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• Ēchos, plural Ēchoi, melody type associated with early Byzantine liturgical chant.

• Section 1 attempts to situate Byzantine philosophy in the general context of Byzantine culture and education, and to give a brief survey of the more important philosophical authors and their works.

• As befits a city that was under Byzantine rule between the fifth and 13th centuries, Thessaloniki has a rich and priceless supply of Byzantine antiquities that are chronologically displayed in the city’s award-winning contemporary museum.

• Inhabitants of the Byzantine Empire would have self-identified as Romaioi, or Romans.

• …Montenegro and Herzegovina, rule by Hungary, and a brief period of renewed Byzantine rule.

• Roman Catholic Church of Romania, an Eastern Catholic church of the Byzantine rite, in communion with Rome.

• The eight ēchoi of the Byzantine oktōēchos were divided into four authentic and four plagal (derived) forms.

• Routing the Byzantine armies, he surrounded Damascus, which surrendered on Sept. 4, 635, and pushed northward.

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• Aside from its own achievements, the importance of Byzantine art to the religious art of Europe cannot be overestimated.

• The Greek-cross plan was widely used in Byzantine architecture and in Western churches inspired by Byzantine examples.

• In 1892 he founded the periodical Byzantinische Zeitschrift (“Byzantine Journal”), which became the central international organ for Byzantine studies.

• Other Byzantine artists and artisans worked intermittently in the area from that time onward, so that Russian art as a whole was founded on a Byzantine basis.

• Nicholas Cabasilas, (born c. 1320, Thessalonica, Byzantine Empire—died c. 1390), Greek Orthodox lay theologian and liturgist who eminently represents the tradition of Byzantine theology.

• Many of the professional, elite troops of the Byzantine Empire perished at Manzikert, and Alp Arslan only released Romanos after the emperor agreed to cede important Byzantine territories.

• Byzantine art, architecture, paintings, and other visual arts produced in the Middle Ages in the Byzantine Empire (centred at Constantinople) and in various areas that came under its influence.

• The first elected doge, or duke, was Orso, chosen in an anti-Byzantine military declaration in 727, but he was succeeded by Byzantine officials until about 751, when the exarchate of Ravenna came to an end.

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• Russian manuscripts of this period are the only surviving sources of a highly ornate type of Byzantine chant called kontakion and contain a complex Byzantine musical notation that by then had disappeared in Byzantium.

• Byzantine chant, monophonic, or unison, liturgical chant of the Greek Orthodox church during the Byzantine Empire (330–1453) and down to the 16th century; in modern Greece the term refers to ecclesiastical music of any period.

• Thus, although the Seljuq empire never successfully held together as a unit, it appropriated most of Asia Minor, including Nicaea, from the Byzantine Empire and brought a resurgent Islam perilously close to Constantinople, the Byzantine capital.

• Although there is only dubious evidence for the claim that the Copts welcomed the Arab invasion in the belief that Muslim religious tolerance would be preferable to Byzantine enforced orthodoxy and repression, Coptic support for their Byzantine oppressors was probably unenthusiastic at best.