Barbarian invasions in Greece during the Byzantine era were common with mostly Albanian tribes settling in the fertile plains ...

Authorities in Turkey have sealed off a luxury spa set up by illegally modifying a 1,500-year-old cistern near Hagia Sophia ...

Discover how his loyalty to Emperor Justinian and his unmatched tactical brilliance laid the foundation for some of the Byzantine Empire’s greatest triumphs. Against the odds, Prince Harry has ...

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The first building to include a fully pendentive dome, Hagia Sophia is a paragon of Byzantine architecture. It was built as a Christian church by emperor Justinian I in 537, but it now serves as a ...

By blending Roman legal principles, Byzantine refinements like the Justinian Code (a compilation ... The collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 left northern Italy contested, with ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic is ruthlessly exploited by the tourism industry. It is a theme eloquently ...

In addition to preparing an Italian version of this book, he is working on a comparative study of the identity formation of the Japanese living in the shadow of the Chinese Empire, of the Arabs in ...

following the decision of the emperor Justinian to close the Academy in Athens. The new Muslim elites who occupied Gondeshapur were determined to revive, absorb, and spread what they saw as this ...

Athens and Cairo have agreed to preserve the status of the historic St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, the world’s oldest ...