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    Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos (Greek: Νικηφόρος Κάλλιστος Ξανθόπουλος; Latinized as Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus; c. 1256 – 1335) was a Greek...
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  • Constantinople Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, Byzantine historian Nikos Xanthopoulos (1934–2023), Greek actor Petros Xanthopoulos (born 1959), Greek...
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  • Nikephoros Bryennios (or Nicephorus Bryennius; Greek: Νικηφόρος Βρυέννιος, Nikēphoros Bryennios; 1062/82–1137) was a Byzantine general, statesman and...
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    Nikephoros I or Nicephorus I (Greek: Νικηφόρος; c. 758 – 5 April 828) was a Byzantine writer and patriarch of Constantinople from 12 April 806 to 13 March...
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  • Byzantine historian, c. 1295–1360 Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, Greek ecclesiastical historian, c. 1320 Nikephoros Komnenos (c. 970 – after 1026/7)...
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    theologian Kallistos Ware (1934–2022), Metropolitan of Diokleia in Phrygia, an Orthodox assistant bishop in the UK Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, last...
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  • Constantine died around 1094, and Anna married Nikephoros Bryennios in 1097. The two had several children before Nikephoros' death around 1136. Following her father's...
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    Nicephorus Gregoras (/ˈɡrɛɡərəs/; Greek: Νικηφόρος Γρηγορᾶς, Nikēphoros Grēgoras; c. 1295 – 1360) was a Byzantine Greek astronomer, historian, and theologian...
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  • of his patriarchate is fixed by Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, at eleven years. George Akropolites and Xanthopoulos both suggest the throne was vacant...
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    Black Death epidemic. Maria Kantakouzene (dead after 1379), who married Nikephoros II Orsini of Epirus. Kantakouzenos's four-volume History was published...
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    to a "fairly early and widespread tradition". According to Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, Greek historian of the 14th century (and others), Luke's...
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  • Akropolites Theodore Skoutariotes 14th century Nicephorus Gregoras Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos John VI Kantakouzenos George Pachymeres Michael Panaretos...
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    imperial territory. The land in the east was eventually recovered by Nikephoros Phokas, who conquered Adata, in northern Syria, in 958, and by the general...
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  • and Lilith. The 14th-century Greek ecclesiastical historian Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos still told of gelloudes that "bring the infant from the bedroom...
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    which covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nikephoros I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057; it continues the chronicle...
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  • his profession in the capital. Evagrius Scholasticus and Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos describe Agathias as a rhetor ("public speaker"). The Suda...
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    date of Jesus are: Evodius in an epistle reported in part by Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos in his Ecclesiastical History II, 3 Saint Jerome described...
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    and the Chronographia, a series of biographies from emperor Basil II to Nikephoros III, which serves as a valuable source on the history of the 11th century...
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    Marcellinus Comes, Annales Michael the Syrian, Chronicle Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, Historia Ecclesiastica Priscus, History of Byzantium Pseudo-Dionysius...
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    for prayerful hope, rather than grounds for sure knowledge. Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos (1256–1335) wrote that "We should also know that when baptized...
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  • Akropolites Theodore Skoutariotes 14th century Nicephorus Gregoras Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos John VI Kantakouzenos George Pachymeres Michael Panaretos...
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    the second marriage of an emperor. This could have been the marriage of Nikephoros III with Maria of Alania in late 1078 or perhaps even the marriage of...
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    the name Heliodorus was a common one. In the 14th century, Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos expanded this narrative, relating that the work was written...
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    heaven by her Son Jesus Christ at Dormition. According to Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos in his "History of the Church," Emperor Maurice (582–602)...
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  • It would appear that the Emperor Nikephoros I incurred George's disfavour at around the same time: in 808, Nikephoros discovered a plot against him, and...
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    there. The Orthodox Synaxarion according to the tradition of Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos (c. 1320), states that after being cruelly treated by the...
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  • Akropolites Theodore Skoutariotes 14th century Nicephorus Gregoras Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos John VI Kantakouzenos George Pachymeres Michael Panaretos...
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  • Akropolites Theodore Skoutariotes 14th century Nicephorus Gregoras Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos John VI Kantakouzenos George Pachymeres Michael Panaretos...
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    Akropolites Theodore Skoutariotes 14th century Nicephorus Gregoras Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos John VI Kantakouzenos George Pachymeres Michael Panaretos...
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    narrates history from the creation of the world to the end of the reign of Nikephoros III Botaneiates (1081), sponsored by Irene Komnene, the emperor's sister-in-law...
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