Just before coming to the mosque entrance I crossed the street, entered the Hippodrome, and walked ahead to the Obelisk of Theodosius, originally erected in Heliopolis in Egypt about 1,600 B.C. by Thutmose, who also built those now in New York, London and Rome at the Lateran.

See also note 43 at p. 163, with references to Palanque ( 1933 ), Gaudemet ( 1972 ), Matthews ( 1975 ) and King ( 1961 )</ ref > Under Ambrose's influence, Theodosius issued the 391 " Theodosian decrees ," which with increasing intensity outlawed Pagan practises, and the Altar of Victory was removed by Gratian.

Soon after acquiring the undisputed possession of the Roman empire, Theodosius died at Milan in 395, and two years later ( April 4, 397 ) Ambrose also died.

After adoption of Christianity as the only permissible Roman state religion under Theodosius I, Christian art began to change not only in quality and sophistication, but also in nature.

This act of contrition, partly in emulation of Theodosius I, had the effect of greatly reducing his prestige as a Frankish ruler, for he also recited a list of minor offences about which no secular ruler of the time would have taken any notice.

Theodosius I (; 11 January 347 – 17 January 395 ), also known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379 to 395.

The council sent a letter to Theodosius indicating that the condemnation of Nestorius had been agreed upon not only by the bishops of the East meeting in Ephesus but also of the bishops of the West who had convened at a synod in Rome convened by Celestine.

Olybrius also restored at his expenses the nearby church of Saint Euphemia, a famous church, which had been chosen by Pulcheria, sister of Theodosius II, for the Council of Chalcedon in 451: this choice was a sign of the bond between Olybrius, a Roman senator, with the imperial House of Theodosius.

* 1937 — In Genetics and the Origin of Species, Theodosius Dobzhansky applies the chromosome theory and population genetics to natural populations in the first mature work of neo-Darwinism, also called the modern synthesis, a term coined by Julian Huxley.

It was also through his mother's side of the family that he was the nephew of Honorius and first cousin to Theodosius II ( the son of Honorius ' brother Arcadius ), who was eastern emperor for most of Valentianian's life.

Theodosius also betrothed him to his own daughter Licinia Eudoxia ( whom Valentinian would eventually marry in 437 when he came of age ).

Evidence from coin hoards and stones which covered them and those also blocking the well suggest a fairly abrupt end around 388, perhaps due to events linked to anti-Pagan edicts of Theodosius I.

" His long time childhood friend Paulinus also helped Theodosius in his search.

His sources are not given but the Cambro-Briton in 1822 also recorded that Maximus, the last Roman Emperor of Britain, a man who for a time divided the Roman Empire with Theodosius I, on withdrawing Roman legions from Britain granted civic status and Celtic names to a number of pacified Romano British settlements, including Southampton, Chichester, Old Sarum near Salisbury, Carmarthen ( Caerfyrddin ) and Haverfordwest ( Caer Alun ).

Theodosius also promoted his eight-year-old son Honorius to the rank of " Augustus " of the West in January 393.

Apostasy, for example, is a violation of orthodoxy that takes the form of abandonment of the faith, a concept largely unknown before the adoption of Christianity as the state religion of Rome on February 27, 380 by Theodosius I ( see also First seven Ecumenical Councils and State church of the Roman Empire ).

Emperor Theodosius II convened the Second Council of Ephesus, and in remembrance of Cyril's role during the council of 431, the emperor, under strong influence of the eunuch Chrysaphius, a senior advisor and a close friend of Eutyches, asked Dioscorus, also a friend of Eutyches, to preside over the meetings.

Pulcheria also took on the role of providing all the training necessary for Theodosius to become a successful emperor, once he came of age.

By no means must he yield to loud laughter ..." Not only did Pulcheria train her brother on the duties and customs of becoming an Emperor, but she also made sure Theodosius was trained to be a pious Christian leader.

Pulcheria and Theodosius also ordered that a group of Jews be killed after strife amongst Christians emerged in Palestine.

The exact dates of their alleged sleep are also not given in the Qur ' an ; some allege that they entered the cave at the time of Decius ( 250 AD ) and they woke up at the time of Theodosius I ( 378 – 395 ) or Theodosius II ( 408 – 450 ), but neither of these dates can be reconciled with the Qur ' an's account of sleeping 300 or 309 years.

Theodosius I founded the Church of John the Baptist to house the skull of the saint ( today preserved at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey ), put up a memorial pillar to himself in the Forum of Taurus, and turned the ruined temple of Aphrodite into a coach house for the Praetorian Prefect ; Arcadius built a new forum named after himself on the Mese, near the walls of Constantine.

* 425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.

* February 27 – The University of Constantinople is founded by emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.

One of the hospitals was founded by the famous Capuchin philanthropist, Theodosius Florentini ( 1808 – 1865 ), who was for a long time the Romanist cure of Coire, and whose remains were in 1906 transferred from the cathedral here to Ingenbohl ( near Schwyz ), his chief foundation.

The original school was founded in 425 by Emperor Theodosius II with 31 chairs for law, philosophy, medicine, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, rhetoric and other subjects, 15 to Latin and 16 to Greek.

The origin of the monasteries is explained in a mediaeval hagiography written by Simeon Metaphrastes, in Vita Sancti Theodosii Coenobiarchae in which he wrote that Saint Theodosius founded on the shore of the Dead Sea a monastery with four churches, in each being spoken a different language, among which Bessan was found.

The monastery was founded in 386 AD during the reign of the Emperor Theodosius I ( 375-395 ), Legend has it that two priests undertook its creation after discovering a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary in a cave on the mountain.

The University of Constantinople, sometimes known as the University of the palace hall of Magnaura ( Πανδιδακτήριον της Μαγναύρας ), was founded in 425 AD in the Eastern Roman Empire ( Byzantine Empire ) under the name of Pandidakterion ( Πανδιδακτήριον ) by the emperor Theodosius II.

The original school was founded in 425 by Emperor Theodosius II with 31 chairs for law, philosophy, medicine, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, rhetoric and other subjects, 15 to Latin and 16 to Greek.

Human and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. review of book

In 1951, he did postdoctoral studies as a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Davis and, in 1952, at Columbia University, where he studied with the famous geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky.

He attended Columbia University and studied under George Gaylord Simpson and Theodosius Dobzhansky.

The earliest known representation of angels with wings is on what is called the Prince's Sarcophagus, discovered at Sarigüzel, near Istanbul, in the 1930s, and attributed to the time of Theodosius I ( 379-395 ).

* Battle of the Save: Emperor Theodosius I defeats Magnus Maximus near Emona ( modern Slovenia ).

Theodosius did not readily accept this choice and according to the chronicler Theophanes the Confessor even attempted to hide in the forests near Adramyttium.

After reaching manhood, he passed through the tempestuous period between the death of Theodosius I ( 395 ), and the fall of the usurper Priscus Attalus near the date when his poem was written.

The House of Partenius is located near the southern part of the Palace of Theodosius, and is connected to it by a wall making it into an L-shaped building standing for Latin.

A teacher of rhetoric, Sophronius became an ascetic in Egypt about 580 and then entered the monastery of St. Theodosius near Bethlehem.

The Bayezid II Mosque () is an Ottoman imperial mosque located in the Beyazıt Square area of Istanbul, Turkey, near the ruins of the Forum of Theodosius of ancient Constantinople.

Bartow was born near Savannah in Chatham County, Georgia, to Dr. Theodosius Bartow and Frances Lloyd ( Stebbins ) Bartow.

Theodosius ' cross near present day Vipava, Slovenia ; monument on the place, where, according to legend, Theodosius made his prayers before the battle.

With defeat getting near, Theodosius and his armies retreated towards the protection of the Justinian Alps where Theodosius prayed to God asking him for help against his enemies.