Ancient Gades, in Roman Spain, and Patavium, in the Celtic north of Italy, were atypically wealthy cities, and having 500 equestrians in one city was unusual | Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527—1204 |
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In Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-Perkins and Michael Whitby ed | Preface to Frontiers in the Roman World |
The use of the cross, and of images of , the and various saints is also of officials, but these were personal rather than family emblems.
51185 A successful rebellion is organized in Bulgaria, which , and other lands are lost in the Balkans | |
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Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe Oxford University Press; 2010 ; 734 pages; Examines the migrations, trade, and other phenomena that shaped a recognizable entity of Europe in the first millennium | , The Later Roman Empire, 284—602, , ISBN 0-8018-3285-3• Othmar Hageneder, Christoph Egger, Karl Rudolf, and Andrea Sommerlechner ed |
The later term Romania, which was eventually carried over to , appears in Greek and Latin sources from the fourth century onward.
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