• Donald MacGillivray Nicol, FBA, MRIA (4 February 1923 – 25 September 2003) was an English Byzantinist. Nicol was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, to a Church...
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  • played a heroic part in the final defense of Constantinople; according to Donald Nicol, he commanded a unit of 700 men stationed in the neighborhood of the...
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    Donald Ninian Nicol JP DL (3 October 1843 – 27 July 1903) was a British barrister and politician, who served as the Unionist Party MP for Argyllshire...
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  • Supreme Court Donald W. Munro (1916–1998), Canadian politician Donald "Don" Muraco (born 1939), American retired wrestler Donald Nicol (1843–1903), Scottish...
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  • to believe that the son was Demetrios. According to the Byzantinist Donald Nicol, "This problem can hardly be satisfactory solved on the basis of the...
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  • the Tarchaneiotes. The origin of the family's surname, according to Donald Nicol, "lies between romantic guesswork and philological conjecture." Prince...
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    247. Nicol 1992, p. 8. Nicol 1992, p. 9. Nicol 1992, pp. 9–11. Nicol 1992, p. 11. Nicol 1992, p. 14. Nicol 1992, pp. 12–13. Nicol 1992, p. 13. Nicol 1992...
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  • Davidson Nicol (1924–1994), Sierra Leone academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet Donald Nicol (1843–1903), Scottish politician Eduardo Nicol, Spanish-Mexican...
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  • PMID 9068444 Nicol, Donald MacGillivray (1979), Church and Society in the Last Centuries of Byzantium, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-22438-3 Nicol, Donald...
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    sought forgiveness for his father's blinding three decades earlier. As Donald Nicol notes, "The occasion must have been embarrassing for both parties, but...
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    from Byzantine Emperors, as authentic", but according to the historian Donald Nicol, "Patriotic Rumanian historians have indeed labored to show that ......
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  • _%C3%80_la_recherche_du_Plutarque_dAnna The Immortal Emperor, by Donald Nicol. Nicol, Donald M. (1994). The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250–1500. Cambridge...
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    Kantakouzenos was the son of Michael Kantakouzenos, governor of the Morea; Donald Nicol speculates that he may have been born after his father's death and raised...
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  • Viscount of Rocaberti, and next to an unidentified son of Simeon Uroš, whom Donald Nicol suggests was Stephen of Pharsalos. This arrangement came close to being...
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    On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump, the then-former president of the United States and then-presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential...
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    silver-mines in the hills behind, and famed for the beauty of its princesses." Donald Nicol echoes Runciman's observations: "Most of the emperors were blessed with...
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  • himself faced with a powerful coalition that, according to the Byzantinist Donald Nicol, "seemed likely to threaten the possession not only of Thessalonica but...
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    Family tree of Roman emperors History of the Byzantine Empire Historian Donald Nicol writes, "Hereditary succession to the throne was a custom or a convenience...
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    the second wife of David of Trebizond, the last Emperor of Trebizond. Donald Nicol has argued that Helena was the sister of George Palaiologos Kantakouzenos...
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  • The Rev. Donald MacNicol (Scottish Gaelic: Domhnall MacNeacaill; 1735–1802), was a Scottish clergyman, Minister of Saddell and Lismore in Argyll, and...
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  • unnamed daughter, who married Theodore Mouzalon. Nicol 1968, p. 14. Nicol 1968, p. 15. Nicol, Donald M. (1968). The Byzantine Family of Kantakouzenos...
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    is thus portrayed as a return of Mark to his rightful resting place. Donald Nicol explained this act as "motivated as much by politics as by piety", and...
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  • was the second son of Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos and Irene Asanina. Donald Nicol believes he was born around 1326 or slightly later. Manuel is first mentioned...
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  • the Macedonian legal renaissance. According to the eminent Byzantinist Donald Nicol, Chomatenos' court at Ohrid was a rare centre of stability and law in...
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    Alexander Livingston Nicol Jr. (January 20, 1916 – July 29, 2001) was an American actor and film director. Nicol appeared in many Westerns including The...
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    185 Nicol, Byzantine Family, p. 186 Nicol, Byzantine Family, p. 184 Nicol, Byzantine Family, p. 176 Nicol, Byzantine Family, p. 176. Nicol, Donald M. (1973)...
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    Codex records a story of a conspiracy – dismissed as "slanderous" by Donald Nicol – led by Despot Andronikos to hand over the city to the Turks. The plot...
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    Obviously Michael sought allies against Charles of Anjou, but they were few. Donald Nicol lists the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, who would "loan him ships", and the...
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    Chisholm 1911. Donald M. Nicol, The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453, second edition (Cambridge: University Press, 1993), pp. 232f Nicol, Last Centuries...
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  • 1393. She was a daughter of John VI Kantakouzenos and Irene Asanina; Donald Nicol believes she was the youngest of their three daughters. She was a sister...
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