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Byzantine and post-byzantine sources on medieval Bosnia, its area and position [PDF]
This article discusses the historical and geographical characteristics of medieval Bosnia, its area and position presented in the perception of Byzantine and post-Byzantine sources.
Babić Boris
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On the relationship between titles and spaces: A case study on Macedonia under King and Emperor Stefan Dušan (1331–1355) [PDF]
The article focuses on historical-geographical aspects of the Serbian medieval Kingdom and Empire and its relation to Byzantium in Macedonia during the 14th century. It is structured in four parts: The first is an introduction to the subject, in
Popović Mihailo St. +2 more
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John Lydus and the libraries in Constantinople of 6th century CE
This work is devoted to the study of the sources of the books of the early Byzantine writer-antiquary of the 1st half of the 6th century, Johannes Lydus.
Sinitsa, M.M. , Buzanakov, Yu.V.
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Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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The Ottoman “Interregnum” in 1402–1413: The International Aspect
After the Battle of Ankara (1402) Ottoman state went through the long crisis of interregnum. Suleyman, Musa and Mehmed, sons of the Sultan Bayezid I (1389–1402), started the struggle for the throne.
Nikolai Gennadjevich Pashkin
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ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg +3 more
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The Cuman Campaigns in 1091 » [PDF]
The Cumans appeared in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 11th century. In the first part of my study, I present a brief survey of the Cuman attacks against the Byzantine Empire until 1091.
Szilvia Kovács
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The ancient Ethiopian Christian empire was an emergent and notable power in Eastern Africa and influenced its surrounding regions. It was itself influenced both religiously and politically. The ancient Christian narrative of North Africa has been deduced
Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver
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