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Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.
In 944, Sayf al-Dawla established himself as the head of the independent Hamdanid Emirate of Aleppo. Sayf’s rule over his ...
George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...
The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Through the past two centuries, fabled Byzantium was reduced to little more ...
Palestinian village is actually a Byzantine period synagogueDavid Cohen/Flash90 An article about a new book on "Palestinian history and culture," published in The Guardian, embarrassingly used a ...
King Charles III and Queen Camilla wrapped up a state visit to Italy on Thursday with a visit to Dante's tomb and ...
To chart the spread of the blazes in the Carolinas, state agencies have released maps that are updated daily. The North Carolina Department of Public Safety announced a mandatory evacuation on ...
Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...
Night - Partly cloudy. Winds NE. The overnight low will be 30 °F (-1.1 °C). Cloudy with a high of 58 °F (14.4 °C) and a 37% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 5 to 15 mph (8 to 24.1 ...