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year
Part of
710s
Followed by
718
Follows
716
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Commons category
717
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Category:717
point in time
0717-01-01
category for births in this time period
Category:717 births
category for deaths in this time period
Category:717 deaths

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The Byzantine Empire (717) with its themes Leo III (left) and his son Constantine V

Year 717 (DCCXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 717 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “717” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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