单词 | byzantine empire |
释义 | > as lemmasByzantine Empire Byzantine Empire n. the empire in south-eastern Europe and south-western Asia formed from the eastern half of the Roman Empire and having Constantinople (Byzantium) as its capital.The Roman Empire was permanently divided into eastern and western halves in a.d. 395; cf. Eastern Empire at eastern adj. 6b.The term Eastern Roman Empire is now often applied to the period prior to the Arab conquests of the 7th cent., which permanently reduced the empire's size, with Byzantine Empire being reserved for the period from then until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. ΚΠ 1693 C. Blount Oracles of Reason 100 The Goths, who at that time possessed of Italy, Spain, Afric and other Provinces, were formidable to the Bizantine Empire. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. lii. 445 Thirty thousand Persians, who had obtained service and settlement in the Byzantine empire. 1820 T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily II. i. 21 His pretended skill in astrology and predictions of the fall of the Byzantine empire. 1881 Athenæum 8 Oct. 465/3 The gradual Hellenization of the Byzantine Empire in the language, customs, and the national character. 1931 A. W. Seaby Art in Life of Mankind 80 The Sasanians were as bitter enemies of the Christian eastern or Byzantine empire as they had been of pagan Rome. 2000 A. Louth in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 87/2 The ‘official’ line of Byzantine theology..and the monastic tradition converge in the last major theological controversy of the Byzantine empire. < as lemmas |
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