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Procopius: How Justinian Ruined His Subjects
Emperor JustinianHow To Bankrupt An EmpireIn his The Wars of Justinian, the great historian Procopius gave us stunning first hand accounts of wars in Italy, North Africa and the Middle East.But in...
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Byzantine Castello Baradello in Italy
Byzantine Castello Baradello near the AlpsDefending Byzantine ItalyWith the Frankish Kingdom close by, the Castello Baradello was one of many border fortifications that protected the frontier of the...
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Byzantine Empire – Manuel I Aspron Trachy
Byzantine Gold CoinsMaking The World Go Around Since 395 AD(Coin Week) - In 1092 CE the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus enacted sweeping coinage reforms. He stopped production of previous...
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The Roman Army on the Eastern Front - Provincia Cappadocia
(Roman Empire.net)CappadociaThe Front Line Against PersiaRoman Province from 18 AD to the 7th centuryThe Eastern Front of the Roman Empire was in endless danger of invasion by the Persians. There were...
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Roman Empire vs Islam - First Contact
19th century photo of an Arab warrior. The Arabs invading the Roman Empire might have looked much like this warrior.Violent Islam roars in from the desertIn 629 AD the Roman Empire was enjoying a much...
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Roman - Byzantine Fortress of Sucidava
Sucidava fort Archaeological site in Romania.Protecting the Roman BalkansSucidava is the complex late Roman fort dating from the 2nd to the 6th century AD, which had a strategic, economic and...
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The Last Roman Legion - Legio V Macedonica
Legio V Macedonica reenactorsPhoto Roman Army Talk.comRome's Longest Lived LegionThe life of Legio V Macedonica spanned 680 years from 43 BC to 637 AD.For centuries historians have been excited by the...
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Sophia Palaiologina, The Last Byzantine Princess
The Grand Duchess of MoscowZoe (Sophia) Palaiologina, Grand Duchess of Moscow, was a niece of the last Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI and second wife of Ivan III of Moscow.The fall of Constantinople...
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Battle of Kalavrye - Eastern vs Western Empire Civil War
Byzantine InfantryCivil War Drains The EmpireIn 1078 AD the Byzantines squandered precious resources fighting each other instead of attacking the invading Muslim Turks.The great weakness of the Roman...
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The Roman Fort of Qasr Banat in Libya - The Limes Tripolitanus
Qasr Banat, fortified farm entranceThe Limes TripolitanusThe Limes Tripolitanus was a frontier zone of defence of the Roman Empire, built in the south of what is now Tunisia and the northwest of Libya....
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Roman Empire Military Organization (802 - 867 AD)
Byzantine Warrior - Davd Mele wearing his construction of an 11th C klivanion.(Pinterest.com)Defending an EmpireEastern Roman military history had suffered from a near total lack of proper histories...
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Byzantine Heavy Artillery
It is better to give than receiveRule #1 in life: you can find anything on the Internet.I stumbled on a long 1999 article about Byzantine artillery by George Dennis. The article, summarized below, adds...
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The missing Byzantine column of Venice
A gift to Venice from the Eastern Empire.The famous bronze winged lion atop the column on Piazzetta San Marco, where the piazza opens onto the end of the Grand Canal and the bacino—probably a...
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A Persian-Roman Army Fights Muslim Invaders
A 19th century Bedouin warriorThe Arab forces facing the Romans would look much like this soldier.(vikingsword.com)The Coming of IslamWhere is the great historian Procopius when you need him?We see an...
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Controlling The Population of Constantinople
Chariot races and games at Constantinople's Hippodrome were the center of social and political life in the city.Controlling the People of ConstantinopleNo information has come down to us of a proper...
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The Arab Siege of the Roman Fortress of Ragusium
The Roman Fortress of Ragusium (modern Dubrovnik).Defending Against Arab InvasionAccording to the De administrando imperio of the Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, the city was...
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Farming on Roman Empire Desert Frontier
Olive trees were a major Byzantine frontier crop It Takes an Economy to Support an EmpireI found this wonderful little Internet article on the economy of the desert frontier of the Roman Empire....
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Rome Collapses the Bulgarian Empire - Battle of Kleidion
Middle Byzantine Arms and ArmorVito Maglie of the group I Cavalieri de li Terre Tarentine wearing the 11th C reconstruction of the klivanion of St. Nestorius by Hellenic Armors.(pinterest)"Basil the...
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Defending Byzantine Spain - Limes in Spania
The Limitanei were the static frontier guard troops that replaced the legions in the fourth century CE. The Romans were responding to the fact their long Danube and Rhine frontiers were subject to...
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