* Cyrus of Panopolis, 5th-century Byzantine writer and official

The Byzantine Emperors completed the transition from the idea of the Emperor as a semi-republican official to the Emperor as an absolute monarch.

Greek was a widely spoken lingua franca in the Mediterranean world and beyond during classical antiquity, and would eventually become the official parlance of the Byzantine Empire.

Much of the written Greek that was used as the official language of the Byzantine Empire was an eclectic middle-ground variety based on the tradition of written Koine.

Proclus was born February 8, 412 AD ( his birth date is deduced from a horoscope cast by a disciple, Marinus ) in Constantinople to a family of high social status in Lycia ( his father Patricius was a high legal official, very important in the Byzantine Empire's court system ) and raised in Xanthus.

In the most common usage of the term, some civil rulers are leaders of the dominant religion ( e. g., the Byzantine emperor as patron of the head of the official Church ); the government claims to rule on behalf of God or a higher power, as specified by the local religion, and divine approval of government institutions and laws.

* Michael Psellos, Byzantine writer, philosopher, official, and historian

* 893: Council of Preslav-Vladimir-Rasate is dethroned and succeeded as Prince of Bulgaria by Simeon I ; the capital is moved from Pliska to Preslav ; the Byzantine clergy is expelled and replaced by Bulgarian ; Old Bulgarian becomes the official language of the country.

* 6 October – Saint Nicetas the Patrician, Byzantine official and iconophile monk ( b. 761 / 2 )

He had visited the Byzantine court as an official ambassador and probably knew more about Byzantine affairs than any other Latin chronicler.

* Council of Preslav: The Byzantine clergy is expelled from Bulgaria, and the Greek language is replaced with Old Bulgarian ( also known as Old Church Slavonic ) as an official language.

The cataphracts deployed by the Byzantine Empire ( most noticeably after the 7th century, when Late Latin ceased to be the official language of the empire ) were exclusively referred to as Kataphraktoi, due to the Byzantine Empire's strong Greek influence, as opposed to the Romanized term Cataphractos, which subsequently fell out of use.

His actual and official name was Leo ( Λέων, Leōn ), but he is known by the name used for him in Byzantine chronicles.

Villehardouin's account is generally read alongside that of Robert of Clari, a French knight of low station, Niketas Choniates, a high-ranking Byzantine official and historian who gives an eyewitness account, and Gunther of Pairis, a Cistercian monk who tells the story from the perspective of Abbot Martin who accompanied the Crusaders.

In 629 CE Emperor Heraclius, having changed the official language to Greek nine years earlier, adopted the title of basileus, previously used by Alexander the Great as a translations for emperor and it is thereafter used interchangeably ( and often in conjunction with ) autokrator in the Byzantine Empire.

The style remained the official one for all his successors down to the end of the Russian Empire in 1917, though the Russian rulers continued to be colloquially known as tsar ( a word derived from " Caesar "), which they had begun to use c. 1480 to likewise assert their contention to be the heirs to the Byzantine state ( see: Third Rome.

Porphyry was extensively used in Byzantine imperial monuments, for example in Hagia Sophia and in the " Porphyra ", the official delivery room for use of pregnant Empresses in the Great Palace of Constantinople.

Though the Byzantine Empire was Roman in origin and was called " Eastern Roman Empire " by its inhabitants in antiquity, it became Hellenistic with time to the point where Greek replaced Latin as the official language in AD 610, owing to its location ( in the Greek-speaking realm and sphere of influence ) and the fact that, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it became the only European remnant of the Roman Empire.

However, these scholars caution that a rise in ethnic consciousness did not have an impact on the official imperial ideology. In the official ideology, the traditional Byzantine view of Byzantium as the successor of Rome was not overturned, as the usage of the word Rhomaioi for subjects of the Nicene emperors demonstrates.

Walter hired the Catalan Company, a group of mercenaries founded by Roger de Flor, to fight against the Byzantine successor states of Epirus and Nicaea, but when he tried to cheat and kill them in 1311, they slew him at the Battle of Halmyros and took over the Duchy, making Catalan the official language and replacing the French and Byzantine-derived laws of the Principality of Achaea with the laws of Catalonia.

During the Council of Preslav which followed that event, the Byzantine clergy was replaced with Bulgarian and the Greek language was replaced with Old Church Slavonic as an official language of the Church and the state.

The White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position as interrogator of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service.

This was not a faction but an official organism within the party and expressed the official position of the party on ethical and religious matters.

Nehemiah is a cup-bearer to king Artaxerxes II of Persia-an important official position.

The official army position, backed by the British Home Secretary the next day in the House of Commons, was that the paratroopers had reacted to gun and nail bomb attacks from suspected IRA members.

Perhaps the tragedy of his life was that he was never awarded the high official position which he desired, from which he wished to demonstrate the general well-being that would ensue if humane persons ruled and administered the state.

According to Bruce L. Olsen, director of public affairs for the church, " The logo re-emphasizes the official name of the church and the central position of the Savior in its theology.

Cornell's alma mater or official school song makes reference to its position " Far Above Cayuga's Waters ", while that of Ithaca College references " Cayuga ’ s shore ".

In response to concerns about the meaning of CCM, bishops in the ELCA drafted Tucson Resolution, which presented the official ELCA position.

In May 1955 McCarthy threatened to issue subpoenas to White House personnel ; Eisenhower was furious, and issued an order as follows: " It is essential to efficient and effective administration that employees of the Executive Branch be in a position to be completely candid in advising with each other on official matters ... it is not in the public interest that any of their conversations or communications, or any documents or reproductions, concerning such advice be disclosed.

The current official position of the party is that the " Republic of China ( Taiwan )" is an independent and sovereign country whose territory consists of Taiwan and its surrounding smaller islands and whose sovereignty derives only from the ROC citizens living in Taiwan ( similar philosophy of self-determination ), based on the " Resolution on Taiwan's Future " in 1999.

The official federal government of the United States | U. S. government position on extraterrestrial life, and the three major efforts in the search for it: 1.

The President of Congress was a mostly ceremonial position with no real authority, but the office did require him to handle a good deal of correspondence and sign official documents.

The position of the First Lady is not an elected one, carries no official duties, and receives no salary.

Titorelli turns out to be an official painter of portraits for the court – an inherited position, and has a deep understanding of the process.

Many Muslim countries ( such as Egypt and Tunisia ) have an official mufti position ; a distinguished expert in the sharia is appointed to this position by the civil authorities of the country.

Thanks to Lawrence's connection to the powerful Fairfax family, at age 17 in 1749, Washington was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, a well-paid position which enabled him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley, the first of his many land acquisitions in western Virginia.

On May 2, 1783, the Commander in Chief submitted his Sentiments on a Peace Establishment to the Committee, essentially providing an official Continental Army position.

According to Lobo, the organisation was expected to adopt a co-ordinated position on the issue, but El Salvador, the nation presiding over the summit, refused to include the matter on the official agenda, insisting that discussion should retain a regional focus.

A head of state is an official who holds the highest position in a governance system of the state and has the vested powers to act as the chief public representative of a country.

Haganah and Palmah first collaborated with the British against them, particularly during the Hunting Season, before actively joining them in the Jewish Resistance Movement, then finally choosing an official neutral position after 1946 while the Irgun and the Lehi went on their attacks against the British.

Although the official position of the British government on " The Roman Question " was neutrality and nonintervention, Severn often took diplomatic action that his superiors viewed as exceeding his mandate as Consul.

Under the Articles of Confederation, the United States had no executive branch ; the President of Congress was a mostly ceremonial position within the Confederation Congress, but the office did require Hanson to handle a good deal of correspondence and sign official documents.

Joan's parents owned about 50 acres ( 20 hectares ) of land and her father supplemented his farming work with a minor position as a village official, collecting taxes and heading the local watch.