Greek tyrants, Arab emirs, Norman knights, Byzantine bishops and Holy Roman Emperors made Sicily the place it is.
Giotto saw traditional Byzantine madonnas painted according to a formula that had satisfied everyone for centuries, and to him they looked wooden and unnatural.
Aramaic is still spoken here and we walked through a cleft in the rockface from the Convent of st Theda, where mass was in full swing, to the Monastery of st Sergius and its tiny Byzantine church.
An anonymous Byzantine master, inspired by faith, imagined the beauty of the Lord's garden.
Despite periods of autonomy, over the centuries Armenia came under the rules of various empires including the Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Persian, and Ottoman.
The primary inspiration for Santa Claus is the 4th century Christian bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra. Nicholas resided in the ancient Lycian town of Myra, located in Byzantine Anatolia.
True, the Byzantine world was weighed down by deference to classical Greek models.
The first appeared in the 6th century during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian, reaching his capital, Constantinople, on grain ships from Egypt.
Evidently Byzantine Greek borrowed the word specifically as it applied to those faces on COINS.
Those were lost but some of these manuscripts remained in the Byzantine world of Constantinople and some were translated by the Arabs and preserved in the Arabic world.
No one doubts that America's corporate-tax system is a Byzantine mess of high statutory rates and oodles of exemptions.
The cave itself used to be a Byzantine monastic retreat, dated at about 1, 000 years old.
This is basically where we start talking about the beginning of Byzantine Christianity because it's named after the town Byzantium or Constantinople, or Istanbul.
To outsiders, the process of choosing party successors remains as opaquely Byzantine as ever.
A bill to simplify the Byzantine tax structure.
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