Across
- 7. the former name for Istanbul, a city that was the capital of Turkey until 1923
- 8. one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people OR a man who is father or founder
- 9. the division or conflict in the Roman Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417, when there were rival popes at Avignon and Rome OR the separation of the Eastern Church from the Western Church
- 11. a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns
- 12. one of the vast usually level and treeless tracts in southeastern Europe or Asia
Down
- 1. an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, etc.)
- 2. a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century
- 3. the collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I
- 4. a body of Mongols that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century and dominated Russia until 1486
- 5. branch of the Orthodox Church constituting the national church of Greece
- 6. the ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution
- 10. a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere