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(än´n k mn ´n ) (KEY) , b. 1083, d. after 1148, Byzantine princess and historian; daughter of Emperor Alexius I. She plotted, during and after her...
(ärk ´d s) (KEY) , c.377–408, Roman emperor of the East (395–408), son and successor of Theodosius I. His brother, Honorius, inherited (395) th...
( t l´ , t´ l ) (KEY) , d. 453, king of the Huns (445–53). After 434 he was coruler with his brother, whom he murdered in 445. In 434, Attila obt...
( t´ lf) (KEY) , d. 415, Visigothic king (410–15). Succeeding his brother-in-law, Alaric I, he abandoned Alaric’s scheme of southward expansion ...
( th n´ r k) (KEY) , d. 381, Visigothic chieftain. He led the Visigoths against Emperor Valens and negotiated a favorable peace in 369. A pagan, he p...
(Alexius Ducas Mourtzouphlos) ( l k´s s, d ´k sm rt´s fl s) (KEY) , d. 1204, Byzantine emperor (1204), son-in-law of Alexius III. The head of the ...