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Zenopolis (titular See)
Zenopolis or Zenoupolis () or Zenonopolis (Ζηνωνόπολις, "city of Zeno) is a name given to at least three cities of the in : * Zenopolis (Isauria)
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Zeno (emperor)
Zeno (; ; – 9 April 491) was Eastern Roman emperor from 474 to 475 and again from 476 to 491. His reign was plagued by domestic revolts and religious dissension, but was more successful on the foreign front. He is credited with further stabilizing the Eastern empire, while the Western Roman Empire fell following the deposition of Romulus Augustulus. Born in Isauria, Zeno was known as Tarasis before adopting his Greek name and becoming an ally of Emperor Leo I (emperor), Leo I, who saw the Isaurian general as an important counterweight against the Germanic leader Aspar. In 466, he married Leo I's daughter, Ariadne (empress), Ariadne, with whom he had a son, Leo II (emperor), Leo. On the death of Leo I in 474, Zeno's seven-year-old son took the throne as Leo II, with Zeno made co-emperor shortly after. Leo II died of an illness later that year, leaving Zeno as the sole emperor. Despite his early success in making peace with the Vandals, Zeno was an unpopular emperor due to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire ruled the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. The Roman people, Romans conquered most of this during the Roman Republic, Republic, and it was ruled by emperors following Octavian's assumption of effective sole rule in 27 BC. The Western Roman Empire, western empire collapsed in 476 AD, but the Byzantine Empire, eastern empire lasted until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. By 100 BC, the city of Rome had expanded its rule from the Italian peninsula to most of the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and beyond. However, it was severely destabilised by List of Roman civil wars and revolts, civil wars and political conflicts, which culminated in the Wars of Augustus, victory of Octavian over Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, and the subsequent conquest of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt. In 27 BC, the Roman Senate granted Octavian overarching military power () and the new title of ''Augustus (title), Augustus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Late Antiquity
Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early Middle Ages. Late antiquity as a period was popularized by Peter Brown (historian), Peter Brown in 1971, and this periodization has since been widely accepted. Late antiquity represents a cultural sphere that covered much of the Mediterranean world, including parts of Europe and the Near East.Brown, Peter (1971), ''The World of Late Antiquity (1971), The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750''Introduction Late antiquity was an era of massive political and religious transformation. It marked the origins or ascendance of the three major monotheistic religions: Christianity, rabbinic Judaism, and Islam. It also marked the ends of both the Western Roman Empire and the Sasanian Empire, the last Persian empire of antiquity, and the beginning of the early Muslim conquests, Arab conquests. Meanwhile, the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire became a milit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zenopolis (Isauria)
Zenopolis () was an ancient Roman and Byzantine city in Isauria. Its site is located near Elmayurdu in Asiatic Turkey. History This city was the birthplace of Emperor Zeno (474–491), and was renamed in his honour. Its previous name was Rusumblada, according to Ramsay, but the author of the entry on Rusumblada in ''Paulys Real-Encyclopaedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft'' considers this uncertain. Its modern name is Isnebol. George of Cyprus mentioned it in the 7th century, as did Constantine Porphyrogenitus in the 10th century, as a city of the Isaurian Decapolis. Bishopric The city is recorded as a bishopric in the 6th-century ''Notitia Episcopatuum'' of the Patriarchate of Antioch, but in about 732 Isauria was attached to the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Le Quien mentions two bishops: * Eulalius (), at the Third Council of Constantinople (681) * Marcus, at the Second Council of Nicaea (787) The Catholic Church's list of titular sees continues to include the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zenopolis (Lycia)
Zenopolis () was an ancient Roman and Byzantine city and episcopal see variously placed in Lycia or in neighbouring Pamphylia. At the Second Council of Constantinople (553), one bishop signed as "Gennadius by the mercy of God bishop of the Zenopolitans, a city of the province of Pamphylia". The acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787), on the other hand. bear the signature of Σταυράκιος ἐπίσκοπος Ζηνοπόλεως (Stauracius bishop of Zenopolis), who sat with the bishops of Lycia. In about 940, the ''Notitia Episcopatuum'' of Constantine Porphyrogenitus listed a Zenopolis in Pamphylia. In his ''Origines Ecclesiasticae'', Joseph Bingham gave Zenopolis as the name of two distinct cities, one in Lycia, the other in Pamphylia, and indicates that the Pamphylian see was also called Diciozanabrus. Le Quien interpreted the references instead as concerning a single city that could be viewed as part of either of the two contiguous provinces of Lycia and Pamphylia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
