WebThis history of the Byzantine Empire covers the history of the Eastern Roman Empire from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. Several events from the 4th to 6th centuries mark the transitional period during which the Roman Empire's east and west divided.In 285, the emperor Diocletian (r. 284–305) partitioned the Roman Empire's …

WebGeoffrey of Villehardouin was a knight and historian who wrote his eyewitness account De la Conquête de Constantinople (c. 1215) of the crusade and its aftermath. Voltaire did not call it a crusade in his Histoire des Croisades, instead calling it the Suite de la Prise de Constantinople par les Croisés.

WebThe siege of Rhodes of 1522 was the second and ultimately successful attempt by the Ottoman Empire to expel the Knights of Rhodes from their island stronghold and thereby secure Ottoman control of the Eastern Mediterranean.The first siege in 1480 had been unsuccessful. Despite very strong defenses, the walls were demolished over the course …

WebNostradamus was born on either 14 or 21 December 1503 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, France, where his claimed birthplace still exists, and baptized Michel. He was one of at least nine children of notary Jaume (or Jacques) de Nostredame and Reynière, granddaughter of Pierre de Saint-Rémy who worked as a physician in Saint-Rémy. …

WebThe Cretan War (Greek: Κρητικός Πόλεμος, Turkish: Girit'in Fethi), also known as the War of Candia (Italian: Guerra di Candia) or the Fifth Ottoman–Venetian War, was a conflict between the Republic of Venice and her allies (chief among them the Knights of Malta, the Papal States and France) against the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States, because …

WebThe Seventh Crusade (1248–1254) was the first of the two Crusades led by Louis IX of France.Also known as the Crusade of Louis IX to the Holy Land, it aimed to reclaim the Holy Land by attacking Egypt, the main seat of Muslim power in the Near East.The Crusade initially met with success but ended in defeat, with most of the army – including the king …

WebLes langues romanes, aussi appelées langues latines [1], [2] ou, plus rarement, langues néo-latines [3], [4], [5], sont un groupe de langues issues du latin vulgaire, plus précisément du latin véhiculaire [6].D'abord utilisées pour la communication sur toute l'étendue de l'Empire romain, les langues romanes ont connu une expansion mondiale à partir du XV …

WebFeres (Greek: Φέρες) is a town and a former municipality in the Evros regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece.Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Alexandroupoli, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 411.160 km 2. Population 8,551 (2011).

WebBizans İmparatorluğu veya Doğu Roma İmparatorluğu ya da kısaca Bizans, Geç Antik Çağ ve Orta Çağ boyunca Roma İmparatorluğu'nun devamı şeklinde var olan ve başkenti Konstantinopolis (günümüzde İstanbul, önceleri Byzantion) olan ülke. 5. yüzyılda Batı Roma İmparatorluğu'nun dağılışı ve çöküşü sürecinden sonra ayakta kalan imparatorluk, …

WebEn sus últimos años en Salon de Provence, [8] Nostradamus sufría de insuficiencia cardiaca, [8] artritis y gota. [9] Hacia 1566, la gota se convirtió en un edema cardiopulmonar, que le causaría la muerte. [8] A finales de junio de 1566, hizo llamar al notario Roche para redactar su testamento. [8] Al amanecer del 2 de julio de 1566, su secretario, Jean de …