After the disastrous defeat at Manzikert in 1071, the Byzantine Empire faltered. The ascension to the throne of incompetent emperors and the civil conflicts that followed, exacerbated the weakening of the Empire. 10 years passed after the disaster before a remarkable soldier-emperor, Alexios I Komne
On the 11th of November, after sunset, while looking up at the sky, I became aware of the appearance of a new star, brighter than the others, located almost directly above my head. As I knew, almost from my childhood, perfectly the stars of the sky, I knew that there had never been any star in that
Entry extracted from the book The Plantagenets It could be thought that the leading role of Eleanor of Aquitaine after the death of her husband Henry II, with which the second entry dedicated to her ended, had ended with her accession to the throne of his son Richard. But neither the character of t
At the start of the war the Greek Army had 12,200 machine guns of three types. The Model 1915 Chauchat submachine gun was by far the worst submachine gun of all time, although it was used by almost all Allied armies in World War I. The Greek Army procured them in 1917 (about 3,500 of them). The r