Attarisiyaさんのイラストまとめ

Earlier armies of few knights conquered whole countries (Normans in Italy,Franks in Greece). Changes were introduced to SE Europe by the Catalan Company. First they destroyed an army of knights in Sicily in 1282 & between 1282-1311 any Turkish or Byzantine army they found.

Similarities between Homeric Epics and Gilgamesh Epic:
- Gilgamesh and Enkidu fight the giant Humbaba
- Odysseus and his companions fight the giant Cyclops

The administrative innovations for the state organization of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (935-612BC), military hierarchy & political bureaucracy, were so successful that remained constant for the greatest part of the civilized world until almost C19th.

Greece gridded population map

John of Ephesus in 580’s wrote that Slavs were part of the seventh climate, in which the sun rarely shone. Hence, their blonde hair, brutish character & rude ways of life. On the other hand, God was on their side punishing the Byzantines as persecutors of the Monophysites.

The purpose was to reclaim Sicily from the Arabs. Despite initial success, quarrels & desertions followed. Maniaces was recalled. He proclaimed emperor, but died in a skirmish while marching towards Constantinople. This campaign inspired Normans for the future conquest of Sicily.

The French knights of the Fourth Crusade after the fall of Constantinople, having some religious & aesthetics consciousness, spare and kept some luxuriously decorated relics. On the contrary their Flemish & German colleagues melted theirs to extract the golden parts, diamonds etc

The most prominent among them were:
- Harald Handraada (service 1034-43),
- Bolli Bolasson (1013-30)
- “Akolouthos” Michael (1037-64) and
- Harry ”The Inglinos" (1268-1288)

Info: Ilias Anagnostakis (FB)

King Pyrrhus of Epirus against the Romans (280-275BC). Hellenistic phalanx & war elephants against (early) legions.

The four leaders of Peloponnesus (Greek War of Independence): Kolokotronis, Yatrakos, Mavromihalis and Nikitaras.