Search results for "Manuel I of Constantinople" - New World Encyclopedia

author, gentleman philosopher, and patron of the arts. From c. 1305 to 1328 ... Metochites was a man of great learning and political acumen, with ...

The House of Nemanjić (Serbian: Немањићи, Nemanjići; Anglicized: ... Serbs, like any people, have a right to be proud of their history ...

Constantinople (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολη) was the capital ... history. Depending on the background of people, and their language ...

Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 ... be reissued when it was clear that Louis VII of France would be taking part ...

Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. Much of this territory ... There is no consensus on the starting date of the Byzantine period ...

or Estado da Índia) refers to the aggregate of Portugal's colonial ... sea and land routes to India with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, discovered ...

Bethlehem (Arabic: Bayt Lahm meaning “House of Meat” and Hebrew: ... Bethlehem lies 6 miles (10 km) south of Jerusalem, standing at an ...

The legends of Prester John (also Presbyter John), popular in Europe ... At first, Prester John was imagined to be in India, with tales of ...

The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Christian kingdom established in 1099 ... Initially, the kingdom was little more than a loose collection of ...

The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians ...

Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess ... Her contemporaries included Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, (Peter Abelard ...

the 95 Theses and nailed them to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...

the Thermaic Gulf, at the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. It is Greece ... The city was founded in 315 B.C.E. by Cassander of Macedon, and was ...

), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ... Modern Greece, a developed country and a member of the European Union ...

Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward held the title of Prince ...

Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...

The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth ... The nucleus of the Aztec Empire was the Valley of Mexico, where the ...