After the establishment of the Arab caliphate, the Byzantine Empire found itself facing a fanatical and stubborn opponent on its eastern borders. The Arabs carried out destructive raids at regular intervals in Asia Minor throughout the 8th and 9th centuries in an attempt to spread, through jihad, ho
The naval battle of the Echinades was the last naval victory of the Byzantine Empire. Opponents were the fleet of the Empire under Dimitrios Laskaris Leontarios and the fleet of the Latin dynasty of Lefkada-Zakynthos-Kefalonia and western Greece Carlo I Toco. In the 15th century, the Frankish co
From the hand of the military historian Rubén Sáez we start a new section called Building the story . In addition to being the author of several books, my countryman Rubén is responsible for Trebuchet Park in Albarracín (Teruel) , a theme park, an international benchmark in the field of research and
Although there were European incursions into the Canary Islands since the 13th century, it was not until the beginning of the 15th century that colonization or conquest began... with the corresponding evangelization of the aborigines and their sale as slaves. But here the evangelizing and economic i