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The Byzantine Greek monks Cyril and Methodius are credited with bringing the alphabet to Russia and laying the foundations of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The history of the Byzantine Empire spans 1058 years.
The ancient Roman and Byzantine empires had well-developed associations known as demes.
The Patriarchate in Istanbul is considered the heart of the Orthodox world and dates back to the Byzantine Empire, which collapsed when the Muslim Ottomans conquered the city in 1453.
The Byzantine Empire is a historical construction.
Dominant Berber kingdoms were more and more present during the Byzantine rule of North Africa.
How long did the Byzantine rule last in Algeria?
Its architecture is principally Romanesque in form, with a generous admixture of Byzantine and Saracenic motives in detail and decoration.
Movie financing arrangements are infamously byzantine, but he has set up an account that anyone who has put money into the movie can log on to and check to see the movie's expenses, grosses and their cut.
The Ottomans brought the long-lived Byzantine Empire to its end.
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a Byzantine system of regulations
The byzantine, meandering processes of Icann are engineered in a way that avoids any dissent surfacing, all under the reassuring guise of consensus.
Those following what has been dubbed “Pestminster” may nevertheless struggle to keep up with the Byzantine internal reporting structures, the range of accusations being levied and the sheer number of MPs involved.
It’s also important to note that this analysis deals solely with intrinsic failure, or the odds of a conspiracy being exposed intentionally or accidentally by actors involved—extrinsic analysis by non-participants would also increase the odds of detection, rendering such Byzantine cover-ups far more likely to fail.
I never went through a time when more people told me not to trust other people on an issue. Perhaps they were all right. The internal politics were byzantine, much of it played out in the media.
This was the crowning incident of our visit, and I wondered with what Byzantine ritual the Anointed One fresh from the exercise of his priestly functions would be received among his women.
The result is a byzantine system of government directed by 160 ministers, a structure that absorbs 50 percent of Bosnia’s gross domestic product of $15 billion, according to the World Bank.
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