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The church is in the shape of a Greek cross, its width coinciding with that of the three Byzantine naves .

One of the most serious events of his reign was the beginning of the debasement of Byzantine coins.

But it has been a struggle, largely thanks to the Byzantine nature of the American system.

As Despot of the Morea, Constantine had been one of the few Byzantine generals to meet some success against the Turks.

Nevertheless, the Crusades, to make direct contact with Western Europe was more advanced Byzantine civilization and Islamic civilization.

The Byzantine era extended from the 13th century and went into the 16th century and was characterized by art with religious influence.

Evidently Byzantine Greek borrowed the word specifically as it applied to those faces on coins.

In Byzantine times a simple silver sheath was made to hold a piece of the saint's arm.

Yet, for all his talk, he treats his people with contempt, reducing the political process to a Byzantine and meaningless guessing-game.

Like so many churches in Palestine in Byzantine times, the Gethsemane building was in the form of a basilica with three aisles.

This article from the style of its architectural art form as the breakthrough point, Analysis of the Byzantine-style architecture features.

D. The significance of the work of the Byzantine jurists in preserving the Roman legal heritage would be hard to exaggerate.

In Byzantine time, the queen would be arranged to give birth to the royal heirs in a purple room.

His Christ, his Paul, his arch angels are endowed with an irresistible charm, a gentleness in which there is no trace of Byzantine severity.

For the most part, the military tools and techniques of medieval China would have been familiar to a Byzantine visitor (and vice versa).

Nevertheless, the period did witness considerable political and military strength and one of the high-points of Byzantine culture.

Sacred Heart Hospital in Paris is a white, with a Byzantine-style cathedral, and its style is the East, like India's Taj Mahal.

Like the double-headed eagle adopted by European emperors since Byzantine times, the EU now tries to act as one body with two heads.

But this been a struggle, largely thanks to the Byzantine nature oftheAmerican system.

Others again see it as a catalyst for the European Renaissance, especially after Hellenic talent was freed from Byzantine dogmatism.

Romanos was an able commander, but he found himself associated with the most famous of Byzantine defeats -- the Battle of Mantzikert (1071).

She leads the Programming Methodology Group at MIT, with a current research focus in Byzantine Fault Tolerance and distributed computing.

Their music is a blend combining Byzantine past, through Eastern Orthodox Church music with a rich gamut of ethnic Macedonian music rhythms.

Her family was low-ranking in the byzantine system of social controls in place in North Korea.

After Byzantine was beaten by Turk in the year of 1453, western People looked down on Byzantine civilization increasingly.

Right now, Byzantine history is in vogue at many universities while old-fashioned classical studies are struggling to hold their own.

a. The brothers of the woman fight the emir and he agrees to return to "Romania" (=Byzantine Empire) and become a Christian.

Meanwhile, as the former greatest power in the Sea, Byzantine Empire was presented with severe conflict from inside.

Priceless and fascinating collection of Cypriot antiquities and art treasures from the Neolithic Age to the early Byzantine Period.

A portico or lobby of an early Christian or Byzantine church or basilica, originally separated from the nave by a railing or screen.

The Byzantine era extended from the 13th century and went intothe16th century and was characterized by art withreligiousinfluence.

This technique was responsible for the great shimmering mosaics of the Byzantine period.

Its Byzantine structure means the Blair finances are difficult to understand .

The splendid and elegant structure of bricks and wood shows a strong influence of the Byzantine style of architecture.

An Arab emir (Mousour) carries off the daughter (Eirene) of a Byzantine general named Doukas.

They are often the subject of Byzantine court spats involving bankrupt state companies and jilted Chinese banks.

Second, Mr Obama's scattershot tax increases are a poor substitute for the wholesale reform America's Byzantine tax code needs.

Since the trade, so that the integration of the eastern Arab, Islamic culture and formed their own unique Byzantine art alone.

b. Basil killed Soudales, identified as an Arab, but probably really a Byzantine general of this name, sent against the Paulicians in 855.

The palimpsest is believed to have been created by Byzantine monks in the 13th century, probably in Constantinople .

I started to tell people that the mournful Byzantine look was in this season.

a. Byzantine city life, based upon trade and the presence of many large landowners, continued an unbroken tradition with antiquity.

Counting from its founding to the fall of the Byzantine Empire, ancient Rome lasted for a whopping 2, 214 years!

Lax regulation failed to keep tabs on Wall Street's excessive risk-taking and byzantine financial products.

But if the US applies a genuinely Byzantine strategy, it has a good chance of stopping a slide into conflict.

Frampton's woodcuts, which recall Byzantine artwork, especially in the wide-eyed, angular faces, are extraordinarily compelling.

Isolated from the outside world, the Byzantine domes of the Kremlin reflect centuries of resistance to progress and reform.

No one doubts that America's corporate-tax system is a Byzantine mess of high statutory rates and oodles of exemptions.

He was surrounded by the folk music of the Romanian countryside and the liturgy of the Byzantine Orthodox Church.

Byzantine guard troops are financed by the Emperor himself and unlike many Byzantine units consist purely of Greek troops.

The Byzantine Empire, last remnant of the Roman Empire split into several separate kingdoms, and never recovered.

The byzantine heavy spear men are elite units armed with long spears and swords - made up of veteran troops and are well equipped.

During this time, the Byzantine mosaic entered its flourishing Period.

Byzantine art is an acquired taste and probably not one in ten of the visitors has acquired it.

The Iconoclastic Controversy exerted a tremendous influence in the history of the Byzantine Empire.

After a short spell of Byzantine rule, and a probable sack by the Vandals, the islands were conquered by the Arabs in AD 870.

Fourthly, with the foundation of new Kingdom of Sicily, the safety of Byzantine Empire was in danger.

Boris Johnson, the present Conservative one, has been equally unimpressed, describing the famously convoluted contracts as "Byzantine" .

Throughout the campaign it will be the Byzantine cavalry and missile troops that will be crucial to success in battle.

The first strain appeared in the sixth century during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian.

The Byzantine emperor Basil I officially recognized Mount Athos as a spiritual center in A.

Naturally, these powerful apologies aroused the anger of the Byzantine emperor.

They think of it as Shangri-la, with Byzantine ways to get around.

Whatever the source of new revenue, America's Byzantine funding system will remain an obstacle to improved planning.

The brilliance of Byzantine art is proof enough that something extraordinary happened on the Bosphorus.

Besides the Byzantine and Romanesque styles introduced before, the most influential styles of the Middle Ages is the Gothic.

During her marriage to Louis, she participated in the Second Crusade in 1147 and even traveled with her husband to the Byzantine Empire.

The Byzantine church provided another important aspect of contemporary social life.

Greek tyrants, Arab emirs, Norman knights, Byzantine bishops and Holy Roman Emperors made Sicily the place it is.

The church dates back to the Byzantine period, with rebuilding carried out in 1636 and in 1713 when it was purchased by Kykko Monastery.

An anonymous Byzantine master, inspired by faith, imagined the beauty of the Lord's garden.

Byzantine Empire: Empire, southeastern and southern Europe and western Asia.

Edward Gibbon considered the whole history of Byzantine lasting over 1000 years as a miserable experience.

Builit in 1063 on the site of the old basilica, the current basilica is an excellent example of Byzantine architecture.

The coming agreements, pacts and understandings among corporations will need a word beyond byzantine to describe them.

In the Byzantine Empire, the rise of the mosaic with the development of Christian churches and palaces in the form of murals.

The chief sources for the Greek mathematical works are Byzantine Greek codices.

The current, Byzantine rules may keep lawyers happy but they make life impossible for everybody else.

On the breakup of the Roman Empire, Gaza became part of the Byzantine Empire.

The Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman empires made their marks on the city of Istanbul and her citizens.

Under Roman, Byzantine, and Persian rule, Jewish presence in the province dwindled.

Explorers pulled this ancient Byzantine coin from a Black Sea wreck near Sinop, Turkey.

b. Bulgaria and the Bulgarian church remained firmly in the Byzantine sphere -- for which the pope condemned Ignatius.

But in Iran's byzantine corridors of power, rather than in the polling stations, the fight for influence goes on.

Formerly part of the Roman and Byzantine empires, the region fell to the Ottoman Turks by 1500.

He used dense, opaque coloring, similar to examples of Byzantine panel painting.

Developed economy and culture to the Byzantine Empire in the Middle Ages far ahead of Europe.

Basilica San Marco, a Venice fairytale cathedral pure Byzantine in essence, under the hot sun. Here we come ~ Piazza San Marco.

Justinian was a Byzantine emperor.

Fragments of the Byzantine mosaic have also been restored.

True, the Byzantine world was weighed down by deference to classical Greek models.

The Byzantine Empire was then conquered by the Ottoman Empire.

a. The Sultan even intervened in domestic Byzantine political feuds.

Some bankers remain sceptical, saying Saudi Arabia's Byzantine politics often mean ref-orms are slow or never emerge.

Basil II's reign marks the "high-water mark" of the Middle Byzantine period.

The task of simplifying Brazil's byzantine tax code she described as "urgent" .

Cyprus became part of the Byzantine Empire after the partitioning of the Roman Empire in 395, and remained so for almost 900 years.

Demise of the Byzantine Empire began a decisive battle.

The cathedral features the ancient art of Byzantine mosaics.

It was under Byzantine rule until the Arabs seized control in 870.

Take these 11th Century bronze Enkolpion crucifixes from the Byzantine dynasty.

Greece has been under the rule of almost every major empire, including the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires.

According to story by Procopius[17], it was not until 552 CE that the Byzantine emperor Justinian obtained the first silkworm eggs.

Peterffy 's actions and contemplations reflect a growing discomfort with Byzantine modern markets .

The state's Byzantine tax system, says Gerald Parsky, a private-equity investor.

This byzantine story comes from Bala Beluk, a district in the country's south-western province of Farah.

"Byzantine doesn't begin to describe this structure, " said one person briefed on the situation.

they are built on the byzantine pattern , in small scale , and have painted fresco decoration.

To outsiders, the process of choosing party successors remains as opaquely Byzantine as ever.

a bill to simplify the Byzantine tax structure.

Byzantine hand grenades with Greek fire in the 10th to 12th centuries are on display in the National Museum at Athens.

This paper discusses the development and changes of Byzantine mosaic, and the social history behind it.

Laiki Yitonia Built by Archbishop Germanos II in 1695 this is an interesting example of the Franco-Byzantine style.

D. 5-6 Century before the upbuilding of Islam, Arabia was influenced by two forces which were Byzantine Empire and Sasan Empire.

A Byzantine emperor or prince.

b. The Byzantine view is well expressed by Anna Komnena.

when the Byzantine emperor Justin II gave it to the people of Rome.

And you call this Byzantine?

The first grenades appeared in the Byzantine Empire, not long after the reign of Leo III (717-741).

The cave itself used to be a Byzantine monastic retreat, dated at about 1, 000 years old.

he shackled private enterprise with byzantine controls and denied autonomy to the public sector

On the Spirituality Dynamic Sense of Icon by Byzantine

International Association for Byzantine Studies;

byzantine furniture had the profound influence on the later western furniture

Classical Studies & Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies

A Byzantine faults-tolerance protocol of identity authentication

Adaptive Failure Detection in Byzantine-fault-tolerant Service

Classics, Ancient History, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

Research on a byzantine solidus found in Dingbian County, Shaanxi Province of China

Byzantine Christian Religion Influence's on Russian Culture

On the Cause of the Decline of Byzantine Empire

Analysing the Status of the Byzantine Royal Women Participating in Political Affairs in the 11 - 13th Century

Cultural Links Between Byzantine and the Western World

History of Byzantine and Mediterranean ZYX

On the Problem of Religious Controversy in Early Byzantine Empire

Research on Emperor Succession System of Byzantine

a byzantine relationship in this family

Byzantine Art Exhibit Opens in New York

The Effect of Byzantine's Culture to Europe Culture

The first Byzantine silver coin firstly discovered in China