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Pages in category "1050s in the Byzantine Empire" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as legitimate rulers and exercised sovereign authority are included, to the exclusion of junior co-emperors (symbasileis) who never attained the status of sole or senior ruler, as well as of the various usurpers ...
The inhabitants of the empire, now generally termed Byzantines, thought of themselves as Romans (Romaioi).Their Islamic neighbours similarly called their empire the "land of the Romans" (Bilād al-Rūm), while the people of medieval Western Europe preferred to call them "Greeks" (Graeci), due to having a contested legacy to Roman identity and to associate negative connotations from ancient ...
Michael Dokeianos, Byzantine general [101] [102] [103] Suryavarman I, king of the Khmer Empire [104] [105] [106] Wifred II, count of Cerdanya and Berga [107] [108] Zoë, empress of the Byzantine Empire [109] [110] [111] 1051. January 22 – Ælfric Puttoc, archbishop of York; February 28 – Humfrid, archbishop of Magdeburg; March 14 – Gerard ...
The eastern empire, often referred to as the 'Byzantine Empire' by modern historians, endured for almost another millennium until its fall through the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The final empress of the east, and final Roman empress overall, was Maria of Trebizond , wife of Emperor John VIII Palaiologos .
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, [1] the establishment of an eastern capital in Constantinople by Constantine I in 330, [n ...
Year 1050 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. Events. By place Europe ... Zoë, empress of the Byzantine Empire [78] [79] [80] References
The Komnenian era was born out of a period of great difficulty and strife for the Byzantine Empire. Following a period of relative success and expansion under the Macedonian dynasty (c. 867–c. 1054), Byzantium experienced several decades of stagnation and decline, which culminated in a vast deterioration in the military, territorial, economic and political situation of the Byzantine Empire ...