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Anthimus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (149 words) |
 | Anthimus, Arab martyr on October 27 during the reign of Emperor Diocletian. |
 | Anthimus of Nicomedia, a contemporary of Gregory Nazianzen. |
 | Anthmius of Tyana, bishop in AD Anthimus, a Greek doctor at the court of Theodoric the Great and author of De observatione ciborum ("On the Observance of Foods"). |
| The Byzantine Empire (16928 words) |
 | The sixth period is that of decline; the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders had disrupted the empire into several new political units; even after the restoration, the empire of the Palaeologi is only one member of this group of states. |
 | During the great leaguer of Constantinople, from April to September, 673, Callinicus a Syrian, is said to have taught the Greeks the use of gunpowder, or "Greek fire". |
 | He was supported in his efforts by Sergius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and Pope Honorius I. As a basis of dogmatic unity, Heraclius proclaimed as a formula of faith the "union of the two Natures of the God-Man through the Divine-human energy". |