At the end of the fifth century, Zacharias of Mytilene composed his Ecclesiastical History. It was translated and abbridged by a Syriac author, who added material of his own, like chapter 8.4. This second author is called Pseudo-Zacharias. The translation…
Zamasp: king of Persia, ruling from 496 to 498/499, member of the Sasanian dynasty.
Zamasp
Main deeds:
Name: Zamasp
Beginning of reign: 496
Successor of:…
Zancle (Greek: Ζάγκλη): Greek city on Sicily, modern Messina.Early History
Coin from Zancle
Founded c.730 when the Greeks expanded their trade network…
Zela: town in Pontus/Cappadocia, famous for a battle in 47 BCE, in which Julius Caesar defeated Pharnaces of Pontus (modern Zile in Turkey).Zela is an old city. In the nineteenth century BCE, Assyrian merchants who were trading with Anatolia, recorded…
Zeno I: emperor of the East-Roman (Byzantine) empire (474-475, 476-491).Names
Zeno I
c.440: Tarasicodissa Rousoumbladeotes
November 474: Zeno
January 475: resigns
August 476: returns
9 April…
Zenobia: empress of Palmyra (r.267-272).
Zenobia
Names:
date of birth unknown: Julia Aurelia Zenobia
Autumn 267: clarissima regina
270: clarissima pia regina
Spring 272: Septimia Zenobia…
Ziaelas: king of of Bithynia (r. 254-228 BCE).When Nicomedes I of Bithynia died in 255 BCE, he left sons from two marriages: from Ditizele, a lady from Hellespontine Phrygia, he had sons named Ziaelas and Prusias, and several other children…