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    Mesembria (Ancient Greek: Μεσημβρία; Doric Greek: Μεσαμβρία, romanized: Mesambria) was an important Greek city in ancient Thrace. It was situated on the...
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  • Mesembria, modern Nesebar, is an ancient Greek city in Thrace, on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. Mesembria or Messembria or Mesambria may also refer...
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    Nesebar (redirect from Mesembria (Pontus))
    as Mesembria, the town became a Greek colony when settled by Dorians from Megara at the beginning of the 6th century BC, then known as Mesembria. It...
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  • Battle of Mesembria Part of the Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars Belligerents First Bulgarian Empire  Byzantine Empire Commanders and leaders Unknown Leo V Strength...
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  • In Greek mythology, Mesembria (Ancient Greek: Μεσημβρία, romanized: Mesêmbria, lit. 'midday'), also spelled Messembria, was the sixth Hora (Hour) who...
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    Mesambria (Ancient Greek: Μεσαμβρία), or Mesembria (Μεσημβρία), was an ancient Greek city located in ancient Thrace, on the coast of the Black Sea. According...
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  • river Shabla Dere, a place that was previously identified with the old Mesembria. These findings include, among others, a sanctuary of Apollo of the Archaic...
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  • (Hour of Music), Gymnastica (Hour of Exercise), Nymphe (Hour of Bath), Mesembria (Noon), Sponde (Libation), Elete (Hour of Prayer), Acte (Hour of Pleasure)...
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    of land to the north of Constantinople that extended from the town of Mesembria in the north to Derkos in the south. It also included the port of Selymbria...
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  • Bulgarian Empire. At the time of Helena's birth, Demetrios was the Despot of Mesembria, not being appointed as the Despot of the Morea until 1449. In her time...
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    2003, page 271, "The Thracians of... those who live beyond Apollonia and Mesembria, known as the Scyrmiadae and Nipsaeans, surren- dered without fighting;...
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    Mesembria in Thrace and Constantine considered the idea that he and Demetrios could switch places, Constantine becoming the new governor in Mesembria...
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    the Palaiologan period were sometimes translated as duchies: the Morea, Mesembria, Selymbria and Thessaloniki. The Greek rank of their holders, however...
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    with the Aegean coast, as well as with the port-cities of Apollonia, Mesembria and Odessos on the Black Sea, and with the central Thracian plain, which...
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    belongs to the barbarians, while others to be a Greek colony of Mesembria. BUL1. Mesembria BUL2. Odessos BUL3. Apollonia / Antheia BUL4. Agathopolis BUL5...
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  • (Hour of Music), Gymnastica (Hour of Exercise), Nymphe (Hour of Bath), Mesembria (Noon), Sponde (Libation), Elete (Hour of Prayer), Acte (Hour of Pleasure)...
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    Aristotle, indicate that Aesop was born around 620 BCE in the Greek colony of Mesembria. A number of later writers from the Roman imperial period (including Phaedrus...
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    appointed Apostolic Delegate to Turkey and Greece and titular archbishop of Mesembria, Bulgaria. He became known in Turkey's predominantly Muslim society as...
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  • gymnastics/exercise Nymphe (Νυμφή), the morning hour of ablutions (bathing, washing) Mesembria (Μεσημβρία), noon Sponde (Σπονδή), libations poured after lunch Elete...
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    as: Maistros, Makri (and Agia Paraskevi Beach), Palagia, Loutra, Nipsa, Mesembria, Avas, Amfitriti, Aisymi, Dikella and Apalos. Additional routes connect...
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    Iasos, Pergamon, Selinus, Tegea, Thoricus, Dion (in Macedonia) Lykosoura, Mesembria, Enna, and Samothrace. Probably the earliest Amphictyony centred on the...
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    died in spring 814, Leo V defeated the Bulgarians in the environs of Mesembria (Nesebar) and the two states concluded a 30-year peace in 815. According...
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    Gymnastica the morning hour of gymnastics Nymphe the morning hour of bathing Mesembria noon Sponde libations poured after lunch Elete prayer Acte or ?Cypris...
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  • Attica, Greece Megara Hublaea near Augusta, eastern Sicily destroyed Mesembria Black Sea coast of Bulgaria Nesebar Menebria, Mesimvria (Μεσήμβρια), Mesimvria...
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    elsewhere for its preservation. Reputed relics of St Theodore were taken from Mesembria by a Venetian admiral in 1257 and, after being first placed in a Venetian...
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  • nun in the monastery in Mesembria (today Nesebar) and take the name Matiasa. She died around 1399 and was buried in Mesembria. Nothing else is known about...
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    its entirety. This accounts for the fact that when the Bulgarians took Mesembria and Debeltos in 814, they captured 36 siphōns and even quantities of the...
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  • expedition proved to be a failure, because of strong northern winds near Mesembria. Telerig was aware of the increased presence of spies in the capital Pliska...
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  • (Hour of Music), Gymnastica (Hour of Exercise), Nymphe (Hour of Bath), Mesembria (Noon), Sponde (Libation), Elete (Hour of Prayer), Acte (Hour of Pleasure)...
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    Eastern Orthodox church in the eastern Bulgarian town of Nesebar (medieval Mesembria), on the Black Sea coast of Burgas Province. Part of the Ancient Nesebar...
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