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Pulcheria

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Saint Aelia Pulcheria (Πουλχερία; 19 January 398 or 399 – July 453) was Regent of the Byzantine Empire during the minority of her brother Theodosius II, and empress by marriage to Marcian. [1]

91 relations: Acoemetae, Aelia Eudocia, Aelia Eudoxia, Altar in the Catholic Church, Anatolius of Constantinople, Anthemius (praetorian prefect), Antiochus (praepositus sacri cubiculi), Arcadia (daughter of Arcadius), Arcadius, Aspar, Atticus of Constantinople, Bahram V, Berat, Blachernae, Byzantine Anatolia, Byzantine coinage, Cambrai Madonna, Chalke, Chrysaphius, Church of St. Mary of Blachernae (Istanbul), Church of the Holy Apostles, Cornelius Jansen, Episcopal Intercession, Esphigmenou, Eusebius of Dorylaeum, Eutyches, Family tree of the Byzantine emperors, Family tree of the Roman emperors, February 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, Galla Placidia, Gillian Bradshaw, Guillaume Courtois, Hodegon Monastery, Icon, Index of Byzantine Empire-related articles, January 19, July 4, Licinia Eudoxia, List of Augustae, List of Byzantine emperors, List of Coptic Orthodox Popes of Alexandria, List of early Christian saints, List of female hereditary rulers, List of female scientists before the 20th century, List of orphans and foundlings, List of queens regnant, List of Roman and Byzantine Empresses, List of Roman emperors, List of royal saints and martyrs, ..., List of state leaders in the 5th century, List of women in the Heritage Floor, Marcia Euphemia, Marcian, Metropolis of Chalcedon, Monaxius, Motella, Nectarius of Constantinople, Olybrius, Outline of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Palace of Antiochos, Palace of Daphne, Paul of Xeropotamou, Placidia Palace, Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria, Pope Hilarius, Pulcheria (daughter of Theodosius I), Pulcheria (disambiguation), Roman Emperors during the Fall of the Western Empire, Roman–Sasanian War (421–422), Romulus (son of Anthemius), Senator (bishop of Milan), September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), Sign of the Pagan, The Emperor of the East, Theodosian dynasty, Theodosius II, Timeline of Orthodoxy in Greece (33–717), Tomb of the Virgin Mary, Trier Adventus Ivory, Verina, 390s, 408, 414, 435, 441, 450, 450s, 453, 457, 5th century. Expand index (41 more) »

Acoemetae

Acoemetae (also spelled Acoemeti or Akoimetoi lit) was an order of Eastern (Greek or Basilian) monks who celebrated the divine service without intermission day or night.

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Aelia Eudocia

Aelia Eudocia Augusta (Late Greek: Αιλία Ευδοκία Αυγούστα; 401–460 AD), also called Saint Eudocia, was a Greek Eastern Roman Empress by marriage to Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (r. 408–450), and a prominent historical figure in understanding the rise of Christianity.

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Aelia Eudoxia

Aelia Eudoxia (died 6 October 404) was a Roman Empress consort by marriage to the Roman Emperor Arcadius.

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Altar in the Catholic Church

In a Catholic church, the altar is the structure upon which the Eucharist is celebrated.

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Anatolius of Constantinople

Saint Anatolius (? – 3 July 458) was the first Patriarch of Constantinople (451 – 3 July 458).

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Anthemius (praetorian prefect)

Flavius Anthemius (floruit 400-414) was a high-ranking official of the late Roman Empire.

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Antiochus (praepositus sacri cubiculi)

Antiochus or Antiochos (Ἀντίοχος) was an influential eunuch courtier and official of the Byzantine Empire.

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Arcadia (daughter of Arcadius)

Arcadia (3 April 400 – 444) was the third daughter of Emperor Arcadius and Aelia Eudoxia and a member of the Theodosian dynasty.

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Arcadius

Arcadius (Flavius Arcadius Augustus; Ἀρκάδιος; 1 January 377 – 1 May 408) was Eastern Roman Emperor from 395 to 408.

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Aspar

Flavius Ardabur Aspar (c. 400471) was an Eastern Roman patrician and magister militum ("master of soldiers") of Alanic-Gothic descent.

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Atticus of Constantinople

Atticus (Ἀττικός; died 5 November 425) was the archbishop of Constantinople, succeeding Arsacius of Tarsus in March 406.

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Bahram V

Bahram V (𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭 Wahrām, New Persian: بهرام پنجم Bahrām), also known as Bahram Gor (بهرام گور, "onager ") was the fifteenth king (shah) of the Sasanian Empire, ruling from 420 to 438.

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Berat

Berat (Berati), historically known as Poulcheriopólis and Antipatreia, is the ninth most populous city of the Republic of Albania.

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Blachernae

Blachernae (Βλαχέρναι) was a suburb in the northwestern section of Constantinople, the capital city of the Byzantine Empire.

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Byzantine Anatolia

The history of the Eastern Roman Empire (324–1453) is generally considered to fall into three distinct eras.

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Byzantine coinage

Byzantine currency, money used in the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the West, consisted of mainly two types of coins: the gold solidus and a variety of clearly valued bronze coins.

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Cambrai Madonna

The Cambrai Madonna (or Notre-Dame de Grace), produced around 1340, is a small Italo-Byzantine, possibly Sienese,Upton (1989), 52 replica of an Eleusa (Virgin of Tenderness) icon.

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Chalke

The Chalke Gate (Χαλκῆ Πύλη), was the main ceremonial entrance (vestibule) to the Great Palace of Constantinople in the Byzantine period.

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Chrysaphius

Chrysaphius (Χρυσάφιος) was a eunuch at the Eastern Roman court, who became the chief minister of Theodosius II (r. 408–450).

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Church of St. Mary of Blachernae (Istanbul)

Saint Mary of Blachernae (full name in Greek: Θεοτόκος των Βλαχερνών (pr. Theotókos ton Vlachernón); Turkish name: Meryem Ana Kilisesi) is an Eastern Orthodox church in Istanbul.

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Church of the Holy Apostles

The Church of the Holy Apostles (Ἅγιοι Ἀπόστολοι, Agioi Apostoloi; Havariyyun Kilisesi), also known as the Imperial Polyándreion (imperial cemetery), was a Greek Eastern Orthodox church in Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

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Cornelius Jansen

Cornelius Jansen (Latinized name Cornelius Jansenius; also Corneille Janssens; 28 October 1585 – 6 May 1638) was the Dutch Catholic bishop of Ypres in Flanders and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism.

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Episcopal Intercession

Episcopal Intercession was the right of a church official to intercede on behalf of a criminal.

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Esphigmenou

Esphigmenou monastery (Μονή Εσφιγμένου) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece, dedicated to the Ascension of Christ.

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Eusebius of Dorylaeum

Eusebius of Dorylaeum was a 5th-century bishop who spoke out against heretical teachings, especially those of Nestorius and Eutyches, during the period of Christological controversy.

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Eutyches

Eutyches (Εὐτυχής; c. 380 – c. 456) was a presbyter and archimandrite at Constantinople.

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Family tree of the Byzantine emperors

This is a family tree of all the Eastern Roman Emperors who ruled in Constantinople.

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Family tree of the Roman emperors

This is a family tree of the Roman Emperors, showing only the relationships between the emperors.

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February 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

February 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 18 All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 2 (March 1 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste or the Holy Forty (Ancient/Katharevousa Greek Ἃγιοι Τεσσεράκοντα; Demotic: Άγιοι Σαράντα) were a group of Roman soldiers in the Legio XII ''Fulminata'' (Armed with Lightning) whose martyrdom in 320 for the Christian faith is recounted in traditional martyrologies.

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Galla Placidia

Aelia Galla Placidia (388 – 27 November 450), daughter of the Roman emperor Theodosius I, was regent to Valentinian III from 423 until his majority in 437, and a major force in Roman politics for most of her life.

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Gillian Bradshaw

Gillian Marucha Bradshaw (born May 14, 1956) is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who currently lives in Britain.

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Guillaume Courtois

Guillaume Courtois or italianized as Guglielmo Cortese, called Il Borgognone or Le Bourguignon ('the Burgundian'), (1628 – 14 or 15 June 1679, in: Treccani, accessed 14 March 2015) was a French-Italian painter, draughtsman and etcher.

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Hodegon Monastery

The Hodegon Monastery (also Monastery of the Panaghia Hodegetria or Monastery of the Hodegoi) in Constantinople was allegedly founded by Saint Pulcheria (399–453), a daughter of Emperor Arcadius.

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Icon

An icon (from Greek εἰκών eikōn "image") is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, and certain Eastern Catholic churches.

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Index of Byzantine Empire-related articles

This is a list of people, places, things, and concepts related to or originating from the Byzantine Empire (AD 330–1453).

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January 19

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July 4

The Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date.

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Licinia Eudoxia

Licinia Eudoxiap (422 – c. 493) was a Roman Empress, daughter of Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II.

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List of Augustae

Augusta (plural Augustae; αὐγούστα) was a Roman imperial honorific title given to empresses and honoured women of the imperial families.

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List of Byzantine emperors

This is a list of the Byzantine emperors from the foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD, which marks the conventional start of the Byzantine Empire (or the Eastern Roman Empire), to its fall to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD.

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List of Coptic Orthodox Popes of Alexandria

The following is a list of all of the Coptic Orthodox Popes of Alexandria who have led the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and have succeeded the Apostle Mark the Evangelist in the office of Bishop of Alexandria, who founded the Church in the 1st century, and therefore marked the beginning of Christianity in Africa.

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List of early Christian saints

This is a List of 1,067 Early Christian saints— saints before 450 AD— in alphabetical order by Christian name.

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List of female hereditary rulers

This is a list of female hereditary rulers who ruled or reigned over a political jurisdiction in their own right or by right of inheritance.

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List of female scientists before the 20th century

This is a historical list, intended to deal with the time period where it is believed that women working in science were rare.

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List of orphans and foundlings

Notable orphans and foundlings include world leaders, celebrated writers, entertainment greats, figures in science and business, as well as innumerable fictional characters in literature and comics.

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List of queens regnant

This is a list of Queens who have ruled as Queen in many countries (Separate queens for separate countries).

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List of Roman and Byzantine Empresses

This is a list of women who were Roman Empress, i.e. the wife of the Roman emperor, the ruler of the Roman Empire.

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List of Roman emperors

The Roman Emperors were rulers of the Roman Empire, wielding power over its citizens and military.

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List of royal saints and martyrs

This list of royal saints and martyrs enumerates Christian monarchs, other royalty, and nobility who have been beatified or canonized, or who are otherwise venerated as or conventionally given the appellation of "saint" or "martyr".

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List of state leaders in the 5th century

;State leaders in the 4th century – State leaders in the 6th century – State leaders by year This is a list of state leaders in the 5th century (401–500) AD.

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List of women in the Heritage Floor

This list documents all 999 mythical, historical and notable women who are displayed on the handmade white tiles of the Heritage Floor as part of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party art installation (1979).

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Marcia Euphemia

Marcia Euphemia (also known as Aelia Marcia Euphemia) was the wife of Anthemius, Western Roman Emperor.

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Marcian

Marcian (Flavius Marcianus Augustus; Μαρκιανός; 392 – 26 January 457) was the Eastern Roman Emperor from 450 to 457.

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Metropolis of Chalcedon

The Metropolis of Chalcedon (Μητρόπολη Χαλκηδόνος) is an ecclesiastical territory (diocese) of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

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Monaxius

Flavius Monaxius (floruit 408-420) was a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire, praefectus urbi of Constantinople, Consul and twice praetorian prefect of the East.

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Motella

Motella, Metello(u)polis, or Pulcherianopolis was a city in the Roman province of Phrygia Pacatiana, in Asia Minor, probably on the site of the modern Medele.

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Nectarius of Constantinople

Nectarius (... – 17 September 397) was the archbishop of Constantinople from AD 381 until his death, the successor to Saint Gregory Nazianzus.

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Olybrius

Olybrius (Anicius Olybrius Augustus) (died October 22 or November 2, 472) was Western Roman Emperor from April or May 472 until his death; his rule was not recognised as legitimate by the Eastern Roman Empire.

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Outline of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

This is an outline of the six-volume work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, authored by English historian Edward Gibbon (1737–1794).

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Palace of Antiochos

The Palace of Antiochos (τὰ παλάτια τῶν Ἀντιόχου) was an early 5th-century palace in the Byzantine capital, Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey).

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Palace of Daphne

The Palace of Daphne (Δάφνη) was one of the major wings of the Great Palace of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire (modern Istanbul, Turkey).

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Paul of Xeropotamou

Saint Paul of Xeropotamou, also Saint Paul of Xiropotamos, and Saint Paul of Xeropotamos, (Παύλος Ξηροποταμινός) was an ascetic and is the restorer of a monastery and founder of another monastery on Mount Athos.

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Placidia Palace

The Placidia Palace was the official residence of the papal ''apocrisiarius'' (the ambassador from the Pope to the Patriarch of Constantinople), and the intermittent home of the Pope himself when in residence at Constantinople.

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Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria

Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria, 25th Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.

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Pope Hilarius

Pope Hilarius (died 29 February 468) was Pope from 19 November 461 to his death in 468.

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Pulcheria (daughter of Theodosius I)

Aelia Pulcheria (385–386) was the daughter of Roman Emperor Theodosius I and Roman Empress Aelia Flaccilla.

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Pulcheria (disambiguation)

Pulcheria may refer to.

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Roman Emperors during the Fall of the Western Empire

The office of Roman Emperor underwent significant turbulence in the fourth and fifth centuries, particularly under the period of the Dominate.

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Roman–Sasanian War (421–422)

The Roman–Sassanid war of 421–422 was a conflict between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Sassanids.

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Romulus (son of Anthemius)

Romulus (fl. 469–479 AD) was a member of the House of Theodosius, son of Western Roman Emperor Anthemius.

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Senator (bishop of Milan)

Senator of Milan or Senator of Settala (Senatore di Settala) was Bishop of Milan from 472 to 475.

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September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Sep. 9 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Sep. 11 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on September 23 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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Sign of the Pagan

Sign of the Pagan is a 1954 American CinemaScope Technicolor historical drama directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance, Ludmilla Tchérina and Rita Gam.

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The Emperor of the East

The Emperor of the East is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Philip Massinger and first published in 1632.

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Theodosian dynasty

The Theodosian dynasty was a Roman family that rose to eminence in the waning days of the Roman Empire.

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Theodosius II

Theodosius II (Flavius Theodosius Junior Augustus; Θεοδόσιος Βʹ; 10 April 401 – 28 July 450),"Theodosius II" in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, New York & Oxford, 1991, p. 2051.

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Timeline of Orthodoxy in Greece (33–717)

This is a timeline of the presence of Orthodoxy in Greece.

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Tomb of the Virgin Mary

Church of the Sepulchre of Saint Mary, also Tomb of the Virgin Mary, is a Christian tomb in the Kidron Valley – at the foot of Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem – believed by Eastern Christians to be the burial place of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

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Trier Adventus Ivory

The Trier Adventus Ivory or the Translation of Relics Ivory is an artwork in the Trier Cathedral Treasury in Trier, Germany.

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Verina

Aelia Verina (died 484) was the Empress consort of Leo I of the Byzantine Empire.

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390s

The 390s decade ran from January 1, 390, to December 31, 399.

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408

Year 408 (CDVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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414

Year 414 (CDXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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435

Year 435 (CDXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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441

Year 441 (CDXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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450

Year 450 (CDL) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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450s

The 450s decade ran from January 1, 450, to December 31, 459.

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453

Year 453 (CDLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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457

Year 457 (CDLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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5th century

The 5th century is the time period from 401 to 500 Anno Domini (AD) or Common Era (CE) in the Julian calendar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulcheria

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