Template talk:M1YearInTopic

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I don't get it, how is this built? --Striver 23:47, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Byzantine calendar

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As the article notes, the so-called "Byzantine calendar" is a calendar traditionally used by Eastern Orthodox Christians. One finds this usage currently as well - cf. for instance the website on "Orthodoxy in China" - [1]. In addition, plotting the correspondence of dates with the standard C.E. calendar would be a supremely useful tool for a historian, since, at least in Byzantine, Russian, Romanian et.al. history the "year of creation" dates continued to be widely used at least to late 17th century. For this reason, I would like to request that this dating system be placed into the calendrical correspondence charts which are provided for each article dealing with a given year. Thank you. 140.180.139.102 22:48, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

The Byzantine calendar is identical to the Julian calendar except that its year begins September 1, with its Anno Mundi year being AD/CE + 5509 from September 1 to December 31 and AD/CE + 5508 from January 1 to August 31. However, I do not see any use of AM years in the citation after a cursory check. — Joe Kress 22:07, 23 June 2007 (UTC)