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  Palaeologus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The dynasty was a patron of literature and the arts; among others, George Gemistos Plethon came to prominence.
At this time the Peloponnese was the largest and wealthiest part of the empire, and was ruled as a Despotate by the Palaeologus family, often two or three brothers simultaneously.
Although the family was an old one (George Palaeologus was a friend of Alexius I Comnenus), the patriarch of the dynasty was Andronicus Palaeologus.
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 Byzantine aristocracy and bureaucracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was very likely one of the few who knew the secret of the composition of Greek fire.
By the end of the Palaialogos dynasty the megaduke was head of the government and bureaucracy, not just the navy.
Megas drungarios - a subordinate of the megas doux, who was in charge of the naval officers.
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 Encyclopedia: Byzantine aristocracy and bureaucracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran).
Roger de Flor, a military adventurer of the 13th and 14th century, was the second son of a German falconer surnamed Blum (flower) in the service of the emperor Frederick II, who fell at Tagliacozzo (1268).
Depiction of Greek Fire in the Madrid Skylitzes manuscript Greek Fire (also called Byzantine Fire, wildfire and liquid fire) was a weapon used by the Byzantine Empire, said to have been invented by a Syrian Christian refugee named Kallinikos (Callinicus) of Heliopolis, probably about 673.
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