Heraclius
Americannoun
noun
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David is a stand-in for Heraclius, the relentlessly warring Roman sovereign.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2022
“My beautiful province,” as the seventh-century Byzantine emperor Heraclius called Syria, while retreating from Muslim conquerors, “what a paradise you will be for the enemy!”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2020
Heraclius created a new administrative system to try to defend the remaining Byzantine territory: themes.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
The very same year that Heraclius returned the True Cross to Jerusalem, the Islamic Prophet Muhammad returned to his native city of Mecca in the Arabian Peninsula with the first army of Muslims.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
He then conducted Sibylla and her husband to the church of the Resurrection, where they were both crowned by Heraclius, and were afterwards entertained at dinner in the Temple.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Charles G. Addison
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