- The name
Basil (royal, kingly)
comes from the male Gr**** name V****ilios (Gr****: Βασίλειος,
female version Bασιλεία),
which first appeared during the ****enistic...
- Stoa
Basileios (Ancient Gr****: στοὰ βασίλειος),
meaning Royal Stoa, was a
Doric stoa in the
northwestern corner of the
Athenian Agora,
which was built...
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Basil Zaharoff (born
Zacharias Basileios Zacharoff; 6
October 1849 – 27
November 1936) was a Gr**** arms
dealer and industrialist. One of the
richest men...
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Abuna Basilios (23
April 1891 – 13
October 1970) was an Ethiopian-born
first Archbishop or Abuna, and
later the
first Patriarch, of the
Ethiopian Orthodox...
- and the latter's submission, and a
power struggle against the
eunuch Basileios, who was
dismissed in 985. Basil, who for
unknown reasons never married...
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considered for the papacy. His
baptismal name was
Basil (Gr****: Βασίλειος,
Basileios or Basilios). He took the name
Bessarion upon
entering the monastery....
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Basil Mesardonites (Gr****: Βασίλειος Μεσαρντονίτης, died 1016) was the
Catapan of Italy,
representing the
Byzantine Emperor there, from 1010 to 1016 or...
- In ancient/medieval/Byzantine context, it is also
transliterated as
Basileios. It is
directly descended from the word "King", Gr****: Βασιλιάς. It descends...
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Basil II
Porphyrogenitus (Gr****: Βασίλειος Πορφυρογέννητος
Basíleios Porphyrogénnetos; 958 – 15
December 1025),
nicknamed the
Bulgar Slayer (Gr****: ὁ...
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Basil Vatatzes (Gr****: Βασίλειος Βατάτζης, romanized: Vasileios Vatatzēs, fl. c. 1187–1194) was a
Byzantine military commander, and
likely the
father of...
