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The theological date of creation was unified with the administrative system of [[Indiction]] cycles, and is referred to commonly amongst [[w:Category:Byzantine historians|Byzantine authors]], to whom the [[indiction]] was the standard measurement of time. By the late tenth century<ref>i.e. From the reign of Emperor Basil II (Βασίλειος Β' ο Βουλγαροκτόνο), who ruled from 976-1025, a period that saw the highest point of the Byzantine Empire in nearly five centuries. It was during this time (ca. 988) that the [[w:Coptic calendar|''Alexandrian System'']] was no longer used in Byzantium.</ref> a unified system was widely recognized(in preference over the [[w:Coptic calendar|Alexandrian]]), according to which the world was created 5508 years before the [[Incarnation]], so that the date of [[Jesus Christ|Christ's]] birth was in the year 5509 ''Annus Mundi'' (AM) - the year since the creation of the world.<ref>Paul Stephenson. ''"Translations from Byzantine Sources: The Imperial Centuries, c.700-1204: [http://homepage.mac.com/paulstephenson/trans/scyl2.html John Skylitzes, "Synopsis Historion"'': ''The Year 6508, in the 13th Indiction: the Byzantine dating system]"''. November 2006.</ref>. Thus historical time was calculated from the creation, and not from Christ's birth, as in the west.