Greek community in Venice

The Greek community in Venice dates back to the Middle Ages, when the Republic of Venice was still formally part of the Byzantine Empire. Settled mostly in the sestiere of Castello, it reached its height in the centuries after the Fall of Constantinople, when many Greeks, including merchants, soldiers, and scholars, fled the Ottoman conquest. Tied to the Greek world through its extensive overseas possessions, the city became a major center for Greek education and the Modern Greek Enlightenment, but declined after the Fall of the Venetian Republic and the establishment of the modern Greek state. The community's property is now largely owned and managed by the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice.

Ikhtiyar al-Din Hasan ibn Ghafras

Ikhtiyar al-Din Hasan ibn Ghafras or Ikstiyar al-Din Hasan ibn Gavras was a courtier and long-time vizier of the Seljuk Sultan of Iconium, Kilij Arslan II

Dhuka al-Rumi

Dhuka al-Rumi was a Byzantine Greek who served the Abbasid Caliphate as governor of Egypt in 915–919

Yahya of Antioch

Yahya of Antioch, full name Yaḥya ibn Saʿīd al-Anṭākī, was a Melkite Christian physician and historian of the 11th century

Al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah

Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥākim, better known with his regnal name al-Zāhir li-iʿzāz Dīn Allāh, was the seventh caliph of the Fatimid dynasty (1021–1036). Al-Zahir assumed the caliphate after the disappearance of his father al-Hakim bi-Amr

Nikolaos Rokas

Nikolaos Rokas was a Greek soldier who rose to the rank of lieutenant general

Kourtikios

Kourtikios or Kourtikes (Κουρτίκης) was the name of a Byzantine aristocratic family of Armenian origin

Logothetes ton sekreton

The logothetēs tōn sekretōn was an official supervising all the sekreta of the Byzantine Empire during the Komnenian period. In the early 13th century, his office evolved into the megas logothetes

Constantine Maniakes

Constantine Maniakes was a senior Byzantine court official of the mid-9th century

George Choumnos

George Choumnos was a Byzantine statesman

Constantine Margarites

Constantine Margarites was a senior military officer and courtier of the Empire of Nicaea in the mid-13th century