The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman ... of Eight Ways to Run the Country and a protodeacon of the Orthodox Church. Military involvement in Yemen or Iran is a losing proposition.

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 ...

within the Byzantine Empire." So a great wave of iconoclastic violence swept the Orthodox Church in the years following 700. The theological debates went on for well over a century, and were very ...

The social position of Byzantine women is not easy to assess considering the vast reach of the empire and the many cultures it encompassed.

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 ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday confirmed the reopening for Muslim worship of a mosque in Istanbul converted from an ancient Byzantine Orthodox church. "The Kariye mosque in its ...