The Genetic Variability of Present-Day Bulgarians Captures Ancient and Recent Ancestral Contributions. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives Thanks to its pivotal crossroad position, Bulgaria played a fundamental key role during all the migration processes that interested the continent through time. While the genetic variability of the country has been deeply investigated using uniparental markers, previous genome‐wide autosomal‐based surveys mainly consisted of wider ...
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Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion [PDF]
, 2016 A Byzantinist specializing in the history of the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461), the author presents four books of different genres written in English and devoted to the medieval state on the south coast of the Black Sea. The most spectacular of them is
Dąbrowska, Małgorzata
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Representation c. 800: Arab Byzantine Carolingian [PDF]
, 2009 What could or should be visually represented was a contested issue across the medieval Christian and Islamic world around the year 800. This article examines how Islamic, Byzantine, Carolingian and Palestinian Christian attitudes toward representation ...
Brubaker, Leslie
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Adversus Iudaeos in the Sermon Written by Theodore Syncellus on the Avar Siege of AD 626 [PDF]
, 2016 A sermon attributed to Theodore Syncellus (Theodoros Synkellos) is considered as one of the basic sources for the study of the Avar siege of Constantinople in AD 626.
Hurbanič, Martin
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Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army [PDF]
, 2012 This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist cavalry, defined as catafracti
Wojnowski, Michał
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Normans and Other Franks in 11th Century Byzantium: the Careers of the Adventurers before the Rule of Alexius I Comnenus [PDF]
, 2014 The paper examines the Frankish presence in Byzantium during 11th century. It was stressed that the mentioned period was the time of a great influx of westerners to the East.
Wierzbiński, Szymon
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The Defence of the Long Walls of Thrace (Μακρά Τείχη τῆς Θρᾴκης) under Justinian the Great (527–565 A.D.) [PDF]
, 2012 The paper discusses the question of the defence of the Long Walls of Thrace (Μακρά Τείχη τῆς Θρᾴκης) or the Anastasian Wall (Αναστάσειο Τείχος) under Justinian the Great (527–565 A.D.).
Wiewiorowski, Jacek
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Ethics and politics of Great Moravia of the 9th century [PDF]
, 2018 The author studies the role of Christianity in two forms of 9th century political ethics in the history of Great Moravia, represented by the Great Moravian rulers Rastislav and Svatopluk.
Gluchman, Vasil
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Archaeometric Analyses of Medieval Pottery From the Lower Danube Region, Romania
ChemPlusChem, Accepted Article.This paper discusses the pottery manufacturing in the Lower Danube region during the Early Medieval period. Optical Microscopy (OM), Particle Induced X‐ray Emission (PIXE) and X‐ray Diffraction (XRD) were performed on thirty‐two ceramic shards unearthed at Pantelimonu de Sus, Romania, dated to the 8th‐10th c. AD. The petrographic observations showed an
Roxana Bugoi +3 more
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, 2016 This is a review of the thirty five historians who wrote political history at the Byzantine Empire and the beginning of the Ottoman rule on Constantinople.This is a review of the thirty five historians who wrote political history at the Byzantine Empire ...
Martínez Lacy, Ricardo
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