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Here we present selected parts of the very informative paper titled “Byzantium and Bulgaria: How an Empire Created its Greatest Threat“, by Conor Roan Continue reading “East Rome and Bulgaria: The Empire creates its greatest threat”
Here we shortly present monuments from the Haidian region of Beijing, China. Continue reading “China – Beijing – Haidian”
Here we shortly present monuments from the Changping region of Beijing, China. Continue reading “China – Beijing – Changping”
Here we present selected parts of the published paper “A new astronomical dating of the Trojan war’s end” , by Papamarinopoulos S., Preka-Papadema P., Mitropetros P., Antonopoulos P., Mitropetrou E., Saranditis G. Continue reading “Astronomical research suggests that the Trojan war ended on 6th of June 1218 B.C.”
Who were taught in the Byzantine Empire
St. Gregory Nazianzen confidently states: ‘I think that all those who have sense will acknowledge that education is the first of the goods we possess‘, and J. B. Bury was doubtless right in saying that in the Eastern Empire ‘every boy and girl whose parents could afford to pay was educated’, in contrast to the West where in the Dark Ages book learning was drawn from monastic sources. Continue reading “Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Education”
“All the Romans, both officers and soldiers, were far from entertaining any thought of confronting the enemy or standing in the way of their passage, but manning their strongholds as each one could, they thought it sufficient to preserve them and save themselves.” Continue reading “Difficulties in devising defenses in Syria – Disturbing precedents”
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