The city remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, Troadensis ; the seat is vacant following the resignation of the last bishop in 1971.

* Edward Elric, the titular character of the manga and anime Fullmetal Alchemist got his last name from Elric of Melniboné, although the writer Hiromu Arakawa has stated that she never actually read any of the books in the Elric Saga.

Upon completing the repairs, he knows that he will soon die of radiation poisoning, and asks that they record his last song ; he dies just moments after speaking the final, titular verse.

He was both the first titular president and the last monarch of France.

The seat has stood vacant since the death of the last titular bishop in 2000.

Nicaea remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, Nicaenus ; the seat has been vacant since the death of its last bishop in 1976.

That program didn ’ t last long, but Webb had received high marks for his role as the titular private investigator, and NBC agreed to a limited run for Dragnet.

In its early history it shared the fortunes of Byzantium, was taken by the satrap Otanes, vacillated long between the Lacedaemonian and the Athenian interestsThe last appointment to this Latin titular see dates to 1967.

Its last occupant as also that of the Syrian Catholic titular see dates to the 1950s.

The rest was part of the County of Tyrol and County of Görz, which controlled the Puster Valley: in 1363 its last titular, Margarete, Countess of Tyrol ceded it to the House of Habsburg.

There has been some actual debate as to whether Beatrice should be counted as a monarch or not, and there is, in the last decades, a historiographical current of Spanish and Portuguese authors defending that she was titular Queen of Portugal between 22 October and the middle of December 1383.

Unusually for episodic radio drama, several episodes were sequels of earlier broadcasts, or at least recycled the same ideas: A character and setting from the very first episode " Nothing Behind the Door " ( 8 June 1947 ) are referenced in one of the last episodes, " The Other Side of the Stars "; in " The Man Who Knew Everything " ( 6 March 1949 ) the titular character seems to die at the episode's end, only to return in " The Venetian Blind Man " ( 3 April 1949 ).

Mopsuestia remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, the seat has been vacant since the death of the last bishop in 1963.

Samosata remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, Samosatensis ; the seat is currently vacant following the death of the last bishop in 1967.

The last of the titular Serbian despots in Syrmia, Stevan Berislav, moved in 1522 to Slavonia, since Kupinik was seized by the Ottoman forces.

In the exhibition celebrating the Beano's seventieth birthday, it was revealed that he was originally to be called Oswald the Ostrich, but a last minute change by then Beano Editor George Mooney changed it to the now titular Big Eggo.

That Fingall title became extinct upon the death of the 12th and last Earl in 1984, along with a peerage barony of the same name, not to be confused with the titular prescriptive barony of Fingal previously mentioned.

The last titular grand principalities vanished in 1917 and 1918, the territories being united into other monarchies or becoming republics.

George Smiley is called out from retirement for the last time to investigate the death of one of his old agents, a former Soviet General, titular head of an Estonian

Henry II of Jerusalem and Henry II of Cyprus, born Henri de Lusignan ( June 1270 – 31 March 1324 ) was the last ruling and first titular King of Jerusalem ( after the fall of Acre on 28 May 1291, this title became titular ) and also ruled as King of Cyprus as Henry II.

He became in 1290 count of Anjou and of Maine by his marriage with Margaret, eldest daughter of Charles II, titular king of Sicily ; by a second marriage, contracted with the heiress of Baldwin II de Courtenay, last Latin emperor of Constantinople, he also had pretensions on this throne.

Charles dreamed at the same time of the imperial crown and married in 1301 Catherine de Courtenay, titular empress, granddaughter and heiress of the last Latin emperor of Constantinople, Baldwin II de Courtenay.

Despite the name ' Peter II ', Corral does not claim to be ' Petrus Romanus ', the last Pope, according to the controversial Prophecy of the Popes attributed to St. Malachy: he does not claim to be the Bishop ( titular or otherwise ) of Rome, and has no personal ties to that see.

Among the Turkmen leaders the Ottomans emerged as great power under Osman and his son Orhan I. Smyrna was conquered in 1330 AD, and the last Byzantine possession, Philadélphia ( modern Alaşehir ), fell in 1390 AD.

* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.

* 902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army.

Henry's allegiance was to be the last example of Byzantine political control on peninsular Italy.

He was the last Byzantine Emperor to reign in Constantinople before the establishment of the Latin Empire, which controlled the city for the next 57 years, until it was recovered by the Nicaean Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.

* 1453 – The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.

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.

The last true Roman Emperor in the West was unseated in 476, by which time it had been completely overrun by Germanic nations ; however, the Eastern half, known as the Byzantine Empire, lasted much longer, persevering in one form or another until 1453.

The last great Byzantine Physician was John Actuarius, who lived in the early 14th century in Constantinople.

After his defeat of Ratchis, the last Lombard to rule as king was Desiderius, duke of Tuscany, who managed to take Ravenna definitively, ending the Byzantine presence in northern Italy.

Osman himself had gained some advantages over his Karamanli rival ; but the weak and wealthy possessions of the Byzantine Emperor in northwest Asia Minor were more tempting marks for his ambition than the Karamanoglu plains, and it was over the cities and armies of the ailing Byzantine Empire that the triumphs of the last 26 years of Osman ’ s life were achieved.

However, as the Byzantine civil war of 1341 – 1347 dissipated the last resources of the Byzantine Empire, the auxiliary armies of the Emirs of Turkish principalities were frequently called over and employed in Europe.

During Orhan's reign as the Ottoman emir, the Byzantine Empire was in its last stages of its decline.

* 404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy who ends in a miscarriage.

Selected to end a schism between Antipope Paschal and Antipope Theodore, Sergius I ended the last disputed sede vacante of the Byzantine Papacy.

Sergius I was consecrated on 15 December 687, ending the last disputed sede vacante of the Byzantine Papacy.

A Greek from Santa Severina, Calabria, he was the last pope of the Byzantine Papacy.

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.

* 1453: The Fall of Constantinople marks the end of the Byzantine Empire and the death of the last Roman Emperor Constantine XI and the beginning of the Growth of the Ottoman Empire.

* Constantine XI, The last Byzantine Emperor and Roman Emperor. He lived from 1404 – 1453.