Nea Moni (Greek: Νέα Μονή, lit. "New Monastery") is an 11th-century monastery on the island of Chios that has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage...
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11th-century monastery of Nea Moni, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Chios regional unit, which...
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Daphni Monastery (category Burial sites of the De la Roche family)
Monastery, along with the famous monasteries of Hosios Loukas near Delphi and Nea Moni on the island of Chios, are designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites...
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Hosios Loukas (redirect from Monastery of Hossios Luckas)
along with the monasteries of Nea Moni and Daphnion. The monastery of Hosios Loukas is situated at a scenic site on the slopes of Mount Helicon. It was founded...
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"Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2019-12-29. Demus, Otto. (1988). The mosaic decoration of San...
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the Chios massacre two months earlier. Ottoman admiral Nasuhzade Ali Pasha, who led the Chios massacre. Human skeletal remains of the massacre in Nea Moni...
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pillaging by the Ottoman invaders. Leonard of Chios made accounts of the atrocities that followed the fall of Constantinople stated the Ottoman invaders...
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Byzantine architecture (category Culture of the Byzantine Empire)
of the period, including the Cattolica di Stilo in southern Italy (9th century), the monastery church of Hosios Lukas in Greece (c. 1000), Nea Moni of...
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Byzantine Greece (redirect from History of Byzantine Greece)
View of Hosios Loukas monastery, an example of Byzantine architecture during the Macedonian Renaissance Mosaics of Nea Moni of Chios Monastery of Saint...
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of Hosios Loukas, representative of the Macedonian Renaissance Frescoes of Hosios Loukas Mosaics of Nea Moni of Chios "David playing the harp", from the...
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The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only...
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Aegean Sea (redirect from Sea of Aegea)
Monastery of Saint John the Theologian and the Cave of the Apocalypse on Patmos, the Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos in Samos, the Nea Moni of Chios, the...
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The Code of Justinian (Latin: Codex Justinianus, Justinianeus or Justiniani) is one part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the codification of Roman law ordered...
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Greek fire (redirect from Kallinikos of Heliopolis)
a couple of years before the supposed arrival of Kallinikos at Constantinople. If this is not due to chronological confusion of the events of the siege...
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Monastery Monastery of Komnenion Monastery of Saint George, Skyros Moni Toplou Nea Moni of Chios Preveli Saint Ignatios Monastery Monastery of Saint John the...
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Christianization of Kievan Rus' was a long and complicated process that took place in several stages. In 867, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople told...
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Macedonian Renaissance (category History of Macedonia (region))
blossoming of Byzantine culture in the 9th–11th centuries, under the eponymous Macedonian dynasty (867–1056), following the upheavals and transformations of the...
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A sakellarios (Greek: σακελλάριος) or sacellarius is the title of an official entrusted with administrative and financial duties (cf. sakellē or sakellion...
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Latin Empire (redirect from Latin Empire of Constantinople)
also referred to as the Latin Empire of Constantinople, was a feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands captured from...
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Anavatos (category Populated places in Chios)
on the Greek island of Chios, 16 km from Chios (town). Created in the Byzantine era, probably by workers of the Nea Moni of Chios, the village was abandoned...
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Patriarchal and Synodic Act of 4 September 1928: Metropolis of Alexandroupolis: Anthimos Koukouridis (2004–) Metropolis of Chios, Psara and Inousses: Markos...
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Mount Athos (redirect from The Holy Mountain of Our Lady)
community of Mount Athos, which is ecclesiastically under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. The remainder of the peninsula...
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Hagia Sophia (redirect from Great Church of Saint Sophia)
cathedral of Constantinople for the Byzantine Empire between 532 and 537, and was designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles...
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Greek art (redirect from Art of Greece)
Museum of Rhodes Archaeological Museum of Epidaurus Archaeological Museum of Olympia Delphi Archaeological Museum Nea Moni of Chios Florina Museum of Modern...
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East–West Schism (redirect from Schism of 1054)
Schism or the Schism of 1054, is the break of communion between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1054. A series of ecclesiastical differences...
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semi-domes, three of which are visible in this image. They in turn have smaller semi-domes hanging off them. Mosaics in Nea Moni of Chios, 11th century conch...
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The sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Crusaders sacked and destroyed most of Constantinople...
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Byzantine art (category Art by period of creation)
the Daphni Monastery near Athens and Nea Moni on Chios. There was a revival of interest in the depiction of subjects from classical Greek mythology (as...
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altar retable of the Basilica di San Marco in Venice. It is universally recognized as one of the most refined and accomplished works of Byzantine enamel...
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Constantinople (redirect from City of Constantine)
Monastery of the Christ the Benefactor Hagia Irene Saint John the Forerunner by-the-Dome Church of Theotokos Kyriotissa Church of Saint Andrew in Krisei Nea Ekklesia...
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