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The valens aqueduct of constantinople: hydrology and hydraulics
A hydrological and hydraulic engineering analysis has been carried out on the Valens aqueduct system constructed from around AD 345 and serving Constantinople.
M. Crapper
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"The sun was darkened for seventeen days (AD 797)". An interdisciplinary exploration of celestial phenomena between Byzantium, Charlemagne, and a volcanic eruption [PDF]
The blinding of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI in Constantinople in August 797 and his overthrow by his mother Eirene, who then until 802 ruled as first female emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, was used as legitimation for the coronation of the Frankish King Charlemagne as emperor of the Romans on December 25, 800, by contemporaries in Western
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Visit of King Peter I Karađorđević to Constantinople in 1910 [PDF]
The visit of King Petar I Karađorđević to the Turkish sultan is one of the eight visits in modern Serbian history. Seven meetings of Serbian rulers with sultans took place in Constantinople, except for one that took place in Bulgaria.
Zarković Vesna S.
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With a focus on the crafting of Constantinople as a literary world, this article considers how the city’s particularly rich and composite soundscape, linguascape and scriptworld around 1900 contributes to a vernacular poetics.
Helena Bodin
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The Lost Cameo, the Vanished Statue of the Emperor and Constantine as a New Alexander
The aim of this paper is to propose a reinterpretation of the meaning of the lost colossus of Constantine the Great from the Forum of his name in Constantinople, in the light of the iconography of the emperor on the cameo from the cathedral in the ...
Piotr Ł. Grotowski
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Constructing Melchior Lorichs's 'Panorama of Constantinople' [PDF]
In Constructing Melchior Lorichs's Panorama of Constantinople, Nigel Westbrook, Kenneth Rainsbury Dark, and Rene Van Meeuwen propose that Melchior Lorichs's 1559 Panorama of Constantinople was created by using a viewing grid.
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Introduction. The article aims to compare two texts concerning byzantine diplomatic practices of the mid 10th century. The first one is described in the 13th chapter of the treatise “De Administrando Imperio”, in which its author Constantine VII ...
Aleksey S. Shchavelev
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Throwing Ballast Overboard: the Attitude of the Eastern Roman Empire towards the West in the Fifth Century AD [PDF]
The year 395 marked a turning point in the fortunes of the Roman Empire. The division of the imperial territory into two portions proved to be final and, in the short-term historical perspective, led to the downfall of the western part.
Mikhail V. Gratsianskiy
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Gennadios Scholarios and the Church of the Holy Apostles [PDF]
The article tests the established view that Gennadios Scholarios, the first patriarch of Constantinople after the 1453 Conquest, used the church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople as the seat of the Patriarchate for a few months in 1454 ...
Melvani Nicholas
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Adversus Iudaeos in the Sermon Written by Theodore Syncellus on the Avar Siege of AD 626 [PDF]
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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