It is believed that the emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081-1118) built the monastery there to commemorate the event.

Rome fell, bankrupted by statist controls and taxation, while its emperors were building coliseums.

The emperor built new fortresses and a palace in his new capital.

The next day we struck out for the elaborate royal mausoleums that the emperors built for themselves among the low hills south of town.

The emperor is building a fresh army and he needs both.

The emperor also built a total of seven churches; the first two, Fit Mikael and Fit Abbo, were built to end local epidemics.

The five emperors who followed him also built their palaces in the town.

P Map When those Byzantine emperors built something, they certainly did it properly!

Several successive emperors built pavilions and houses along the lake shores, where they would carry out government duties in the summer.

After this, successive emperors no longer build Imperial-prayer temples.