Examples of Basil II in the following topics:
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- The image is part of the Menologion of Basil II, an illuminated manuscript compiled circa 1000 CE as a church calendar.
- From
the Monologion of Basil II.
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- Another
version of events claims that Basil II of Byzantine needed a military
and political ally in the face of a local uprising near
Constantinople.
- In either version of events, Vladimir vied for the hand of Anna,
the sister of the ruling Byzantine emperor, Basil II.
- In order to
marry her he was baptized in the Orthodox faith with the name Basil,
a nod to his future brother-in-law.
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- Shortly after this extended controversy over iconoclasm, which more or less ended (at least in the East) with the regent Theodora reinstituting icon worship in 842 CE, Emperor Basil I founded a new dynasty, the Macedonian Dynasty, in 867 CE.
- Basil was born a simple peasant in the Byzantine theme of Macedonia, he rose in the Imperial court, and usurped the Imperial throne from Emperor Michael III (r. 842–867).
- For example, Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas (who ruled from 912 CE-969 CE) pursued an aggressive policy of expansion.
- A depiction of Byzantine Emperor Basil I of the Macedonian Dynasty on horseback.
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- In 971 John I Tzimiskes, the Byzantine emperor, subjugated much of the weakening Bulgarian Empire, facing wars with Russians, Pechenegs, Magyars and Croatians and by defeating Boris II and capturing Preslav, the Bulgarian capital.
- Byzantine Emperor Basil II completely conquered Bulgaria in 1018 as a result of the 1014 Battle of Kleidion.
- In 1186 the rebels suffered a defeat, but Isaac II Angelos failed to exploit his victory and returned to Constantinople.
- When Isaac II Angelos penetrated into Moesia again in 1187 he failed to capture either Tărnovo or Loveč, and he signed a treaty effectively recognizing the Second Bulgarian Empire, but neither side had any intention of keeping the peace.
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- During the time that the Normans had conquered southern Italy, the Byzantine Empire was in a state of internal decay; the administration of the Empire had been wrecked, the efficient government institutions that provided Basil II with a quarter of a million troops and adequate resources by taxation had collapsed within a period of three decades.
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- The major superficial veins of the upper limb are the cephalic, median cubital and basilic veins.
- The basilic vein follows a similar path but is located medially to the cephalic vein.
- At the elbow, the basilic and cephalic veins are linked by the median cubital vein, from which blood is often drawn.
- At the shoulder, the basilic vein passes deep into the arm and merges with the brachial veins to form the axillary vein, to which the cephaliac vein merges, forming the subclavian vein.
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- A follow up treaty, SALT II was discussed but was never ratified by the United States.
- The SALT II pact of the late 1970s built on the work of the SALT I talks, ensuring further reduction in arms by the Soviets and by the US .
- This photograph depicts Olympic runners in the 1980 games in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.
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- However,
historian Basil Liddell Hart argues that "Poland was a full demonstration of the Blitzkrieg theory."
- Historians disagree over when the blitzkrieg phase of World War II in Europe ended.
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- In contrast to meiosis I, meiosis II resembles a normal mitosis.
- The two cells produced in meiosis I go through the events of meiosis II together.
- The process of chromosome alignment differs between meiosis I and meiosis II.
- In prometaphase II, microtubules attach to the kinetochores of sister chromatids, and the sister chromatids are arranged at the midpoint of the cells in metaphase II.
- In anaphase II, the sister chromatids are separated.
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- After the end of iconoclasm, a new mosaic was dedicated in the Hagia Sophia under the Patriarch Photius and the Macedonian emperors Michael III and Basil I.
- An inscription reads: "The images which the impostors had cast down here, pious emperors (Michael and Basil) have again set up."