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...After the death of the Arian Emperor Valens, the synod of Antioch in 379 asked Gregory to help resurrect Constantinople to Nicene orthodoxy. While the most important churches were still headed by Arian bishops, Gregory transformed his cousin's villa into the Anastasia chapel. From this little chapel he delivered five powerful di...

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...Cyril of Alexandria was the leading voice of Nicene orthodoxy in the Christological controversies between Constantinople (381) and Chalcedon (451). Assuming the mantle of the Cappadotian fathers, he answered the auguments of Nestorius who had changed the liturgy of Constantinople by altering the prayer which referred to Mary as t...

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...nued to observe the Julian calendar. In 1923, a Conference of Orthodox Churches in Constantinople reduced the number of leap years every 900 years ...

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... doctrine, and consequently all Millenarians without distinction. This is the first of Constantinople, being the second Ecumenical, that which added... ...ous, and consequently the Millenarian reign. Without having recourse to the council of Constantinople, which does not speak a word concerning the M... ... Neither in the Florentine, Lateran, nor Tridentian. 63 The words which the Council of Constantinople added to the symbol of Nice is no ground of o...

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...hop of Mopsuesta, did not occur in the West but in the East, not in Rome but in Constantinople. And lastly, because, of the sixty propositions extra... ...it is neither known that this general accusation was laid before the council of Constantinople, nor that the council spoke one word thereon, for the...

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...investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...e XV century, the Ottoman Empire developed such a strong military force, thus in May 1453 the Sultan Mahomed II, succeeded to conquer the fortress of Constantinople after few weeks of besiege, generating the fall of the great Byzantine Empire, another important administrative and military structure of the world’s history. This resounding success, made the Sultan to fully h...

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...les. In The Law of Civilisation and Decay (1895), Adams noted that as new population centers emerged in the west, centers of world trade shifted from Constantinople to Venice to Amsterdam to London. He predicted in America’s Economic Supremacy (1900) that New York would become the centre for world trade. The Theory of Social Revolutions was written in 1913. (Wikipedia)...

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... were mercenaries at the service of competing factions in Byzantium (Thrace versus Constantinople). Orhan wanted to cut into this lucrative busines... ...ned with the three centuries old schism between the Roman Church and the Church in Constantinople. John V has begged for help for more than a decad... ...the Ottomans, their former mercenaries. When emperor John V united the churches of Constantinople and Rome in a vain and impetuous effort to secure... ...man rulers for centuries to come. In 1449 the sultan Mehmed II prepared to assault Constantinople. The West wringed its hands but provided no mater... ...ut provided no material or military help. The union of the two churches - Rome and Constantinople - was celebrated in the magnificent church of in ... ...ine, the last emperor, fought, on foot, at one of the gates and was seen no more. Constantinople was plundered and savaged for three long days and... ...o be the most enduring element in the Byzantine world, and he gave the Patriarch of Constantinople an unprecedented measure of temporal authority by...

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...—more than thirteen times that of Paris—Cordoba was on its way to succeed Constantinople as the largest and most prosperous city in Europe. Islam‘... ...million—more than thirteen times that of Paris—and the city would succeed Constantinople as the largest and most prosperous city in Europe. Islam’s...

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...—more than thirteen times that of Paris—Cordoba was on its way to succeed Constantinople as the largest and most prosperous city in Europe. Islam‘s ... ...million—more than thirteen times that of Paris—and the city would succeed Constantinople as the largest and most prosperous city in Europe. Islam’s...

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...ent rebelliousness and were applied mainly to the urban minority (for instance, in Constantinople). The Church was an accomplice of the Turkish oc... ...ndscape. Thus, for instance, though officially owing allegiance to the patriarch in Constantinople and the Orthodox "oikumene", both Serb and Bulgar... ...ally it was a clash of authorities and interests - the Pope versus the patriarch of Constantinople, the Romans versus the Greeks and Slavs. Matters ...

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...November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied by a Translation fr... ... be consulted. Thanks are also due to Dr. Louisos Iliou, of Robert College, Constantinople, for kind suggestions concerning the translation. CON...

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...be a right artist? Constantine, the sonne of Helen, founded the Empire of Constantinople, and so, many ages after, Constantine the sonne of Helen en... ...wherewith he got his living. There have in my time two men beene seene in Constantinople, both at once upon one horse, and who in his speediest runni... ...avoured to advance idolatrie. And to attaine his purpose, having found in Constantinople the people very loose, and at ods with the Prelates of the ... ... this point, when I call Mahomet to remembrance (I meane him that subdued Constantinople, and who brought the final extermination of the name of Græ...

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...s appointment to the post of sec- retary to the United States em- bassy nt Constantinople. Hesailed in August from New York for Bremen to travel on th... ...st from New York for Bremen to travel on the continent befoi-o arriving at Constantinople on October 1. '04—The engagement has been announced of MissM...

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...Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important primary historical resource for the study of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide. During this genocide, approximately 1,500,000 Armenians living i...

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... the Navy bombarding a way for us up the Straits and along the coast-line of the Sea of Marmora, until after a brief campaign we entered triumphantly Constantinople, there to meet the Russian Army, which would link up with ourselves to form part of a great chain encircling and throttling the Central Empires. . . We little appreciated the difficulties of the task,” he conti...

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... the steppes of the North Caucasus, and then went down to the city of Tskhumi. Leaving Tskhumi, trade caravans sailed across the Black Sea to land at Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Another important road went from the Lower Volga Region along the western shore of the Caspian Sea, via Derbent known as the Caspian Iron Gate, to the south, to ancient Al...

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...attern in 1950, or that there will be a through railway connection between Constantinople and Bombay and between Baku and Bombay in the next half-cent... ...of the value of kingship, of nationality, of the destiny of such cities as Constantinople, which from their very beginning have never had any sort of ... ...s not too afraid of the precedent of Sarajevo, may make a great entry into Constantinople, with an effect of conquering what is after all only a tempo... ... or unity. Consider, for example, Central Africa, Tyrone, Albania, Bombay, Constantinople or Transylvania. Here are regions and cities with either no ... ...irdly, there are the regions and cities possessing no nationality, such as Constantinople or Bombay, which mani- festly appertain not to one nation bu... ...there will still be a France, an Ireland, a Germany, a Jugo-Slav region, a Constantinople, a Rajputana, and a Bengal. I do not mean that these are abs... ... go, it would at least take with it nearly every crown between Hamburg and Constantinople. The German kings would vanish like a wisp of smoke. Suppose... ...West and America to Bagdad and India is by Mont Cenis, Trieste, Serbia and Constantinople, as their North European line to India is through Russia by ... ...th European line to India is through Russia by Baku. And that brings us to Constantinople. Constantinople is not a national city; it is now, and it ha...

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...be seen as Ulysses surveyed and noted in ten years. Malta, Athens, Smyrna, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Cairo were to be visited, and everybody was to b... ...ers to embark forthwith in the “Tagus,” which was to early us to Malta and Constantinople. So we took leave of this famous Rock—this great blunderbuss... ... on board one of the Peninsular and Oriental vessels, and try one dip into Constantinople or Smyrna. Walk into the bazaar, and the East is unveiled to... ...h as at Putney, and every- body happy and excited at the thought of seeing Constantinople to-morrow. We had music on board all the way from Smyrna. A ... ...uld almost fancy the proctors must hear, and send us all home. CHAPTER VII:CONSTANTINOPLE WHEN WE AROSE at sunrise to see the famous entry to Constant... ...s any objects of nature we have seen with maturer eyes. W ell, the view of Constantinople is as fine as any of Stanfield’s best theatrical pictures, s... ... I puzzle my brains and find no better likeness for the place. The view of Constantinople resembles the ne plus ultra of a Stanfield di- orama, with a... ...s useless:and you have no idea, from this description, of the effect which Constantinople produces on the mind. But if you were never affected by a th... ...s gowns are made of silk and velvet:the wild ugli- ness of the interior of Constantinople or Pera has a charm of its own, greatly more amusing than ro...