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4 days ago · Box office. $171.6 million [1] No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy 's 2005 novel of the same name. [2] Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, the film is set in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. [3]
2 days ago · The Council of Nicaea in 787 restored iconodule doctrine at the instigation of the empress Irene, but military reversals led Leo V to resurrect in 815 the iconoclastic policies associated with Constantine V, one of Byzantium’s most-successful generals.
3 days ago · Constantine I [g] (27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.
5 days ago · Summary: In "Sailing to Byzantium," 'Byzantium' symbolizes a realm of artistic and spiritual transcendence. It represents an idealized world where the speaker seeks to escape the...
2 days ago · The 6th century: from East Rome to Byzantium. The years of achievement to 540; The crisis of mid-century; The last years of Justinian I; Christian culture of the Byzantine Empire; The successors of Justinian: 565–610; The 7th century: the Heraclians and the challenge of Islam. Heraclius and the origin of the themes
5 days ago · The Byzantine emperors of the Macedonian dynasty had extended the frontiers of the empire from Mesopotamia to Naples (in Italy) and from the Danube River (in central Europe) to Palestine.
3 days ago · noun. an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the city and called it Constantinople and made it his capital. see more. noun. a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395. synonyms: Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire. see more.