The academic world has sought to contrast the image of an Edenic al-Andalus with that of a fanatical, backward and genocidal Spain How did the Christians of Al Andalus disappear? This was the life and resistance of the Mozarabs. The Arab leader Almanzor captured Christian slaves in his military r
Cyprus, in its centuries-long historical course, has known many foreign dynasties. It was severed from the national trunk in 1191 AD. after its capture by the Crusaders of the 3rd Crusade. Since then it passed successively under the rule of the Lusignan house and then of Venice. In 1571 it was occup
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
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.