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By the late 14th century, the Ottomans laid their eyes on Thessalonica. The civil war in 1376-1382 weakened the Byzantines, allowing the Ottomans to expand their territories. Manuel II, the son of John V Palaiologos, rebelled against his father and established an independent regime in Thessalonica in November 1382. Maneul from the city as a ...
7th-century mosaic from the Cathedral of St. Demetrius in Thessalonica, depicting the saint with the city's archbishop (left) and the eparch (right). The second book of the Miracles of Saint Demetrius names Perboundos, the "king of the Rhynchinoi", [a] as a powerful ruler, who was sufficiently assimilated to be able to speak Greek, had relations with Thessalonica to the point of maintaining a ...
The Edict of Thessalonica (Greek: Έδικτο της Θεσσαλονίκης), issued on 27 February AD 380 by Theodosius I, made Nicene Christianity [note 1] the state church of the Roman Empire. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It condemned other Christian creeds such as Arianism as heresies of "foolish madmen," and authorized their punishment .
The Armenian sources, which also have problems of reliability, exalt Tiridates' skills and courage and state that he was a very athletic young man and possessed immense strength; one day he would have saved Licinius (whose identification with the future emperor is not certain) from an attempted lynching by stopping the attackers with his arm alone.
According to the city's metropolitan bishop, Symeon (in office 1416/17–1429), both he and Despot Andronikos sent repeated pleas for aid to Constantinople, but the imperial government was short of resources and preoccupied with its own problems. Eventually, a single unnamed commander was sent to the city, but he brought neither men nor money ...
The problem was finally settled through the wide-ranging land redistribution campaign undertaken by the governments of Eleftherios Venizelos. During World War I , during the National Schism in 1916–17, Thessaly served as a buffer zone between the pro- Entente Provisional Government of National Defence , led by Venizelos in Thessaloniki, and ...
Theodorus Gaza (Greek: Θεόδωρος Γαζῆς, Theodoros Gazis; Italian: Teodoro Gaza; Latin: Theodorus Gazes), also called Theodore Gazis or by the epithet Thessalonicensis [2] (in Latin) and Thessalonikeus [3] (in Greek) (c. 1398 – c. 1475), was a Greek humanist [4] and translator of Aristotle, one of the Greek scholars who were the leaders of the revival of learning in the 15th ...
The Kingdom of Thessalonica (Greek: Βασίλειον τῆς Θεσσαλονίκης, romanized: Vasílion tis Thessaloníkis) was a short-lived Crusader State founded after the Fourth Crusade over conquered Byzantine lands in today's territory of Northern Greece and Thessaly.