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byzantines
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n. (plural of Byzantine English)
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Byzantines may refer to:
- Byzantine Empire, the conventional term of reference for the continuation of the Roman Empire in the east after the fall of the western half.
- Byzantine Greeks, (Romaioi/Graikoi) the majority population for most of the empire’s existence.
Usage examples of "byzantines".
And while the Byzantines had fire at sea, they would soon need to come to land, for water.
If the Byzantines had indeed made the long passage down the Mediterranean, they would not be at the limit of their endurance, they would have passed it days ago.
Yet at the heart of the policy of the Byzantines was the need to keep their one great technical advantage secret.
Better to lose a battle by destroying one's equipment, he had been told a thousand times, than to risk its capture for a purely temporary victory—all victories, for the beleaguered Empire of the Byzantines, had long been recognized as temporary.
Since her last banquet in Roma, she had continued to choose subdued clothing and modest-but-costly ornaments to wear, sensing that this would offset some of the adverse attitudes the Byzantines had toward Romans.
You Byzantines have complicated worship until it is nothing more than a theatrical performance.
There are Byzantines who want to pick the carcass before the Ostrogoths get there.
The Byzantines had long acquaintance with this tactic, however, and were not easily outflanked.
The three main bodies, followed by the great rolling wave - twenty thousand barbarians wide and twenty deep - swept on up the hill at a run, determined not to allow the Byzantines enough time to regroup for another charge.
Poised to fight, yet waiting for the Byzantines to make the first move, they appeared irresolute and uncertain.
Horse and rider appeared fo merge into one naked batch of muscle: not so much of a man or of a horse, but of a weapon, piercing and heartless, like the Croatian plain, upon which the threat of the Ottoman Turks, who in 1453 replaced the Byzantines at Constantinople , rose and fell.
Threatened by Venice , an ally of the hated Byzantines, both Croatia and Dalmatia actually welcomed this Hungarian protection.
Because King Stefan Dushan had overrun Macedonia in the fourteenth century and had made Skopje, in Dame Rebecca's words, "a great city, and there he had been crowned one Easter Sunday Emperor and Autocrat of the Serbs and Byzantines, the Bulgars and the Albanians," the Serbs believed Macedonia to be theirs.
The Byzantines, at the height of their spiritual adventure, had the faculty of presenting a vision of the heavenly state.
We went one night to a wine shop, done in the extravagant style of the Byzantines, a place near the Royal Portico.