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It wasn’t until a.d. 330, however, when the newly converted Emperor Constantine made Byzantium, renamed Constantinople, capital of his Eastern Empire that Christianity was assured of its dominant role in future Greek life.
In this fairly homogeneous population, all of the women were of European or Eastern European decent.
Now Eastern and Midwestern Republicans tend to blend together in opposition to more conservative Southern Republicans (a subspecies that didn't exist before) and conservative Westerners on Rust Belt issues such as acid rain.
There is also the learned guess, as in the etymology for groundhog , the Midland name for the eastern woodchuck, which may be a calque from Dutch aertoercken , and archaic variant of aardvarken , literally `earth pig'; or hieronymous , a euphemism for the posterior, which may derive from Greek hieron osteon , the name for the sacrum; or the southern Appalachian expression to come out of the little end of the horn meaning `to be unlucky,' which is probably an allusion to a “reverse” cornucopia.
The Soviet eastern sector covered just under half the city’s area.