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Tag Archives: Anna Komnene
Tides of War: Byzantium’s Vacillating Imperial Fortunes – Part 9
Alexios Komnenos and the Crusaders “When Pope Urban had said these … things in his urbane discourse, he so influenced to one purpose the desires of all who were present, that they cried out ‘It is the will of God! … Continue reading
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Tagged Adriatic, Alexios I Komnenos, Anna Dalassena, Anna Komnene, Anna Komnenos, Antioch, Baghdad, Basil I, Bogomils, Bohemond, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Constantinople, Council of Clermont, Crusade, Crusader States, Crusaders, Damascus, First Crusade, Franks, Heraclius, Isaac Komnenos, Komnenian Restoration, Michael VII Doukas, Nicaea, Nikephoros III Botaneiates, Normans, Papacy, Paulicians, Pechenegs, Peter the Hermit, Pope, Robert Guiscard, Roger, Romanos IV Diogenes, Roussel de Bailleul, Seljuk, The Alexiad, Turks, Urban II, Vikings, William the Conqueror
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Tides of War: Byzantium’s Vacillating Imperial Fortunes – Part 8
The Seljuks and Manzikert “…the fortunes of the Roman Empire had sunk to their lowest ebb. For the armies of the East were dispersed in all directions, because the Turks had over-spread, and gained command of, nearly all the countries … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbasid, Alp Arslan, Anatolia, Andronikos Doukas, Anna Komnene, Arrows, Bishop of Rome, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Constantinople, Fatimid, Franks, Malazgirt, Manzikert, Nomads, Pecheneg, Pope, Roman Empire, Romani, Romanos IV Diogenes, Seljuk, Steppe, Sultan, Tagmata, The Alexiad, Turks, Varangian Guard
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