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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_in_Turkey
WebThe Greeks of Turkey are referred to in Turkish as Rumlar, meaning "Romans".This derives from the self-designation Ῥωμαῖος (Rhomaîos, pronounced ro-ME-os) or Ρωμιός (Rhomiós, pronounced ro-mee-OS or rom-YOS) used by Byzantine Greeks, who were the continuation of the Roman Empire in the east.The ethnonym Yunanlar is exclusively used …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Greece
WebManuel I Comnenus (1143–1180), Byzantine Emperor, was responsible for a distinct revival of Byzantine fortunes until his defeat at Myriokephalon; Michael VIII Palaeologus (1159–1182), Byzantine (before 1261 Nicene) Emperor, recaptured Constantinople from the Franks. Marcus Musurus, professor of Greek language at the University of Padua.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_Sea
WebThe Aegean Sea (Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος: "Egéo Pélagos", Turkish: "Ege Denizi" or "Adalar Denizi") is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia.It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some 215,000 square kilometres. In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea and the Black Sea …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire_under_the_Macedonian_dynasty
WebThe Byzantine Empire underwent a revival during the reign of the Macedonian emperors of the late 9th, 10th, and early 11th centuries, when it gained control over the Adriatic Sea, Southern Italy, and all of the territory of the Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria.The Macedonian dynasty was characterised by a cultural revival in spheres such as philosophy and the arts, and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mathematics
WebGreek mathematics allegedly began with Thales of Miletus (c. 624–548 BC). Very little is known about his life and works, although it is generally agreed that he was one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece.According to Proclus, he traveled to Babylon from where he learned mathematics and other subjects, and came up with the proof of what is now called …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople
WebFollowing the siege of Constantinople in 1203, on 1 August 1203 the pro-Crusader Alexios Angelos was crowned Emperor Alexios IV of the Byzantine Empire. He attempted to pacify the city, but riots between anti-Crusader Greeks and pro-Crusader Latins broke out later that month and lasted until November, during which time most of the populace began to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_name
WebHistory. Ancient Greeks generally had a single name, often qualified with a patronymic, a clan or tribe, or a place of origin.Married women were identified by the name of their husbands, not their fathers. Hereditary family names or surnames began to be used by elites in the Byzantine period. Well into the 9th century, they were rare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_cavalry
WebHeavy cavalry was a class of cavalry intended to deliver a battlefield charge and also to act as a tactical reserve; they are also often termed shock cavalry. Although their equipment differed greatly depending on the region and historical period, heavy cavalry were generally mounted on large powerful warhorses, wore body armor, and armed with either lances, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanariots
WebPatriarchate. After the 1453 fall of Constantinople, when the Sultan replaced de jure the Byzantine Emperor for subjugated Christians, he recognized the Ecumenical Patriarch as the religious and national leader of the Greeks and other ethnic groups in the Greek Orthodox Millet. The Patriarchate had primary importance, occupying this key role for …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire_under_the_Justinian_dynasty
WebThe Byzantine Empire had its first golden age under the Justinian dynasty, which began in 518 AD with the accession of Justin I.Under the Justinian dynasty, particularly the reign of Justinian I, the empire reached its greatest territorial extent since the fall of its Western counterpart, reincorporating North Africa, southern Illyria, southern Spain, and Italy into …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millet_(Ottoman_Empire)
WebIt was named after Roman ("Byzantine") subjects of the Ottoman Empire, but Orthodox Greeks, Bulgarians, Albanians, Georgians, Arabs, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, and Serbs were all considered part of the same millet despite their differences in ethnicity and language and despite the fact that the religious hierarchy was dominated by the Greeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chios_massacre
WebThe Chios massacre (in Greek: Η σφαγή της Χίου, Greek pronunciation: [i sfaˈʝi tis ˈçi.u]) was a catastrophe that resulted to the death, enslavement, and refuging of about four-fifths of the total population of Greeks on the island of Chios by Ottoman troops, during the Greek War of Independence in 1822. Greeks from neighboring islands had arrived on Chios and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_string
WebFormal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_the_Byzantine_Empire
WebThe civil war of 1341–1347 saw exploitation of the Byzantine Empire by the Serbs, whose ruler took advantage of the chaos to proclaim himself emperor of the Serbs and Greeks. The Serbian king Stefan Uroš IV Dušan made significant territorial gains in Byzantine Macedonia in 1345 and conquered large swathes of Thessaly and Epirus in 1348.