The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman ... of Eight Ways to Run the Country and a protodeacon of the Orthodox Church. Despite domestic and international opposition, the president ...

Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system ... protecting the Christian Orthodox Church, the Byzantine cities had plumbing which was still ...

Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

One of the most important shifts in history was the spread of Christianity by the Greeks from the Byzantine Empire into Eastern Europe.

The rooms were located beneath the Church of ... In the Byzantine Empire, it was known as the rite of Divine Liturgy, which is still practiced in Eastern Orthodox churches today.

Assyrians are Christians. They belong to three main Assyrian churches: 1) The Assyrian Church of the East ("Nestorian"), established in 33 A.D. by Theodos, Thomas, and Bartholomew; 2) the Syriac ...

Situated in the heart of Turkey’s Pontic Mountains, the Panagia Sumela Monastery, often referred to as the “Monastery on the ...

The head of the Eastern Orthodox Church has criticised the proposal ... then known as Constantinople - was the capital of the Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire.

Built 1,500 years ago as an Orthodox Christian cathedral ... which has endured since the 6th century, outlasting the Byzantine empire and the Ottoman era. Now, once again, it will be a mosque.