Tetrarchy, which was started by Emperor Diocletian, returned to one-man rule by Emperor Constantine, but his successors began a divide-and-conquer rule and began a bloody battle. It was Emperor Julian who survived rather than controlled such a situation. Captive childhood Julians father was
In the last days of the Byzantine Empire, there were persons who played a role indulgently miserable and even treacherous. One of these persons who had an absolutely disastrous role was Georgios Amiroutzis. The closest, chronologically, testimony about him was that of the also pro-Turkish Critobu
According to popular superstition, it is good luck to be hit, usually on the head or shoulders, by a pigeons intestinal waste. Well, the explanation may have to be found in the election of Pope Fabian in 236. After the death of Pope Antero, martyred by Emperor Maximin Thracian who had reactivated t
In 1366, the Byzantine Empire was, by euphemism, a state. The Ottomans, after capturing the Gallipoli peninsula in 1354, secured a stable bridgehead in Europe which the Byzantines tried in vain to recover. With Gallipoli as their base, the Turks rapidly expanded into the former Thracian and Maced