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  Tietosanakirja :: encyclopedia : Leo III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Leo III Isaurialainen (675-741) oli Bysantin keisari vuosina 717 - 741.
Leo eteni sotilasuralla Justinianus II:n aikana ja Anastasius II nimitti hänet Anatolikonin teeman strategokseksi eli sotilaskomentajaksi.
Leo vainosi myös juutalaisia ja pakkokäännytti heitä kristinuskoon.
www.tietosanakirja.org /Leo_III   (145 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: States of the Church
Leo IV had, in concert with some seaport towns of Italy, to take measures personally for the defence of Rome against the Saracens.
When these at the time of Leo IX advanced into the Lombard Duchy of Benevento, the Beneventans sought to defend themselves against them by expelling the reigning prince and electing the pope in 1051 as their sovereign.
Through Benevento Leo IX became involved in a quarrel with the Normans and took the field against them, but was defeated and made captive near Civitate in 1053.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14257a.htm   (12101 words)

  
 CONSTANTINOPLE - Online Information article about CONSTANTINOPLE
In 813 Leo V. the Armenian built the wall which stands in front of the wall of Heraclius to strengthen that point in view of an expected attack by the Bulgarians.
St Irene, founded by Constantine, and repaired by Justinian, is in its present form mainly a restoration by Leo the Isaurian, in the middle of the 8th century.
St Mary Panachrantos (Fenari Isa Mesjidi) belongs to the reign of Leo the Wise (886-912).
encyclopedia.jrank.org /COM_COR/CONSTANTINOPLE.html   (6500 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for fall of the byzantine empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The movement was inaugurated by Leo the Isaurian....
By 610, the Classical Roman Empire had evolved into the Middle Age Byzantine Empire although it was never called this rather it was called Romania or Basileia Romaion and the Byzantines continued to consider themselves Roman until their fall in the 15th century....
The Holy Roman Empire, an attempt to resurrect the Empire in the West, was established in 800 when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, though the empire and the imperial office did not become formalised for some decades....
www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/3739.html   (2275 words)

  
 Saints of August 24   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He is said to have preached the Gospel in several countries before being subjected to imprisonment and torture for his faith (Benedictines, Delaney).
Saint George, a 95-year-old hermit on Mount Olympus in Asia Minor, was tortured, then martyred by the emperor Leo the Isaurian for defending the veneration of relics and images (Encyclopedia).
Saint Servanus to preach in the Orkney Islands and Saint Ternan, titular patron of Abernathy cathedral, to the Picts.
www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0824.htm   (1324 words)

  
 Some Publications showing the Jews to be Khazars and not Israelites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Jews who had been banished from Constantinople by the Byzantine ruler, Leo III, found a home amongst these heretofore pagan Khazars and, in competition with Mohammedan and Christian missionaries, won them over to the Judaic faith.
When the Byzantine Emperor, Leo the Isaurian, persecuted the Jews in A.D. 723, many Jews found refuge in the Khazar kingdom, and their influence was so great that, around the middle of the 8th century, the King of the Khazars and many of the Khazar nobility accepted the Jewish faith."
The Cadillac Modern Encyclopedia, page 822, states: "Khazars (khah'-zahrz), a S Russian people of Turkic origin, who at the height of their power (during the 8th-10th cent., A.D.) controlled an empire which included Crimea, and extended along the lower Volga, as far E as the Caspian Sea.
www.biblebelievers.org.au /jews.htm   (4508 words)

  
 The Shadow of a Mighty Rock
Charles Martel however was successful in repulsing them.
Leo the Isaurian similarly was able to overthrow their assaults on Constantinople in 717, 718, the more remarkable in that this was nearer to the centre of Islam geographically (H.A.L. Fisher, A Historyof Europe, p.
Alas what the Saracen, Moslem invaders were then unable to do, before long the pope would be doing in his own way, using deplorable force in substitution for spiritual weapons such as would have suited his profession (II Corinthians 10:4), against Christians.
www.webwitness.org.au /smr/bk3chap10-b.html   (6460 words)

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