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What if:Andronikos I Komnenos is succeeded by his capable first son Manuel before the massacre of the Latins. There was a lot of interesting discussion yesterday at how you could prevent the fall of 1204 and most proposed killing Andronikos.Did some digging through and found an interesting personality from the Komnenos dynasty that could turn ...
1 day ago · The Sultanate of Rûm [a] was a culturally Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim state, established over conquered Byzantine territories and peoples ( Rûm) of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks following their migration and entry into Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert (1071). The name Rûm was a synonym for the medieval Eastern Roman Empire and its ...
2 days ago · Firstly, to set the stage, it is worth offering a brief introduction to the Alexiad itself. This is a work imbued with socio-political significance – written by Anna Komnene, the first-born daughter of the emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1081–1118), who is the focal point (and namesake) of her historical epic.
4 days ago · The Republic of Venice ( Italian: Repubblica di Venezia; Venetian: Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic, [a] traditionally known as La Serenissima, [b] was a sovereign state and maritime republic in parts of the present-day Italian Republic that existed for 1,100 years from 697 until 1797. [2]
4 days ago · John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was the King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th ...
- 27 May 1199 – 19 October 1216
- Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine
Apr 15, 2021 · The Bronx. New York’s northernmost borough takes its name from a Swedish sea captain turned farmer, Jonas Bronck. Bronck purchased land and built a farmstead at what is now 132nd Street and ...
4 days ago · As to 20th-century popes, six ( i.e., Pius X, Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II) out of nine are either saints or somewhere along the process and talk around Vatican watercoolers is that Pius XI is going to become part of this Magnificent Seven. When we examine the names of popes who are santi, beati, venerabili and ...
