When Urban II received a visit from an ambassador of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos Asking him for help in defeating the Seljuk Turks, the pope saw an opportunity to unite all of Christendom under one banner. So, he would not only lend aid to the emperor, but once the territory lost to the
Don Pelayo Asturian king. His origins are uncertain, it is believed that he was the son of a Gothic nobleman named Fávila. During the reign of Witiza he fell out with the Gothic king (the reasons are unknown) and exiled to the North, where the Goths never came to control the area. This is the fir
In parallel and for obvious reasons, the evolution of society always translated into an evolution of the Roman army. Even, on occasions, it was the mutations within the army that stimulated changes in society. Lastly, the majority are those cases in which it is difficult to determine which is the ch
This year 2019 marks five hundred years since the beginning of a great adventure that led to the transformation of the world in every way:the first circumnavigation of the planet, begun by the Portuguese at the service of the Spanish crown Ferdinand Magellan and culminated by the Spanish Juan Sebast