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Bookmark or Share- Byzantine quotes - History ForumJust as the Byzantines referred to other peoples by various classical names, making the Goths or Slavs into Scythians and the Arabs into Medes, so too they also regularly called themselves AUSONES, an ancient name for the original inhabitants of ITALY. This was the standard "classicizing" name that the Byzantines used for themselves, not ...
- Why did the Byzantine Empire replace Latin with Greek?The Byzantines continued to call themselves Romans, but they replaced the most essential element of a culture, language. They adopted Greek as their official language. Why?
- Origins of Byzantine blinding - History ForumFor example, Serbian king Milutin attempted (failed) to blind his son Stefan to prevent him from taking the throne. Byzantines also used blinding to indimidate their opponents, such as the famous blindings of Bulgarians/Macedonian Slavs by Basil II. This goes on to show how influential the Byzantines were in the Balkans.
- Jerusalem’s Role in the Byzantine Empire | History ForumThough the southern front was stabilized between 718–863 a Byzantine resurgence occured between 863 and the 11th century with attempts to reconquer the city. The Byzantines pushed into Armenia in the 930s, Nikephoros II Phokas conquered Cullicia and northern Syria and John I Tzimiskes almost reached Jerusalem.
- Did Byzantine possess the most heavy cavalry Kataphractoi during ...In 1176, the empire was dealt another serious blow that severely weakened it when the Turks crushed the Byzantines at the Battle of Myriokephalon. Although devastated from the defeat, it was not until the havoc and destruction of the Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople in 1204 that the late Byzantine cataphract truly died.
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