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- 3. communities or individuals who preserved the true faith (as defined by those councils), as opposed to those who were declared heretical.
- 7. the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law
- 8. an emperor of Russia before 1917
- 9. the male head of a family or tribe
- 11. A city founded by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great as capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire
- 12. a body of Mongols that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century and dominated Russia until 1486
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- 1. The alphabet used for writing the Russian language and several related languages
- 2. a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession
- 4. a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul
- 5. a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass.
- 6. a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia.
- 10. a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches.