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Byron Preiss
Byron Preiss (1953-2005), American book packager and publisher; founded Byron Preiss Visual Publications (1974) and iBooks (1999); known for graphic novels and The Secret treasure hunt book (1982).
Byron White
Byron "Whizzer" White (1917–2002), NFL rushing leader and Rhodes Scholar, was a Kennedy-appointed U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice 1962–1993 known for judicial restraint and dissents in Miranda and Roe.
Bystander effect
Bystander effect: people are less likely to help in an emergency when others are present. Named by Latané and Darley after the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder; meta-analytic g = −0.35, attenuated in dangerous emergencies.
Byte order mark
Byte order mark (BOM), U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE, the Unicode signature placed at a file's start: EF BB BF in UTF-8, FF FE/FE FF in UTF-16, indicating endianness and encoding.
Byte Shop
The Byte Shop was an American computer store chain founded by Paul Terrell in Mountain View, California, in 1975, and the first to order the Apple I.
Byton
Byton (拜腾汽车) was a Chinese-German electric vehicle startup founded in 2016 by former BMW executives in Nanjing, known for its M-Byte SUV and for never delivering a production car.
Byung-Chul Han (변창흠)
Byung-Chul Han (Korean name form unverified; inherited 변창흠 likely a different person), Korean-German philosopher born Seoul 1959, professor at Universität der Künste Berlin, author of The Burnout Society and critiques of achievement, transparency and psychopolitics.
Byzantine annexation of Armenia
The Byzantine annexation of Armenia was the incorporation of the last independent Armenian kingdom, centered on Ani, into the Byzantine Empire in 1045, ending Bagratid rule.
Byzantine army
The Byzantine army, or Eastern Roman army, was the land force of the Byzantine Empire from the fourth century to 1453, evolving from late Roman field armies through the thematic system to a mercenary force, documented in manuals like the Strategikon.
Byzantine conquest of Antioch
The Byzantine conquest of Antioch (فتح أنطاكية) was the capture of Antioch from the Hamdanid dynasty by the Byzantine Empire on 28 October 969, after a long blockade.
Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria
The Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria (Κατάκτηση της Βουλγαρίας) was the war, fought from 986 to 1018, by which Emperor Basil II destroyed Tsar Samuel's Bulgarian state and annexed its lands.
Byzantine diplomacy
Byzantine diplomacy was the East Roman Empire's management of foreign relations through envoys, ceremony, and intelligence rather than standing embassies, from the 7th to the 15th century.
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire (330–1453) was the Greek-speaking, Christian Roman Empire ruled from Constantinople; its citizens called themselves Rhomaioi, and it ended with the Ottoman conquest in 1453.
Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty
The Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty, also known as the Palaiologan era, ruled from 1261, when Constantinople was recovered from the Latin Empire, until 1453.
Byzantine Greeks
Byzantine Greeks: Greek-speaking Orthodox inhabitants of the medieval Eastern Roman Empire who called themselves Romaioi (Romans); "Byzantine" is Wolf's sixteenth-century label, with Hellenic identity reviving in late Byzantium.
Byzantine Iconoclasm
Byzantine Iconoclasm (Εἰκονομαχία) was the 726–787 and 815–843 Byzantine dispute over religious images, launched by Leo III, codified at Hieria 754, reversed at Nicaea II 787, and ended in 843.
Byzantine manuscript illumination
Byzantine manuscript illumination is the painted decoration of handwritten Greek books produced in the Byzantine Empire from 324 to 1453; famous examples include the Vienna Genesis and the Paris Psalter.
Byzantine mosaics
Byzantine mosaics are wall, vault, and floor decorations of the Eastern Roman Empire, made from the fourth century to 1453 and famed for shimmering gold church interiors.
Byzantine music (Βυζαντινή μουσική)
Byzantine music (Βυζαντινή μουσική), also called Byzantine chant, is the vocal, monophonic liturgical chant of the Eastern Orthodox Church, practiced for over 2,000 years and inscribed by UNESCO in 2019.
Byzantine Palestine
Byzantine Palestine: Palestine under Eastern Roman rule, 324–640 CE, divided into Palaestina Prima, Secunda, and Salutaris; Christianized Holy Land with pilgrimage economy, lost to Persians in 614 and Arabs in the 630s.
Byzantine reconquest of Sicily under George Maniakes (1038–1040)
The Byzantine reconquest of Sicily under George Maniakes (حملة جورج مانياك) was a 1038 to 1040 campaign, launched by Emperor Michael IV, that took Messina and eastern Sicily from its Arab rulers.
Byzantine Rite
The Byzantine Rite, also called the Constantinopolitan Rite, is the liturgical tradition of Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches, developed in Constantinople and Palestine and used by roughly 260 million Christians.
Byzantine Senate
The Byzantine Senate (Σύγκλητος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως) was the senate of Constantinople, the continuation of the Roman senate in the east, traditionally founded by Constantine I in 330.
Byzantine-Sasanian War of 540-562
The Byzantine-Sasanian War of 540-562 was a war between Justinian I's Byzantine Empire and Khosrow I's Sasanian Empire, opened by the plunder of Antioch in 540.
Byzantine–Abbasid diplomacy
Byzantine–Abbasid diplomacy was the formal conduct of relations between the Byzantine Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate from the 8th to the 10th centuries, through embassies, truces, and prisoner exchanges.
Byzantine–Arab treaties and truces
Byzantine–Arab treaties and truces were recurring, time-limited peace and tribute agreements between the Byzantine Empire and the Umayyad and Fatimid caliphates, beginning with the thirty-year treaty of 678.
Byzantine–Bulgarian Treaty of 927
The Byzantine–Bulgarian Treaty of 927 (Договор между Византия и България) ended the war between Bulgaria and Byzantium, recognizing Peter I as emperor of the Bulgarians.
Byzantine–Lakhmid treaty of 561
The Byzantine–Lakhmid treaty of 561 was the Arab-related section of the peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and Sasanian Persia, covering the rival Arab clients, the Lakhmids and Ghassanids.
Byzantine–Sasanian treaties and truces
The Byzantine–Sasanian treaties and truces were written settlements by which Byzantium and Sasanian Persia regulated their frontier, including the peaces of 363, 532, and 562.
Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628
The Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, also called the Final Roman-Persian War, began with Khosrow II's invasion of Byzantine land after Maurice's murder and ended with Heraclius's victory.