Byzantine blue is a color ranging from light celestial blue or lazuli to dark Egyptian blue. The dark variation is best described as the color of the...

Byzantine dress changed considerably over the thousand years of the Empire, but was essentially conservative. Popularly, Byzantine dress remained attached...

Street. It is one of three Byzantine churches on the hillside, the others two being the Ridge Church (or Red Church) and the Blue Chapel, the 5th - 6th century...

For most of its history, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire did not use heraldry in the Western European sense of permanent motifs transmitted through...

The Byzantine–Ottoman wars were a series of decisive conflicts between the Byzantine Greeks and Ottoman Turks and their allies that led to the final destruction...

on earth and of his kingdom as an imitation of God's holy realm. The Byzantine Empire was a multi-ethnic monarchic theocracy adopting, following, and...

white and gray, it is an achromatic color, literally a color without hue. Blue is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum...

bleu or blue; and azureus, from the Arabic word lazaward, which became azure. Blue was widely used in the decoration of churches in the Byzantine Empire...

refer to the Roman and Byzantine emperors. In the Middle East, the Persians and the Arabs continued to refer to the Roman and Byzantine emperors as "Caesar"...

double-headed eagle design with the blue-and-white stripes of the flag of Greece. The design is sometimes dubbed the "Byzantine imperial flag", and is...