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The city of Constantinople was named New Rome or Second Rome very soon after its foundation in AD 324; over the next two
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Machiavelli's ambiguous treatment of religion has fueled a contentious and long-standing debate among scholars. Whe
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Still funny after two thousand years, the Roman playwright Plautus wrote around 200 B.C.E., a period when Rome was fight
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In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the “Third Rome.” By the 1930s, intellectuals and art
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Few alphabets in the world are actively celebrated, and none more so than the Slavonic. Annually across Eastern Europe,
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The division between the Latin and Greek churches is one of the fields of research that best represents the complexity a
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