• John of Nikiû (fl. 680-690) was an Egyptian Coptic bishop of Nikiû (Pashati) in the Nile Delta and general administrator of the monasteries of Upper Egypt...
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    weapons of war perished!"' as John of Nikiu puts it. Theodore hurried his troops up the Nile while Anastasius and Theodosius rushed from Nikiû to Babylon...
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    John the Evangelist, John the Elder, and John of Patmos. Although the authorship of the Johannine works has traditionally been attributed to John the...
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  • Antonius George Elmacin Ibn Abd-el-Hakem Imam Al-Suyuti Iris Habib Elmasry John of Nikiû Manetho Menassa Youhanna Raouf Abbas Rifa'a el-Tahtawi Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa...
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    the Coptic monophysite bishop John of Nikiû likened Empress Theodora, consort of Justinian, to four prominent figures of Roman history (Romulus, Numa,...
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    Later historian John of Nikiû also tells a similar story. Even later historian Byzantinist Fr. Adrian Fortescue, says that the mob of Christian Parabalanies...
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    victorious." John of Nikiû has the most detailed account of the downfall, but his story is regarded as improbable and unreliable. John relates that Martina...
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    Old Great Bulgaria (category Medieval history of Russia)
    Florin Curta, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0521815398, p. 78. John of Nikiû, Chronicle Golden 1992, p. 245. Golden 2011, p. 145. Fiedler 2008, p...
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    Marina Severa (category Burials at the Church of the Holy Apostles)
    different names for her. John Malalas, the Chronicon Paschale and John of Nikiû name her "Marina" while all other sources call her "Severa". Marina Severa...
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    violence." Many Byzantine commanders in Nikiû fled to Alexandria, leaving Domentianus and a small garrison to defend Nikiû. The next year and a half were spent...
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    ˺ "O Zachariah! Indeed, We give you the good news of ˹the birth of˺ a son, whose name will be John—a name We have not given to anyone before." He wondered...
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    السلمي, romanized: Yuḥana al-Sêlmi), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites, was a 6th–7th century Christian monk at the...
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  • the defence of Egypt during the Arab conquest, and served as the last Roman governor of Egypt from 21 March to 17 September 642. John of Nikiû mentions that...
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    traditionally identified him with John the Apostle, John of Patmos, and John the Presbyter, although there is no consensus on how many of these may actually be the...
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  • palace and the tomb in her last days. Strabo and John (Bishop of Nikiu) place her palace on the island of Antirhodos. Plutarch and Suetonius say that Augustus...
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  • 354-355 John of Nikiû, "Chronicle," LXXXVI.1-11 Donna Kossy, Kooks Charles, Robert H. (2007) [1916]. The Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu: Translated...
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  • populace of Alexandria may be found in the writings of the seventh-century Egyptian Coptic bishop John of Nikiû, who alleges in his Chronicle that Hypatia had...
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  • Zawyat Razin (redirect from Nikiû)
    saved, rescued one') known in Antiquity as Nikiû, Nikiou or Nikious (Ancient Greek: Νικιους, lit. 'the one of Nikias (personal name)', Coptic: ⲛⲓⲕⲉⲩⲥ, Latin:...
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    recorded by Polybius. John of Nikiû wrote in the 7th century CE about a people known as Arbanitai in the Greek translation of the manuscript. In the...
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    Dymphna (category Christian female saints of the Middle Ages)
    O'Hanlon, John (1875). Lives of the Irish Saints. Vol. 5. Dublin: James Duffy and Sons. p. 362. [T]he feast of the Decollation [i.e. Beheading] of St. Dympna...
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    the Black". Life of the Spirit (1946-1964). 19 (214): 36–38. doi:10.1017/S0269359300000069. ISSN 0269-3593. JSTOR 43706454. Wortley, John (1996). "DE LATRONE...
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    John S. Derr and Michael A. Persinger propose a possible cause of the lights themselves in Tectonic Strain Theory, the idea that the occurrence of earthquakes...
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    Simon the Tanner (category Burials at the Church of the Holy Virgin (Babylon El-Darag))
    Orthodox saint associated with the story of the moving the Mokattam Mountain in Cairo, Egypt, during the rule of the Muslim Fatimid Caliph al-Muizz Lideenillah...
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    as one of the apostles. The Gospel of John recounts Philip's calling as a disciple of Jesus. Philip is described as a disciple from the city of Bethsaida...
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    weapons of war perished!"' as John of Nikiu puts it. Theodore hurried his troops up the Nile while Anastasius and Theodosius rushed from Nikiû to Babylon...
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  • himself disappeared. Socrates of Constantinople states that Moses of Crete fled, while the Chronicle of John of Nikiû claims that he perished in the...
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    brother of John the Apostle. James is described as one of the first disciples to join Jesus. The Synoptic Gospels state that James and John were with...
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    Sais, Egypt (category Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt)
    between the Rashidun Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire, according to John of Nikiû. It remained a pagarchy and Christian bishopric at least through the...
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    فيلوباتير مرقوريوس | أبو سيفين". Ruskin, John; Bryan, Taylor (1894). St. Mark's Rest, Lectures on art, Elements of perspective. p. 170. Riches, Sam; Salih...
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    the eighth heaven. List of angels in theology Parry, Ken; Melling, David J.; Brady, Dimitri; Griffith, Sidney H.; Healey, John F. (8 November 2000). The...
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