Byzantium

There are 1517 items in Byzantium:

Luxenberg Thesis

Luxenberg Thesis: the idea that Islam originated as a Monophysite Christian sect in eastern Syria. It assumes that the Quran was not written in Arabic but in Syriac-Arabic, which in turn presupposes that there has been a time in which…

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Macedonia (8)

Macedonia: ancient landscape and state, situated in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and northern Greece, best known because its king Alexander the Great (r.336-323) conquered the Persian Empire and inaugurated a new period in Greek history.The Roman age Antigonus' adopted…

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Mactaris

Mactaris: Numidian-Punic-Roman city in western Africa, modern Makthar.Mactaris Mactaris, Tombstone with erote The presence of Libyan and Punic inscriptions proves that Mactaris already…

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Madauros

Madauros: Roman city, Byzantine fort in Numidia, birthplace of Apuleius, modern M'daourouch.Madauros Madauros Forum (below), odeon (below), baths (below) Christianity: several churches; Augustine…

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