Basic beliefs and practices are the same and based on the Bible. 395 AD Roman Empire split: West was ruled from Rome (Catholic) East was ruled by the Byzantine (Orthodox) Major differences: Orthodox don’t recognize the Pope Orthodox ...
In Western classical literature, Kushan is mentioned once by Bardaisan of Edessa in his Book of the Laws of Countries, when he discusses the 'Laws of the Bactrians who are called Kushans', and remarks on their supposedly luxurious lifestyle and promiscuous morals of their women. It is thoug...
After the Council of Nicaea (325), whose canons are still effective in the Orthodox church, each province of the Roman Empire had its own synod of bishops that acted as a fully independent unit for the consecration of new bishops and also as a high ecclesiastical tribunal. In the ...
The expansion of the Ottoman EmpireMap showing the expansion of the Ottoman Empire from about 1300 to 1700. The empire reached its greatest extent between 1683 and 1699.(more) The glories of the Nemanjić empire were short-lived. In 1354 theOttoman Empiregained a foothold on the European ma...
In order to understand an uneasy nature of such work one should know that only Ottoman Empire (without including Russian and Habsburg Empires ruling these lands), dissolved in a total of forty modern day countries. Consecutively authors were forced to prioritize and shortlist large amount of ...
This Eastern “nationalism,” characterized by a strong Church–ethnicity bond, was, in his view, born from the decaying Eastern Roman sense of universalism, the demise of which was facilitated first by Hellenization of the late Eastern Roman Empire and then by the Slavic and Arab resistance ...
These were all part of the Empire of Charlemagne. Lorraine was only briefly a separate kingdom and then became one of the Stem Duchies of Germany, ultimately to be divided between Germany, France, and the Low Countries. The Periphery of Francia thus means the surrounding kingdoms. These ...
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This Eastern “nationalism,” characterized by a strong Church–ethnicity bond, was, in his view, born from the decaying Eastern Roman sense of universalism, the demise of which was facilitated first by Hellenization of the late Eastern Roman Empire and then by the Slavic and Arab resistance ...