Honorius
c. 384 CE–c. 423 CE · Istanbul
Honorius (384–423 CE), younger son of Theodosius I, was the first Western Roman emperor of the Theodosian dynasty after the empire was divided in 395, and for years he depended on the general Stilicho; during his reign Rome was sacked by the Visigoths under Alaric in 410. He continued the dynasty's promotion of Nicene Christianity, and by a rescript of 418 he banished the followers of Pelagius from the cities of Italy, lending imperial weight to the Western Church's condemnation of Pelagianism in the grace controversy associated with Augustine. His government also issued legislation affecting the Jews, including a law of 399 that forbade transmission of the tax collected for the Jewish Patriarch in the Land of Israel and confiscated funds already gathered, a measure he revoked in 404.
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Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), on the Bosphorus straddling Europe and Asia in modern Turkey, became the capital of the Ottoman Empire after its conquest by Mehmed II in 1453 and the seat of the Ottoman caliphate and the Shaykh al-Islam. The chief jurist Ebussuud Efendi (d. 1574) served there, and the polymath Katib Celebi (d. 1657) and the reformer Said Nursi (d. 1960) were active in the city.
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