Although Eastern Roman emperors made annual payments to the neighboring peoples in an attempt to keep the peace in the Balkans, the Avars regularly invaded Scythia Minor from the 580s.
Some were exempted from tribute payment and Roman judicial jurisdiction.
Federal employees in 27 counties in Illinois can start enrolling in a health insurance plan run by Roman Catholic nuns that excludes payment for contraceptives, abortion, sterilization and artificial insemination.
Sweden agreed to turn over her possessions in Livonia in return for a payment by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II.
The report was published a month after the Dutch branch of the Roman Catholic Church announced a system to compensate victims with payments of up to $138,000.
Founded originally in 2005 by Roman Scharf and Daniel Mattes (who then went on to found payments company Jumio), it was backed with $33 million from the likes of Sequoia, Intel and Deutsche Telekom's T-Venture.
Indeed, the tax in Germany is blamed in part for driving about three million members from the ranks of the Roman Catholic Church over the past two decades, as disgruntled parishioners decided the payments were better spent on something else.
The dye was often part of the tribute paid to conquering Roman armies, and, in the Middle Ages, landlords accepted it as payment for rent.
When he was assassinated, the Romans bought her back with a payment of corn, then forced her to marry a Roman general named Constantius.
Lines of airmen, including, I regret to say, the worthy Roman Catholic French-Canadians, queued for their services, clutching such articles as tins of sardines for payment".
