Roman Emperor Constantine the Great officially declared Constantinople his “New Rome” and the capital of the Roman Empire on ...

Empress Catherine the Great herself was unable to restore ... Plague of Justinian (541-542 AD) Plague of Justinian, where in the Byzantine Empire this happened under Emperor Justinian I, was ...

It was a refined European civilisation with roots in the Byzantine empire and its Orthodox ... This included Crimea, annexed to Russia by Catherine the Great in 1783. She oversaw the final ...

Empress Catherine the Great herself was unable to restore normalcy after ... Plague of Justinian, where in the Byzantine Empire this happened under Emperor Justinian I, was due to the bacterium ...

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

Crimea's historical ties to Russia date back to the 18th century when Catherine the Great incorporated it into the Russian Empire, along with a significant portion of ethnic Ukrainian territory.

And while it’s true that Crimea was part of Russia for more than a century and a half – since it was annexed by Catherine the Great in 1783 ... Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires, it was ...

was absorbed into the Russian Empire along with most ethnic Ukrainian territory by Catherine the Great in the 18th century. Russia's Black Sea naval base at Sevastopol was founded soon afterwards.

(In 1783, Catherine the Great achieved Russia’s longtime goal of having a warm-water port, Sevastopol, by seizing Crimea from the Ottoman Empire.) Crimea was populated mostly by Tatars until ...

Roman Emperor Constantine the Great officially declared Constantinople his “New Rome” and the capital of the Roman Empire on May 11 ... of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine ...