| 41. | The still sizeable Byzantine Empire survived and remained a major power.
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| 42. | Polarization of this nature was not new in the Byzantine Empire.
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| 43. | Persian dynasty, the Rome, and later with the Byzantine Empire.
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| 44. | The Patriarchate is based in Istanbul and dates from the Orthodox Greek Byzantine Empire.
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| 45. | In the first Golden Age of the Byzantine Empire, the sixth century, iconography flourished.
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| 46. | It was later ruled by the Byzantine Empire of Trebizond.
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| 47. | At its height, the Byzantine empire stretched from the straits of Gibraltar to Mesopotamia.
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| 48. | She acted as regent of the Byzantine Empire in 1180-1182.
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| 49. | This strengthened the connection of Antioch to the Byzantine Empire.
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| 50. | It was organized by Bartholomew's patriarchate which dates from the Orthodox Greek Byzantine Empire.
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