Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian initiates iconoclastic... - Historystack

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Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian initiates iconoclastic movement in Constantinople, banning the worship of images, which becomes an important difference between the Roman and Byzantine churches

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Byzantine Empire

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Religion

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Byzantine Iconoclasm depicted in Chludov Psalter

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Milky Way, Solar System, Earth, Europe, Middle Ages, Religion and Philosophy, Religion, Christianity, History of Greece, Byzantine Empire, 8th Century, Byzantine Iconoclasm, 720s, Eastern Orthodox Church, Leo III the Isaurian, Year 726

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