For the French Catholic Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, the king personified the state: “Tout l’État est en la personne du prince,” he wrote, or as the Sun King would say, “L’État c’est moi.” ...

MOSCOW — The Byzantine Empire fell in 1453. But you wouldn’t know it in Russia, where Vladimir V. Putin has been behaving as though the 15th century never ended, as though he is the direct ...

Some suggested one or more of the graves could be the remains of a Byzantine king. The burial sites have been dated to approximately 575AD, when England was still part of the Eastern Roman Empire.