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The valens aqueduct of constantinople: hydrology and hydraulics

open access: yesWater History, 2020
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

"The sun was darkened for seventeen days (AD 797)". An interdisciplinary exploration of celestial phenomena between Byzantium, Charlemagne, and a volcanic eruption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
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
arxiv   +1 more source

Visit of King Peter I Karađorđević to Constantinople in 1910 [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2023
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.
doaj  

‘The clamour of Babel, in all the tongues of the Levant’: multivernacular and multiscriptal Constantinople around 1900 as a literary world

open access: yes, 2020
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Lost Cameo, the Vanished Statue of the Emperor and Constantine as a New Alexander

open access: yesVox Patrum, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Constructing Melchior Lorichs's 'Panorama of Constantinople' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
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.
Dark, Ken R   +2 more
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On One Byzantine Rhetorical Gambit to Disavow Diplomatic Precedent (Const. Porph. Dai. 13.145–194 & Liud. Relatio. 55)

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

Throwing Ballast Overboard: the Attitude of the Eastern Roman Empire towards the West in the Fifth Century AD [PDF]

open access: yesTractus Aevorum, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

Gennadios Scholarios and the Church of the Holy Apostles [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Adversus Iudaeos in the Sermon Written by Theodore Syncellus on the Avar Siege of AD 626 [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

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