byzantine

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In antiquity, the city of Tyre was at various times Phoenician, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

We meet under a winter sun by the stone walls of a castle, which has towered over Gaziantep since the Byzantine era.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

At the edge of Europe, for example, he goes to the great Byzantine church of the Holy Wisdom, Hagia Sophia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

In the early 1000s Maria Argyropoulina, a Byzantine emperor’s niece, brought gold forks to Venice for her wedding to the Doge’s son.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025

His name was George Papadimitriou, and he was the professor of Byzantine history who had first recruited her for Oakley Street two years before.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman