• Before becoming a proedros, Kedrenos may have held the somewhat lower rank of vestarches. Vestarches Georgios Kedrenos is in fact known from a number...
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    eventual destruction are unknown. The 11th-century Byzantine historian Georgios Kedrenos records a tradition that it was carried off to Constantinople, where...
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  • Comito is also mentioned by John Malalas, Theophanes the Confessor and Georgios Kedrenos. Comito's father, Acacius, was a bear trainer of the hippodrome's...
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    contemporary with Justinian and reported by Theophanes the Confessor and Georgios Kedrenos to have visited Constantinople in 535, might have been a corruption...
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    today the city's Great Mosque. The Christian tradition exemplified in Georgios Kedrenos' Historiarum compendium is at variance with this, John Scylitzes recounting...
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    The chroniclers Theophanes the Confessor (end of 8th century) and Georgios Kedrenos (11th century) wrote that the 726 eruption of the Thera volcano was...
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    evidence for this belief comes from an eleventh-century manuscript by Georgios Kedrenos.) Wenn, Stephen R.; Schaus, Gerald P., eds. (2007). Onward to the...
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  • Tunnuna, Theophanes the Confessor and Georgios Kedrenos consider Justin and his family Illyrians, though Kedrenos is uncertain. Evagrius Scholasticus,...
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    a tribe of Thracians. Theodorus Lector, Theophanes the Confessor, Georgios Kedrenos and Michael the Syrian report Leo born in Thrace. However the Bibliotheca...
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  • Sophia, the wife of Emperor Justin II. She is known only because of Georgios Kedrenos and the Suda. They mention a statue of her in the Milion, alongside...
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