Isaurian
Britishadjective
noun
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In 726, the Emperor Leo the Isaurian ordered all icons within the Byzantine realm destroyed to discourage idolatry.
From Time Magazine Archive
This led to an Isaurian rebellion in southern Asia Minor which was not stamped out until 498.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
If Leo the Isaurian had died on the day on which the army of the Caliph raised the siege of Constantinople it would have been well for his reputation in history.
From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman
In Leo the Isaurian, and in his son Kopronymus we see, in fact, that the man who sits on the throne of the first Christian emperor is become the chief enemy of the Church.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
Thus ended the rule of the Isaurian dynasty.
From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman
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