The oldest Armenian coins found in Armenia date back to the 6th-5th centuries BC. As…
Tag: Eastern Roman Empire
On May 11, 330, Constantine I dedicated Byzantium (Constantinople; now Istanbul) as the new capital…
Theophobos (Θεόφοβος), originally Nasir (ناصر), was a Kurdish commander of the Khurramite sect who converted…
John I Tzimiskes (Greek: Ἰωάννης Α΄ Τζιμισκής, Iōánnēs I Tzimiskēs; c. 925 – 10 January…
In ancient Greece there was a similar custom of decorating a tree, except that the…
Throughout its long history Orthodoxy has been linked – or, better, infused – with ethnicity; and this for multiple reasons.
Some days ago, I friend of mine asked me in all sincerity: “Do you believe…
When Nikolai Fedorov was bold enough to state that “the dogma of the Trinity is…
In the year 395, the Roman Empire split into two parts: the Western Roman Empire,…
The Basilica Cistern, or Cisterna Basilica, is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that…
Apollonia in Cyrenaica (modern Libya) was founded by Greek colonists and became a significant commercial…
“Greek fire” has become infamous as a mysterious East Roman (Byzantine) incendiary weapon that helped…
Live Science reports that independent researcher Errikos Maniotis and Zeliha Demirel-Gökalp of Anadolu University have…
With 260,000 euros, the Catalans helped restore the unique vault of the Vatopedi Monastery as…
The oldest icon of the Crucifixion of Christ is located in the Greek Orthodox Holy…
John I Tzimiskes (Greek: Ἰωάννης Α΄ Τζιμισκής, Iōánnēs I Tzimiskēs; c. 925 – 10 January…
The Eastern Roman Empire, more commonly known as the Byzantine Empire, was a Greek-speaking Empire,…
The Spadafora family are Sicilian nobility of Byzantine-Greek origin. According to tradition, the family was…
A new book aimed at teaching Arab-speaking Greek Orthodox Christians the Koine Greek language was…
John I Tzimiskes (Greek: Ἰωάννης Α΄ Τζιμισκής, Iōánnēs I Tzimiskēs; c. 925 – 10 January…