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1 day ago · The Virgin Mary rising from among the walls of Constantinople. Coin of Michael VIII Palaiologos, commemorating the recapture of Constantinople in 1261. During the siege of the city by the Fourth Crusade, the sea walls nonetheless proved to be a weak point in the city's defences, as the Venetians managed to storm them.
- History of the Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire 's history is generally periodised from...
- Constantine the Great
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- History of the Byzantine Empire
23 hours ago · Credit: Ed88, CC BY-SA 3.0 Wikipedia Mystras: Byzantine architecture in Greece. Mystras’ unique architecture was influenced by the so-called “Helladic” school of Byzantine architecture as well as that of the great city of Constantinople. The paintings inside the churches reflect the quality and the eclecticism of the art of Constantinople.
23 hours ago · In 1453, the Ottomans besieged Constantinople in an attempt to topple the Byzantine Empire. Though many thought the siege would fail, they underestimated good old human forgetfulness.
This allowed Constantinople to be resupplied by sea, while the Arab army was crippled by famine and disease during the unusually hard winter that followed. In spring 718, two Arab fleets sent as reinforcements were destroyed by the Byzantines after their Christian crews defected, and an additional army sent overland through Asia Minor was ...
4 days ago · The Black Death is widely believed to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Modern genetic analyses indicate that the strain of Y. pestis introduced during the Black Death is ancestral to all extant circulating Y. pestis strains known to cause disease in humans.
