Michael VIII Palaiologos or Palaeologus (Greek: Μιχαὴλ Δούκας Ἄγγελος Κομνηνὸς Παλαιολόγος, romanized: Mikhaēl Doukas Angelos Komnēnos Palaiologos; 1224...

Constantine VIII (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος, Kōnstantinos; 960 – 11/12 November 1028) was de jure Byzantine emperor from 962 until his death. He was the younger...

Ioannis Rallis (Greek: Ιωάννης Δ. Ράλλης; 1878 – 26 October 1946) was the third and last collaborationist prime minister of Greece during the Axis occupation...

II and Constantine VIII Basil II (Βασίλειος Β') the Bulgar-slayer (958–1025, ruled 976–1025) – son of Romanos II Constantine VIII (Κωνσταντῖνος Η') (960-1028...

Ioannis Plytzanopoulos (Greek: Ιωάννης Πλυτζανόπουλος, 1888–1950s) was a colonel in the Greek Army and leading collaborationist with Nazi Germany during...

Byzantine noble and senior official in Constantinople when the dying Constantine VIII forced him to divorce his wife and marry the emperor's daughter Zoë. Upon...

"chickpea"), was twice King of Ptolemaic Egypt. He was the son of Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra III. He reigned as Ptolemy Philometor Soter in joint rule with...

ISBN 0-9593626-2-2 Downey, G., ed. (1940). Chronicle of John Malalas, books VIII—XVIII. University of Chicago Press. E. Jeffreys, B. Croke, and R. Scott (eds...

when Zoe was 47, and her father acceded the Byzantine throne as Constantine VIII. As he had no sons, Constantine hoped to continue the dynasty by marrying...

John XVI (c. 945 – c. 1001; born Greek: Ιωάννης Φιλάγαθος, Ioannis Philagathos; Italian: Giovanni Filagato; Latin: Johannes Philagathus) was an antipope...

an active role and occupied many offices of high rank. In 1259, Michael VIII Palaiologos became co-emperor to the young John IV Laskaris through a coup...

remained at Basel, still claiming to be the Council. They elected Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, as Pope Felix V. He is considered an antipope, and was the...

family of the powerful counts of Tusculum, succeeding his brother, Benedict VIII. Papal relations with the Patriarchate of Constantinople soured during John...

Venetians in the Morea. In 1422 and again in 1429 he was sent by Emperor John VIII Palaiologos as an envoy to the Ottoman Sultan Murad II. At the time he had...

against the Serbs and Turks. Constantine was the third son of Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos (r. 1259–1282) and Theodora Palaiologina. He was born in autumn...

documentary annotation of this church is found in a 1018 bull by Pope Benedict VIII. For centuries it was attached to the nearby Benedictine monastery. The present...

Nikephoros II Phokas Byzantine emperor 969–976 (with Basil II and Constantine VIII as junior emperors) Succeeded by Basil II Military offices Preceded by Nikephoros...

preserved in the Epistolae Ioannis VIII. During the solemn divine service in St. Peter's church in Rome in 879, Pope John VIII gave his blessing to the...

The Caretaker Cabinet of Ioannis Sarmas was sworn in on 26 May 2023 and dissolved on 27 June 2023. After an inconclusive election held on 21 May 2023...

notable Byzantine aristocrat and general. He served under emperors Michael VIII Palaiologos and Andronikos II Palaiologos in the Balkans, fighting against...

Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, and brothers of the final two emperors John VIII and Constantine XI. Demetrios had a complicated relationship with his brothers...

almost 200 years. Theodora was the youngest daughter of Emperor Constantine VIII. After Theodora's father died in 1028, her older sister Zoë co-ruled with...

2013 at the Wayback Machine, Seimas law database, 12 October 2000, Law no. VIII-2018. Retrieved 3 June 2006. (in Lithuanian) Indrė Makaraitytė, Europos Sąjungos...

on 25 March 1259, at Nicaea. He was the eldest surviving son of Michael VIII Palaiologos and Theodora Palaiologina, grandniece of John III Doukas Vatatzes...

Machine Macan, note to Herodotus VIII, 25 Herodotus VII, 228 Archived 2 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine Herodotus VIII, 25 Archived 14 September 2020...

1295 R), and it is also known in scholarship under its label P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309. Originally discovered by anonymous tomb raiders as part of a mummy wrapping...

Θεοδώρα Βατάτζαινα), was the empress consort of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos. Theodora was a daughter of John Doukas and Eudokia Angelina...

On 26 December, Houthis fired several naval missiles at the MSC United VIII in the Red Sea after it rejected three warning calls. She reported several...

(2004), p. 131. ἀπὸ τοῦ ταῖς ναυσὶ προσπλεῖσθαι, Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.368. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition. Pausanias...

announce the election of Giovanni Battista Cybo, who took the name of Innocent VIII. In announcing the name of the newly elected pontiff, the new pontiff's birth...