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Private Istanbul Tours
A lot has been said and written about Istanbul. Still, the city is an endless source of information. It’s definitely worth trying getting to...
Antioch and the larger Egypt behind Alexandria
The fourth and last piece of advice that even a contemporary might have given Justinian and that he should have heeded was straightforward—to take...
Coming down through the Caucusus
For that boundary to remain hostile, armed, and simultaneously attractive and difficult (attractive to merchants, difficult for all) created and perpetuated exactly the weakness...
Christians to be a political force
Finally, there were matters emperors were incapable of understanding, or understood but rarely. Chief among them were religion and economics. No one—unless we make...
Wealth of Romans
HOW HE SEIZED ALL THE WEALTH OF THE ROMANS AND THREW IT AWAYHow he seized all wealth I will next discuss: recalling first a...
Scirtus River flooded Edessa
However, punishment for these offenses was mostly directed against the Greens.Furthermore the persecution of the Samaritans and the so-called heretics filled the Roman realm...
Boundaries of Persia
Such were the results of the wars in Libya and in Europe. Meanwhile the Saracens were continuously making inroads on the Romans of the...
The civil law of Rome
The law of nature is that which she has taught all animals; a law not peculiar to the human race, but shared by all...
Most difficult undertaking
After having concluded this work and collected it all in a single volume under Our illustrious name, raising Ourself above small and comparatively insignificant...
Corpus Iuris Civilis 6th Century
LawsCorpus Iuris Civilis, 6th CenturyAlthough Law as practiced in Rome had grown up as a type of case law, this was not the “Roman...
