Ekloge ton nomon
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The Ekloge ton nomon is an 8th-century Byzantine legal code compiled and adopted under the Isaurian dynasty. It served as the basis of, or was complimentary to many legal codes. It was replaced in 886
Leo III the Isaurian
Leo III the Isaurian
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Leo III the Isaurian, also known as the Syrian, was the first Byzantine emperor of the Isaurian dynasty from 717 until his death in 741. He put an end to the Twenty Years' Anarchy, a period of great i
Ekloge ton nomon
…replaced in 886 by the Epanagoge/Eisagoge of the Macedonian dynasty. Scholarship is divided on the dating of the adoption, to either 726 and the reign of Leo III (r. 726–741), or to 741 and the reign of Constantine V (r. 741–775). According to V. Minale (2012), it was most likely issued in March 741. Šarkić…
A mosaic cross in the apse of the Hagia Sophia, Thessaloniki. This mosaic is exemplary of the 8th-century iconoclast style, in which prominence to the symbol of the cross was given rather than to icons.
Example of the miliarēsion silver coins, first struck by Leo III to commemorate the coronation of his son, Constantine V, in 720