In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine ... begun by Peter the Great. During her reign she extended the Russian empire southwards ...
The Byzantine Empire faced numerous challenges, forcing many Greeks to employ genius tactics to defend the Empire.
The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was ... The one exception in the empire’s thousand years was the Nika revolt of 532, when Justinian the Great, at the urging of Empress Theodora, sent ...
Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.