NOF was not a simple separatist organization. Its members began attacks against the Greeks before the official outbreak of the Civil War, while during it they thickened the ranks of the DSE. According to some sources, the NOFites constituted up to 60% of the DSE forces on a case-by-case basis and ar
After the death of Nicholas IV, in April 1292, the conclave met to elect the new Pope but the College of Cardinals, made up of 12 members, was divided among the supporters of the Orsini and the Colonna , which made it impossible for any of the candidates proposed by each of the factions to outnumbe
Surely when reading the title of this article many of you have thought of the book Ambitions and Reflections -written by Belén Esteban- or A new life is possible -Written by her ex-mother-in-law Carmen Bazán-. Well no, these, even being pathetic, I think the only thing they can produce is embarrassm
The capture of Rhodes, the last Christian bastion of the East, momentarily awakened the pope and the European powers. Again, a Greek contributed to this awakening, Janos Laskaris, a descendant of the Laskarids, the imperial family of Nicaea. Another Laskaris would later play a catalytic role in the