military theorist, strategist, and historian Major-General J. F. C. Fuller, considered " accuracy of aim " one of the five recognizable attributes of weaponry, together with range of action, striking power, volume of fire, and portability.

Tradition originating from The History of Gruffydd ap Cynan attributes Gruffydd I as reforming the orders of bards and musicians ; Welsh literature demonstrated " vigor and a sense of commitment " as new ideas reached Wales, even in " the wake of the invaders ", according to historian John Davies.

In his book, Top Pop Singles, 1955-2002, music historian Joel Whitburn attributes " Marshall Tucker " to the owner of the band's rehearsal hall.

The literary historian Gian Biaggio Conte notes that " the number of his fragments that has come down to us does not correspond to the general admiration felt by posterity for this interesting scholar-philosopher-scientist-magician " and attributes this loss to " the vastness and especially the obscurity of the works.

David P. Billington, a civil engineering professor and historian of the field at Princeton University, attributes the output of the Swiss in the 19th and 20th century to the refining effect of the competitions used to select Swiss public-works designs, among other causes.

The historian, Al-Dhahabi said of al-Ash ' ari: " I saw four works of Abu al-Hasan relating to Aqidah theological fundamentals in which he mentioned the principals of the school of thought of the early scholars, the salaf, pertaining to the attributes.

In his book, Soccer in a Football World, North American soccer historian Dave Wangerin attributes the downfall of the Manic organization to the Molson ownership's declaration to attempt to build a Team Canada roster for the 1984 season.

However, by the end of Manuel's reign, the strains of constant warfare on all fronts and the Emperor's various grandiose projects had become evident: the historian Nicetas Choniates attributes the rise of piracy in the latter years of Manuel's reign to the diversion of the funds intended for the maintenance of the fleet for other needs of the imperial treasury.

The Polish historian Krzysztof Buchowski of the University of Białystok attributes his suicide to alienation resulting from the futility of his endeavors, denounced on both sides of the border, as well as to the increasingly hostile stance of the Lithuanian government towards the Polish minority in Lithuania.