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3 days ago · With the fall of the Exarchate and the weakening of Byzantine power, the Duchy of Venice arose, led by a doge and established on the island of Rialto; it prospered from maritime trade with the Byzantine Empire and other eastern states.
1 day ago · The Byzantine Empire under Andronikos II Palaiologos and Andronikos III Palaiologos was raided by the Golden Horde between 1320 and 1341, until the Byzantine port of Vicina Macaria was occupied.
1 day ago · Originally a church, later a mosque, the 6th-century Hagia Sophia (532–537) by Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years, until the completion of the Seville Cathedral (1507) in Spain. Construction of church depicted in codex Manasses Chronicle (14th century)
3 days ago · Istanbul, largest city and principal seaport of Turkey. Historically known as Byzantium and then Constantinople, it was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Istanbul straddles the Bosporus strait, one of two waterways that separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey.
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5 days ago · First Council of Ephesus. Second Council of Ephesus. Key People: Heraclitus. Markos Eugenikos. Saint Timothy. Theodotion. John of Ephesus. Related Topics: archaeology. aqueduct. triumphal arch. Related Places: Turkey. Byzantine Empire. ancient Greece. Anatolia. ancient Middle East. Ephesus, Turkey: Memmius Monument.
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5 days ago · Byzantium and the Crusades. Jonathan Harris. London, Hambledon and London Books, 2003, ISBN: 1852852984; 277pp.; Price: £19.95. Reviewer: Professor David Jacoby. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Citation: Professor David Jacoby, review of Byzantium and the Crusades, (review no. 371) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/371.
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