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39 relations: Alexios I Komnenos, Ancient Greece, Augustus (title), Byzantine bureaucracy and aristocracy, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Empire under the Komnenos dynasty, Byzantine senate, Constantine Harmenopoulos, Constantine IX Monomachos, Constantine Keroularios, Doukas, Droungarios, Ephesus, Flavian dynasty, George Kodinos, Greek East and Latin West, Gustave Schlumberger, Hellenistic period, Honorific, Isaac Komnenos (brother of Alexios I), Komnenos, Latin, Manuel I Komnenos, Maria Skleraina, Marriage, Nobilissimus, Panhypersebastos, Paul Magdalino, Prokathemenos, Protosebastos, Roman emperor, Sebaste, Sebastohypertatos, Sebastokrator, Second Bulgarian Empire, Serbia in the Middle Ages, Sivas, Sulusaray, Temple of the Sebastoi.
- Byzantine court titles
- Byzantine imperial titles
Alexios I Komnenos
Alexios I Komnenos (Aléxios Komnēnós, c. 1057 – 15 August 1118), Latinized Alexius I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Augustus (title)
Augustus (plural Augusti;,; "majestic", "great" or "venerable") was the main title of the Roman emperors during Antiquity. Sebastos and Augustus (title) are augustus.
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Byzantine bureaucracy and aristocracy
Throughout the fifth century, Hellenistic political systems, philosophies, and theocratic Christian-Eastern concepts had gained power in the eastern Greek-speaking Mediterranean due to the intervention of important religious figures there such as Eusebius of Caesarea and Origen of Alexandria who had been key to developing the constant Christianized worldview of late antiquity.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Byzantine Empire under the Komnenos dynasty
The Byzantine Empire was ruled by emperors of the Komnenos dynasty for a period of 104 years, from 1081 to about 1185.
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Byzantine senate
The Byzantine senate or Eastern Roman senate (Σύγκλητος,, or Γερουσία) was a continuation of the Roman Senate, established in the 4th century by Constantine I. It survived for centuries, but the senate's powers varied greatly during its history and gradually diminished until its eventual disappearance in the 14th century.
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Constantine Harmenopoulos
Constantine Harmenopoulos (Κωνσταντῖνος Ἁρμενόπουλος; 1320 –) was a Byzantine jurist of Armenian descent who held the post of katholikos kritēs ("universal judge") of Thessalonica, one of the highest judicial offices in the Byzantine Empire.
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Constantine IX Monomachos
Constantine IX Monomachos (translit; 980/ 1000 – 11 January 1055) reigned as Byzantine emperor from June 1042 to January 1055.
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Constantine Keroularios
Constantine Keroularios (Κωνσταντῖνος Κηρουλάριος) was a high-ranking Byzantine official in the third quarter of the 11th century.
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Doukas
The House of Doukas (pl. Doukai; Δούκας, pl. Δούκαι, feminine form Doukaina; Δούκαινα), Latinized as Ducas, was a Byzantine Greek noble family, whose branches provided several notable generals and rulers to the Byzantine Empire in the 9th–11th centuries.
Droungarios
A droungarios, also spelled drungarios (δρουγγάριος, drungarius) and sometimes anglicized as Drungary, was a military rank of the late Roman and Byzantine empires, signifying the commander of a formation known as droungos.
Ephesus
Ephesus (Éphesos; Efes; may ultimately derive from Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.
Flavian dynasty
The Flavian dynasty, lasting from AD 69 to 96, was the second dynastic line of emperors to rule the Roman Empire following the Julio-Claudians, encompassing the reigns of Vespasian and his two sons, Titus and Domitian.
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George Kodinos
George Kodinos (Γεώργιος Κωδινός), also Pseudo-Kodinos or Codinus, is the conventional name of an anonymous late 15th-century author of late Byzantine literature.
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Greek East and Latin West
Greek East and Latin West are terms used to distinguish between the two parts of the Greco-Roman world and of medieval Christendom, specifically the eastern regions where Greek was the lingua franca (Greece, Anatolia, the southern Balkans, the Levant, and Egypt) and the western parts where Latin filled this role (Italy, Gaul, Hispania, North Africa, the northern Balkans, territories in Central Europe, and the British Isles).
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Gustave Schlumberger
Léon Gustave Schlumberger (17 October 1844 – 9 May 1929) was a French historian and numismatist who specialised in the era of the crusades and the Byzantine Empire.
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Hellenistic period
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.
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Honorific
An honorific is a title that conveys esteem, courtesy, or respect for position or rank when used in addressing or referring to a person.
Isaac Komnenos (brother of Alexios I)
Isaac Komnenos or Comnenus (Ἰσαάκιος Κομνηνός, Isaakios Komnēnos; – 1102/1104) was a notable Byzantine aristocrat and military commander in the 1070s.
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Komnenos
The House of Komnenos (pl. Komnenoi; Κομνηνός, pl. Κομνηνοί), Latinized as Comnenus (pl. Comneni), was a Byzantine Greek noble family who ruled the Byzantine Empire in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Manuel I Komnenos
Manuel I Komnenos (translit-std; 28 November 1118 – 24 September 1180), Latinized as Comnenus, also called Porphyrogenitus ("born in the purple"), was a Byzantine emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean.
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Maria Skleraina
Maria Skleraina (Greek: Μαρία Σκλήραινα; died c. 1045 CE), often referred to as the Skleraina, was the political adviser, official mistress, and potentially wife of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos.
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Marriage
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.
Nobilissimus
Nobilissimus (Latin for "most noble"), in Byzantine Greek nōbelissimos (Greek: νωβελίσσιμος),. Sebastos and Nobilissimus are Byzantine court titles and Byzantine imperial titles.
Panhypersebastos
The title of (venerable above all) was a Byzantine court title created by Alexios I Komnenos using the imperial root (the Greek translation of Augustus). Sebastos and Panhypersebastos are Byzantine court titles.
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Paul Magdalino
Paul Magdalino (born 10 May 1948) is a British Byzantinist who is Bishop Wardlaw Professor (Emeritus) of Byzantine History at the University of St Andrews.
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Prokathemenos
(the presiding one) is a Greek term for a president or chairman.
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Protosebastos
The title of protosebastos (πρωτοσέβαστος, prōtosébastos, "first sebastos") was a high Byzantine court title created by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Sebastos and protosebastos are Byzantine court titles.
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Roman emperor
The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC.
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Sebaste
Sebaste (Σεβαστή.) was a common placename in classical Antiquity.
Sebastohypertatos
(venerable one) was a Byzantine honorific title. Sebastos and Sebastohypertatos are Byzantine court titles.
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Sebastokrator
Sebastokrator (August Ruler,; sevastokrator; sebastokrator), was a senior court title in the late Byzantine Empire. Sebastos and sebastokrator are Byzantine court titles and Byzantine imperial titles.
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Second Bulgarian Empire
The Second Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state that existed between 1185 and 1396.
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Serbia in the Middle Ages
The medieval period in the history of Serbia began in the 6th century with the Slavic migrations to Southeastern Europe, and lasted until the Ottoman conquest of Serbian lands in the second half of the 15th century.
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Sivas
Sivas (Latin and Greek: Sebastia, Sebastea, Σεβάστεια, Σεβαστή) is a city in central Turkey.
Sulusaray
Sulusaray or Çiftlik, in Antiquity and the early Middle Ages known as Sebastopolis (Σεβαστούπολις) or Heracleopolis (Ἡρακλειούπολις), is a town in Tokat Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey.
Temple of the Sebastoi
The Temple of the Sebastoi in Ephesus, formerly called the Temple of Domitian, is a Roman temple dedicated to the Imperial cult of the Flavian dynasty.
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See also
Byzantine court titles
- Actuarius
- Anthypatos
- Baioulos
- Basileopator
- Caesar (title)
- Cubicularius
- Despot (court title)
- Dishypatos
- Domestic of the Schools
- Droungarios of the Watch
- Epi tes katastaseos
- Epi tes trapezes
- Hypatos
- Konostaulos
- Kouropalates
- Logothetes tou genikou
- Megas archon
- Megas dioiketes
- Nipsistiarios
- Nobilissimus
- Oikeios
- Ostiarios
- Panhypersebastos
- Pinkernes
- Proedros
- Protoierakarios
- Protokynegos
- Protosebastos
- Protospatharios
- Rhaiktor
- Sebastohypertatos
- Sebastoi
- Sebastokrator
- Sebastophoros
- Sebastos
- Silentiarius
- Skouterios
- Spatharios
- Spatharokandidatos
- Stratelates
- Strator
- Vestarches
- Vestes
- Vestitor
- Zoste patrikia
Byzantine imperial titles
References
Also known as Pansebastos, Pansébastos sébastos, Sebastoi.