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Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204 Benjamin Arbel, Bernard Hamilton, David Jacoby
Publisher: Taylor & Francis

We must not forget the mosaic discovered not long ago in Turkey and, yes, there is another gap to fill after 1204, where the Templar connection can help and hopefully some more evidence will surface soon. Jul 22, 2007 - In 1453 CE, the city of Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire. The conquest was one of history's turning points. Jan 18, 2014 - See too Carlo Maria Mazzucchi "La testimonianza piú antica dell' esistenza di una Sindone a Costantinopoli," Aevum, 57 (1983) 227‑231, which provides the original Greek of the salient portions of the letter of 958. In the event, it became controlled by the Duchy of Athens. After the dissolution and partition of the Greek Empire by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Aegina was accorded to the Republic of Venice. Jul 12, 2012 - Now, sometimes knowledge of the cultures and histories of the surrounding, non-Graeco-Roman world can be useful to the Classicist, such as the mythologies and epics of the Near Eastern world for students of Greek mythology and epic. Aug 19, 2013 - Specifically, the Indians in these regions then were living in the Stone Age, and only after 1500 BC began to use limited amounts of copper - and those only for jewelry. Nov 14, 2012 - The Roman Empire (Latin: IMPERIVM ROMANVM) was the post-Republican period of ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean in Europe, Africa, and Asia. At various points); when, in the Romance regions, people no longer thought of themselves as Latin speakers; economically, when the Mediterranean economy had broken down or when feudalism had emerged … and so on. This marks the beginning of the Frankokratia[1], Despite eager participation by western nobles, the Latin Empire was unable to face its vast problems and rapidly declined after serious defeats against the Bulgarians and the Greeks. In 1204 events had conspired to lead the Fourth Crusade off its path, ending with its capture of Constantinople from the Eastern Roman Empire and the establishment of the so-called Latin Empire. An Empire Beleaguered--having a single ruler endowed with supreme legal and religious authority prevented the breakup of the Eastern Empire into petty principalities (as was the case with the Western Empire--the worsening relations with the bishops of Rome and western princes limited the support for Byzantium when it was most needed; by 1054, religious differences between the eastern Christian churches and the Latin Church in the .. During the next century Aegina . Jul 10, 2013 - During the naval expansion of Aegina during the Archaic Period, Kydonia was an ideal maritime stop for Aegina's fleet on its way to other Mediterraneanports controlled by the emerging sea-power Aegina. In 360 until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire.