“A violent and difficult personality”. It is in these terms that the historian Lucien Musset defines Robert the Magnificent ,6th Duke of Normandy (1). Violent, quick to draw his sword, the son of Duke Richard II was like all the great lords of his time. An ambiguous personality like that of Robert ,
When in 431 BC the Peloponnesian War broke out, none of the belligerents could have imagined that they would be involved in the longest and most ferocious civil conflict. The ferocity of the new civil war would indeed exceed in ferocity any previous one. For the first time in their history until the
On October 28, the Italians marched into the Pindos sector with the 3rd Alpinist Division Julia. The Italian Alpinists pushed back the Greek part of the Pindos Detachment and created, within the following days, a very dangerous enclave for the Greek formation. The Greek headquarters reacted by sendi
From the middle of the 11th century AD. the Hungarians raided the Byzantine lands trying to reach the shores of the Adriatic. Later, the Hungarians allied themselves with various Serbian governors, causing serious concern to the Byzantines who saw their dominance in the Western Balkans threatened.