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	Wikipedia: Georgius Acropolita
		George Acropolita (Akropolites) (1217-1282), Byzantine historian and statesman, was born at Constantinople.
		Acropolita's most important political task was that of effecting a reconciliation between the Greek and Latin Churches, to which he had been formerly opposed.
		Acropolita is considered a trustworthy authority as far as the statement of facts is concerned, and he is easy to understand, although he exhibits special carelessness in the construction of his sentences.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/g/ge/georgius_acropolita.html (417 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 247 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		George, with his party, was admitted into the town, and there he was killed by the townsmen, with Joannes, one of his chief officers, and the rest of his troops taken prisoners, a.
		A George was Catholic bishop or patriarch of Alexandria from a.
		George afterwards returned to Trebizond, and was high in favour with David, the last emperor of Trebizond, at whose court he seems to have borne the offices of Logo-theta and Protovestiarius.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1355.html (986 words)

	Georgius Acropolita
		At an early age he was sent by his father to the court of John Ducas Batatzes (Vatatzes), emperor of Nicaea, by whom and by his successors (Theodore II Lascaris and Michael VIII Palaeologus) he was entrusted with important state missions.
		It is valuable as written by a contemporary, whose official position as great logothete, military commander and confidential ambassador afforded him frequent opportunities of observing the course of events.
		He was also the author of several shorter works, amongst them being a funeral oration on John Batatzes, an epitaph on his wife Eirene and a panegyric of Theodorus II Lascaris of Nicaea.
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		GEORGE OF LAODICEA: Bishop of Laodicea in Syria, one of the leaders of the homoiousian party; b.
		George then joined the " Eusebians," and before 335 they procured him the bishopric of Laodicea; he took part in the Synod of Antioch in 339 and for doing so was anathematized by the Occidentals.
		George regarded the Nicene doctrine as Sabellianism and was an especial enemy of Athanasius; but he did not altogether agree with Eusebius of Nicomedia since he opposed Arianism sharply, and, with Bishop Basil of Ancyra, became founder of the holnoiousian party.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc04/htm/0475=459.htm (919 words)

	George Pachymeres Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		George Pachymeres Info - Bored Net - Boredom
		On their expulsion by Michael Palaeologus, Pachymeres settled in Constantinople, studied law, entered the church, and subsequently became chief advocate of the church and chief justice of the imperial court.
		His literary activity was considerable, his most important work being a Byzantine history in 13 books, in continuation of that of Georgius Acropolita from 1261 (or rather 1255) to 1308, containing the history of the reigns of Michael and Andronicus Palaeologi.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/g/ge/george_pachymeres.html (156 words)

	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon (chapter62)
		The slaves of the Latins, without law or peace, applauded the happiness of their brethren who had resumed their national freedom; and Vataces employed the laudable policy of convincing the Greeks of every dominion that it was their interest to be enrolled in the number of his subjects.
		His virtues were sullied by a choleric and suspicious temper: the first of these may be ascribed to the ignorance of control; and the second might naturally arise from a dark and imperfect view of the corruption of mankind.
		stands high and conspicuous in the Byzantine history: it was the valiant George Palaeologus who placed the father of the Comneni on the throne; and his kinsmen or descendants continue, in each generation, to lead the armies and councils of the state.
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		Byzantine historians had also early fallen into the writing of chronicles, although the greater unity of the Byzantine Empire and the persistence of a unified culture gave somewhat more literary quality to the Byzantine works, from Procopius through Anna Comnena to the 13th-century writings of George Acropolita and the Acominatus brothers.
		In the United States, romantic historians, such as George Bancroft, William H. Prescott, John L. Motley, and Francis Parkman were followed by such brilliant and questioning men as Henry Adams.
		The broader interest in the philosophy of history had not died, and the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel had created a school of idealistic historians.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Trajanopolis
		Glyceria, a martyr of the second century, venerated on 13 May, was born there.
		Wailly, 382, 568); it was captured and pillaged in 1206 by Joannitza, King of the Bulgarians (George Acropolita, "Hist.", XIII).
		It is still mentioned in Nicephoras (Ancedota of Boissonade, V, 279), in John Cantacuzenus (Hist., I, 38; II, 13; III, 67), in George Pachymeres (ad ann.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15016a.htm (257 words)

	history: Western Historiography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Byzantine historians had also early fallen into the writing of chronicles, although the greater unity of the Byzantine Empire and the persistence of a unified culture gave somewhat more literary quality to the Byzantine works, from
		to the 13th-century writings of George Acropolita and the Acominatus brothers.
		The broader interest in the philosophy of history had not died, and the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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