- PALÆOLOGUS
- the name of a Byzantine family, several members of which attained imperial dignity, the last of the dynasty dying in 1453; they came into prominence in the 11th century.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
PALÆOLOGUS
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