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Palaeologan

Palaeologan is the alternative form of Palaiologan.

Meaning of Palaiologan

Noun

Palaiologan (plural Palaiologans)

  1. (historical) A member of the last ruling dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, which reigned from AD 1261 to AD 1453.
    • Scholars have also posited renaissances after the tenth century during the reign of the Komnenes in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and under the Palaiologans in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.2010, Liz James, A Companion to Byzantium, →ISBN, page 345

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Forms of Palaeologan

pluralPalaeologans

Questions about Palaeologan

What is Palaeologan the alternative form of?
Palaeologan is the alternative form of Palaiologan.

Words near Palaeologan in the dictionary

  1. palaeolimnology
  2. palaeolith
  3. palaeolithic
  4. palaeolithical
  5. palaeoliths
  6. Palaeologan
  7. Palaeologans
  8. Palaeologian
  9. Palaeologians
  10. palaeologic
  11. palaeological

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