Embassies were sent and states like Nupe recognized the suzerainty of the Byzantine emperor.

Another inscription showed Byzantine emperor Tiberius II Constantinus had helped fund the church's later expansion.

Two years later he married the niece and supposed heiress of the last Byzantine emperor.

Victory of Manuel, the Byzantine Emperor, over the Servians, who become vassals of that empire.

She was the niece of the last Byzantine emperor.

So it was under the Roman and Byzantine emperors, and so it continued to be later.

Gradually this martial race seized province after province of the Asiatic possessions of the Byzantine emperors.

Sometimes protecting, sometimes robbing Constantinople, their chiefs drank from the gold-banded skull of a Byzantine emperor.

In the centuries afterwards, the Bulgars remained one of the more uncomfortable recurrent problems for Byzantine emperors.

Named after the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, the outbreak was one of the first recorded plague pandemics.

It is not surprising that the Russians, who owed so much to Byzantine culture, revered the Byzantine emperors.

Like a Byzantine emperor, some of them wear jewelled clasps on their mantles, others are mailed in ivory plates.

There is unanimity on probably just one matter following Pope Benedict's quoting of Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus last Tuesday.

The Turks, under Mohammed 11, took Constantinople from the last of the Byzantine emperors in the middle of the fifteenth century.

A few decades later, and with permission from Cairo, Byzantine emperors rebuilt the church on the old foundations using salvaged material.

A Palaeologus, brother of a Byzantine emperor, had conquered the city of Toledo, and transmitted its appellation as a family name.