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    byzantine


    1. with the idea that the Byzantine Empire,


    2. Byzantine architecture has nothing from


    3. fal of the Byzantine Empire was due in


    4. It is said that, in Byzantine iconography, the


    5. Byzantine iconography is Greek


    6. said that Byzantine Empire was influenced by the


    7. It revealed huge amounts of information about how things were run here at this most westerly outpost of the Byzantine Empire, when Islam ruled a large portion of that world


    8. Angered by this decision, the Monophysites became hostile to the Byzantine government, and therefore offered little resistance to the Persian and the Arab invasions of Syria and Egypt in the seventh century


    9. The third caliph, Othman was the first to have success against the remaining lands of the Roman-Christian Eastern (Byzantine) Empire of Constantine, expanding farther into the Persian (Iranian) heartland, and finally beginning the move west of their homeland into North Africa (AD 645–690)


    10. After that it ground against its Christian (Byzantine) adversary with oscillating consequences until the first Christian Crusade in the eleventh century caused them a major if temporary setback, and the Mongol invasion in AD 1228–1245 caused them the loss of all their territories north and east of their desert homeland

    11. It had to do with the difference between the Western (Roman Catholic) and Eastern Orthodox (Byzantine) interpretations of Adam and Eve’s original sin


    12. The Eastern (Byzantine) church’s triumph eclipsed the Western (Roman) church’s successes to such an extent that it (the Eastern church) became the dominant theological force for the three hundred years from the beginning in AD 325 to Mohammed’s challenge to it in AD 625


    13. His heirs went on to become such a force that by AD 664 they usurped a large part of the Byzantine Empire’s real estate and diminished much of its influence in the formerly Roman world


    14. It held sway over popular church thinking in the eastern (Byzantine) church


    15. With the Byzantine Empire of Heraclitus extended and exhausted with the wars against Persia, there was little initial resistance to the Muslims


    16. It was he who had conquered the Byzantine Empire


    17. The cathedral itself attracts the curiosity of tourists for its Byzantine style, a very peculiar and rare characteristic in Catholic churches of the Hispanic world


    18. Mark’s Basilica of splendid Byzantine style, the Doge’s Palace and the “Galleria dell’Accademia” (Academy of Fine Arts)


    19. I decided to delve into the EU’s Byzantine bureaucracy to find out why it is


    20. His presence was intended to help us wend our way through your Byzantine bureaucracy

    21. A descendant of a once great Byzantine royal family he was now in dire straights with the Merus


    22. fighting ability, forces under the Byzantine General Gregory were reportedly chained together to demonstrate unity


    23. Qadisiyyah, and then swept through the Byzantine defences of Egypt


    24. They were, however, unsuccessful in their seiges on the Byzantine capitol of Constantinople in 678, and again in 718 when the Byzantines were aided by Bulgarians


    25. And still not aligned with a Byzantine or other professional army, the volunteer army


    26. That blood feud may have saved not only Western Europe, but also the small remnant of the Byzantine


    27. empire—also called the Byzantine Empire—mostly consisted of the


    28. But Shah knew that traditional Hindutva politics could only be one weapon—the real test was in piercing through UP’s byzantine caste arithmetic


    29. One call was from a man who had just returned from Divine Liturgy at the Byzantine Catholic Church with his family and was not certain where his daughter was at present


    30. Without Byzantine art and sassanian art there would have been no Islamic art

    31. In the Battle of Yarmuk in 636, Muslims defeated the Byzantine army, forcing the empire to withdraw from


    32. (Melika), was a Byzantine princess who pretended to be a slave so that she


    33. on Byzantine territory in Asia Minor


    34. threat that the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I requested


    35. Byzantine and Sassanid empires once and for all


    36. These are of the early Byzantine period and are of Hellenistic, Georgian, Russian, Syrian and Coptic style and technique


    37. We walked to the church of Byzantine style, a real museum, where Brother John invited us to examine the extraordinary collection of icons on the walls of the narthex, the mosaic of the Metamorphosis, the icon stands and the floor


    38. of the Byzantine and allied armies


    39. The moral of the Byzantine sloldiers


    40. a slave in the Byzantine

    41. Only Jacob, carrying in his hand Finlay's Byzantine Empire, which he had bought in Ludgate Hill, looked a little different; for in his hand he carried a book, which book he would at nine-thirty precisely, by his own fireside, open and study, as no one else of all these multitudes would do


    42. The bunk master announces schedules of byzantine complication: Mondays are for mechanics, state history, racial sciences


    43. He ascended through Brutalist atriums and Byzantine stairways, his arms feeling yanked from their sockets, his eyes that special brand of bus-ride dry


    44. Was all of this a Byzantine scheme by Gary Murphy? Could he be acting out both personas?


    45. A more generalized version of this puzzle, called the Byzantine Generals Problem, is the same as the preceding parable except more is at play than just two generals


    46. But in the case of Bitcoin, Satoshi had the genius to add an extra detail that solves this freeloader problem: The system pays miners with bitcoins as a reward! By paying a handsome reward, the Bitcoin network maintains an adequate number of miners at all times, a reward that is not possible in the simpler solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem without a currency built into the network


    47. All the byzantine theories of Marilyn’s death share one common denominator: They involve an often frightened, vulnerable, unstable woman who had been spiraling deeper and deeper into her own mental illness


    48. Throughout much of the world, farming is highly subsidized and regulated through a byzantine system of quotas and other restrictions


    49. ’ I looked, and there he held a cross, just taken off his own neck, evidently, a large tin one, made after the Byzantine pattern


    50. Thus it was in the time of the Roman and the Byzantine emperors, and so it continued even afterward










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    Synonyms for "byzantine"

    byzantine convoluted involved knotty tangled tortuous

    "byzantine" definitions

    a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire


    of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it


    of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium


    highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious