If you are wondering about the monument of the Hagia Sophia here are some of the facts that you n...
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Synodikon: An inventory in a church or monastery that registered items donated and the commemorat...
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Opsikion: one of the earliest themes to emerge; based in north-west Asia Minor, closest to Consta...
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Egyptian population who spoke the Coptic language; after Egypt’s mid-seventh-century conquest by ...
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Greek fire: Devastating and dreaded Byzantine petroleum-based weapon; it was sticky, was ignited ...
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Normans: people from north-west France, originally of Scandinavian origin; in the eleventh centur...
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Romania: ‘land of the Romans’ (i.e. Byzantines); by the seventh century, a term for the Christian...
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Iconoclasm: Rejection of the honoring of sacred images as a form of idolatry. Condemned as a here...
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Sallarid: 10th.- to 11th.-century Muslim dynasty which ruled in the eastern Caucasus and north-we...
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Psychika: Gifts made to monasteries in exchange for the monks’ commemoration of the donors and/or...
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Nomisma: Lat. solidus, the gold coin introduced by Constantine I which remained the basis for the...
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Caesaropapism: system whereby the monarch exercised unfettered control over the church in his dom...
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Praetorian Prefecture: The largest administrative unit of the empire from the time of Constantine...
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Charistikiarios: A person or institution that was granted administrative responsibilities over a ...
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Exarchate: territorial and administrative unit commanded by an exarch; in modern usage, often the...
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Chalke; the Bronze Gate: main ceremonial entrance into the Great Palace of Constantinople, throug...
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Ducat: Two types of coin from the duchy of Venice: (1) the thirteenthand early fourteenth-century...
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True Cross: wooden cross on which Christ was crucified, or fragments – relics – supposedly from it.
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Ostrogoths: (eastern Goths) groupings of Goths, who adopted Arian Christianity and conquered Ital...
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