From Athens to Morea: A Scholar compares Constantine Palaiologos to Themistocles

Czar Samuel of Bulgaria was one of the most formidable rulers in the Balkans during the turbulent late 10th and early 11th centuries.

The «Θρήνος περί Ταμυρλάγγου»  is a Byzantine poem of 1403 that recounts the atrocities caused by the literally unstoppable war machine...