Early life and accession to the throne. The Justinian dynasty began with the accession of its namesake Justin I to the throne. Justin I was born in a big village, Bederiana, in the 450s CE. Like many country youths, he went to Constantinople and enlisted in the army, where, due to his physical abilities, he became a part of the Excubitors, the palace guards.

The Byzantine Empire was ruled by the Palaiologos dynasty in the period between 1261 and 1453, from the restoration of Byzantine rule to Constantinople by the usurper Michael VIII Palaiologos following its recapture from the Latin Empire, founded after the Fourth Crusade (1204), up to the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire.Together with the preceding …

The Byzantine Empire was ruled by emperors of the Komnenos dynasty for a period of 104 years, from 1081 to about 1185. The Komnenian (also spelled Comnenian) period comprises the reigns of five emperors, Alexios I, John II, Manuel I, Alexios II and Andronikos I.It was a period of sustained, though ultimately incomplete, restoration of the military, territorial, economic and …

Súradnice. Srbsko (srb. Србија / Srbija), dlhý tvar Srbská republika (srb. Република Србија / Republika Srbija) je parlamentná republika, ktorá sa nachádza v strede Balkánskeho polostrova.Hlavným mestom je Belehrad, ktorý obýva okolo 1,75 milióna obyvateľov, významný dopravný uzol ležiaci na sútoku Sávy a Dunaja. ...

The Byzantine Empire was ruled by emperors of the dynasty of Heraclius between 610 and 711. The Heraclians presided over a period of cataclysmic events that were a watershed in the history of the Empire and the world.. Heraclius, the founder of his dynasty, was of Armenian origin.. At the beginning of the dynasty, the Empire's culture was still essentially Ancient Roman, dominating …

Staroveký Rím je tradičné slovenské označenie štátneho útvaru, ktorý vznikol v 8. storočí pred Kr. na Apeninskom polostrove v dnešnom Ríme ako mestský štát, postupne ovládol celé Stredomorie a v roku 395 po Kr. sa rozdelil na Západorímsku ríšu (zanikla v roku 476 po Kr.) a Byzantskú ríšu (zanikla v roku 1453 po Kr.). Od ovládnutia Stredomoria sa často označuje aj ...

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople.It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand …

Macedónia (staršie - pred vznikom dnešného štátu Bývalá juhoslovanská republika Macedónsko - alebo vo vzťahu k balkánskym vojnám aj Macedónsko; zastarano Makedónia; veľmi zastarano - ale pre rímsku provinciu aj dnes po latinsky - Macedonia; gr. Μακεδονία - Makedonía) je historické územie starovekého Grécka.. Od 7. stor. pred Kr. obývané národom gréckeho ...

Bitka na Kosovom poli bola bitka medzi Srbskom s jeho spojencami a Osmanskou ríšou.Odohrala sa 28. júna 1389 (podľa juliánskeho kalendára 15. júna 1389 na deň svätého Víta) približne 5 kilometrov severozápadne od Prištiny.Osmanskí Turci v nej definitívne porazili Srbské cárstvo, ktoré sa dostalo na vyše 500 rokov pod Turecké jarmo.. Dodnes je 28. jún (deň. sv. …

Internal developments. Although tradition attributed the "Byzantine Renaissance" to Basil I (867–886), initiator of the Macedonian dynasty, some later scholars have credited the reforms of Basil's predecessor, Michael III (842–867) and of the erudite Theoktistos (died 855). The latter in particular favoured culture at the court, and, with a careful financial policy, steadily increased …