byzantine

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In antiquity, the city of Tyre was at various times Phoenician, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

Recently, I took Gemini on a long walk with me, during which we had a Socratic dialogue about the history of the Byzantine Empire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026

In the early 1000s Maria Argyropoulina, a Byzantine emperor’s niece, brought gold forks to Venice for her wedding to the Doge’s son.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025

The most serious was the fire stared next to the ruins of the Byzantine Church of St George.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

“This,” he would later state, “was a shipwreck of a period never before investigated, the time of the beginning of the Byzantine Empire.”

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler