Apollonia in Cyrenaica (modern Libya) was founded by Greek colonists and became a significant commercial…
Tag: Eastern Roman Empire
“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…
A beautifully illustrated story by Chrysavgi Sakellaropoulou and Spyros Theocharis has brought the East Roman…
Yesterday a statue of the last Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, often called the Eastern…
Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, today more…
A highly controversial post on the National Geographic’s Resource Library titled “Mar 28, 1930 CE:…
Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, or more commonly known today as the…