Anicia Juliana was a Byzantine woman who managed to conquer the fields of architecture, using her massive wealth and noble lineage.

Following the reconquest of the Western provinces of Italy and North Africa under Justinian the Great, the empire was left ... the reign of Basil I. The Byzantine Emperors depended on the urban ...

The empire during the time of Justinian. Credit: Tataryn / Wikimedia Commons The ... possibly Leo Phokas (some have even suggested the emperor himself, Nikephoros Phokas). It was written in Greek ...

Forced conversions: Emperor Justinian (527-565) enacted laws banning Jewish religious traditions, including Hebrew scripture readings. Jews were blamed for plagues, fires, and military defeats ...

Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...

Built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian at the height of the Byzantine Empire's power, the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque has been one of the world's best-known buildings for most of the last 1,500 years.

The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires in history ... Not long after, in 535, Eastern Roman armies invaded Italy, with Emperor Justinian declaring that “the Goths have used force to take ...

first built as a Christian cathedral by Byzantine emperor Justinian in the 530s and then rebuilt in grand fashion after an earthquake and finally turned into a mosque by the conquering Sultan Mehmed ...

(Image: Courtesy Alexxx1979 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Originally, it was built as a church under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I ... Built during the Ottoman ...