| | 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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