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The Varangians ( / vəˈrændʒiənz /) [1] [2] [3] were Viking [4] conquerors, traders and settlers, mostly from present-day Sweden. [5] [6] [7] The Varangians settled in the territories of present-day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine from the 8th and 9th centuries, and established the state of Kievan Rus' as well as the principalities of Polotsk ...
The problem of two emperors mostly concerns the medieval dispute between the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire (yellow) and the Byzantine Empire (purple) as to which ruler was the legitimate Roman emperor, 12th century borders. The problem of two emperors or two-emperor problem (deriving from the German term Zweikaiserproblem, Greek ...
The Byzantine Empire's history is generally periodised from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. From the 3rd to 6th centuries, the Greek East and Latin West of the Roman Empire gradually diverged, marked by Diocletian's (r. 284–305) formal partition of its administration in 285, the establishment of an eastern capital in Constantinople by Constantine I in 330, and the ...
The Macedonian dynasty ( Greek: Μακεδονική Δυναστεία) ruled the Byzantine Empire from 867 to 1056, following the Amorian dynasty. During this period, the Byzantine state reached its greatest extent since the Early Muslim conquests, and the Macedonian Renaissance in letters and arts began. The dynasty was named after its ...
When the Holy Roman Empire took part in the Crusades, a war flag was flown alongside the black-gold imperial banner. This flag, known as the "Saint George Flag", was a white cross on a red background: the reverse of the St George's Cross used as the flag of Lombardy and England. [1] Red and white were also colours of the Hanseatic League (13th ...
Flag Country Date of adoption Notes Flag of Ibiza: Spain: Flag of the island of Ibiza: Flag of Mallorca: Spain: Flag of the island of Mallorca: Wiphala: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru: Flag used as the symbol of various native peoples around the area of Andes in South America. Historically associated with the Inca Empire
English: The flag of Constantinople under the Palaeologoi, from the Spanish Conoscimento de todos los Reinos atlas of ca. 1350, with the corrupted fire steels of the Conoscimento de todos los Reinos. The atlas author has mixed the Byzantine flag with the flag of the Genoese colony of Galata
Byzantine dress changed considerably over the thousand years of the Empire, but was essentially conservative. Popularly, Byzantine dress remained attached to its classical Greek roots with most changes and different styles being evidenced in the upper strata of Byzantine society always with a touch of the Hellenic environment.