The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world (1908) (14761661546)

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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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with successagainst the king of the Persians, Varanes. Thekingdom of Armenia, thrown into confusion byinternal dissensions, and claimed at the sametime by the Romans and the Persians, becamenow a bone of contention between the twonations (440). Attila laid waste the dominionsof Theodosius, and obliged him to pay tribute(447). After the death of her brother Pul-cheria was acknowledged empress (450). Shewas the first female who attained this dignity,and giving her hand to the senator Marcian,raised him to the throne. His wisdom andvalor averted the attacks of the Huns fromthe frontiers, but he did not support the West-ern empire in its wars against the Huns andthe Vandals with sufficient energy, and af-forded shelter to a part of the Germans andSarmatians who were driven to the Romanfrontiers by the incursions of the Huns. Pul-cheria died before him in 453. Leo I. (457). aprince praised by contemporary authors, waschosen successor of Marcian. His expeditions BYZANTINE A RC H IT IXTUR E
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iALATlXl-: CIlAiKL AT iALERMO BYZANTINE EMPIRE against the Vandals (467) were unsuccessful.His grandson Leo II. succeeded, but survivedonly a few months, when Zeno, the father ofLeo, who had previously been appointed hiscolleague, became sole emperor (474). Thegovernment of this weak emperor, who washated by his subjects, was disturbed by re-bellions and internal disorders of the empire.The Goths depopulated the provinces till theirking Theodoric turned his arms against Italy(489). Ariadne, widow of Zeno, raised theminister Anastasius, whom she married, to thethrone (491). The nation, once excited to dis-contents and tumults, could not be entirely ap-peased by the alleviation of their burdens andby wise decrees. The forces of the empire,being thus weakened, could not offer an effec-tual resistance to the Persians and the Bul-garians along the Danube. To prevent their in-cursions into the peninsula of Constantinople,Anastasius built the long wall, as it is called.After the death of Ana