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3 days ago · He was responding to requests for military support from the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos that he received during the earlier Council of Piacenza. Alexios was fighting Turkish people who were migrating into Anatolia, threatened Constantinople and had formed the Seljuk Empire. Urban expressed two key objectives for the crusade.
6 days ago · I say that the emperor Alexios could be blamed for over-generous concessions here, as indeed he has been, but I was not offering analysis of the treaty and its effect on Byzantine commerce per se. On pp. 114-15 I discuss the treaty in the context of John II's conflict with Venice in 1119-26 as essential background to the run up to the Fourth ...
16 hours ago · In 1091, the Pechenegs, a semi-nomadic Turkic people of the prairies of southwestern Eurasia, were decisively defeated as an independent force at the Battle of Levounion by the combined forces of a Byzantine army under Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and a Cuman army under Togortok/Tugorkan and Boniak. Attacked again in 1094 by the Cumans, many ...
5 days ago · Alexios I. Komnenos (1057–1118), Kaiser von Byzanz Quelle: Wikipedia/Public Domain Bereits als junger Mann hatte sich Alexios als Heerführer ausgezeichnet.
4 days ago · The Sultanate of Rûm [a] was a culturally Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim state, established over conquered Byzantine territories and peoples ( Rûm) of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks following their entry into Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert (1071). The name Rûm was a synonym for the medieval Eastern Roman Empire and its peoples, as it ...
3 days ago · A big number of crusaders were able to march to Jerusalem. Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos took advantage of the situation and took Eastern Anatolia back from the Seljuk Empire. However, the 2nd and 3rd crusades were unsuccessful. Saladin and the Islamic rulers neutralized the Crusaders and took Jerusalem back.
4 days ago · Namedays are a special and important part of Greek life because the very names themselves go back to the very beginning of Greek culture. Coming down to us through the ages are the marvelous names of heroes, saints and mythological figures such as the mighty Heraklis, Odysseus, Alexander, Socrates, Plato, Constantine, Helen and many many more ...
