byzantine

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The town’s dominant monument is Little Hagia Sophia, a Byzantine church that in the eighth century hosted the last ecumenical council recognized by both the Eastern and Western churches.

From The Wall Street Journal

Now, with cases surging among California’s poorest patients, the state is struggling to reform its Byzantine system for allocating care.

From Los Angeles Times

Also in 2018, dozens of shipwrecks were found in the Aegean sea dating back to the Greek, Roman and Byzantine eras.

From BBC

An FBI expert later determined the mosaic dated to the Eastern Roman Empire or the Byzantine period, making the mosaic around 1,500 years old.

From Washington Times

“This sort of complicated, somewhat Byzantine situation is very rare,” Charlie Hobart, a United spokesman, told me over the phone.

From New York Times