The so-called Annual disaster represented the beginning of the final crisis of the Restoration system. This important military defeat, in the context of the Moroccan War, served to question some of the fundamental pillars of the Restoration regime, from the army to the dynastic parties, splashing ev
It must have been around 3:00 p.m. when the 3rd company, under the command of Deputy Athanasios Mamalis, set out to take up positions in front of the Kalampaki hill to attack and capture the hill that unlocked the Turkish enclave of Agyrtas - Kioneli from the west. Together with Minister Damianidis
Intro On this day in November 1095, despite the cold and the snow falling on the mountain surrounding Clermont, capital of Auvergne, a large crowd had gathered for the arrival of Pope Urban II. When he spoke from the top of a simple wooden platform, there was a great silence. Everyone guessed that
In the year 1110 the Almoravids conquered the Taifa of Zaragoza . However, in that territory they ran into a very dangerous rival, the king of Aragon Alfonso I (1104-1134), known as the Battler. Alfonso I, apparently had in his mind the idea of carrying out a crusade, which would begin in Hispania