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Byzantine Creation Era

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Accounts in Byzantine Authors
==Accounts in Byzantine Authors==
From Justinian's decree in AD 537 onwards, the unification of the theological date of creation with the administrative system of [[Indiction]] cycles is seen, and was referred to commonly amongst [[w:Category:Byzantine historians|Byzantine authors]], to whom the [[indiction]] was the standard measurement of time (''see reference #4 below'').
 
'''Doukas'''
:"The queen of cities fell to the Latins on the twelfth day of the month of April of the '''seventh [[indiction]] in the year 6712''' [1204]."<ref>Niketas Choniates. ''O City of Byzantium, Annals of Niketas Choniates.'' Transl. by Harry J. Magoulias. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1984. p.338</ref>
 
Thus the unification of the theological date of creation with the administrative system of [[Indiction]] cycles is seen, and was referred to commonly amongst [[w:Category:Byzantine historians|Byzantine authors]], to whom the [[indiction]] was the standard measurement of time.
==Comparative List of Dates of Creation==
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