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Category: History
Which Greek stronghold with Catholic administration was the last to survive the Ottoman conquest: Crete, Cyprus or other?
As I pointed out in commenting Niko Vasileas’ answer, the Morea was reconquered by the Venetians after close to two centuries of Ottoman rule, whereas Tinos was under continuous Venetian rule right through to 1715. Add to this the odd situation of the Ionian Islands. They remained under Venice until 1797. Then they fell under […]
What sort of crime was punished by Scaphism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism You’ve linked to (and read) the English language Wikipedia article in the Question Details. From the English and German Wikipedia articles, we actually don’t know anything else about scaphism: it was described once in Plutarch, and then recapitulated in Eunapius and Zonaras, Byzantine sources. We don’t even know if it was something the Persians […]
How many times was the City, I Polis, taken: two or three?
… I come into this knowing only an outline of Byzantine History, and Wikipedia. But, to focus on what the question details say: Constantinople fell to the Crusaders in 1203/1204, to the Niceans in 1261, and to the Ottomans in 1453. The Siege of Constantinople (717–718) by the Arabs was unsuccessful. The Siege of Constantinople […]
Which people have half Gothic half Slavic blood: Sorbians, others, or no one?
No idea whether the Sorbs are part-Gothic, or even how you could tell. I have another, more obscure instance though. Gothic survived in Gothia (Principality of Theodoro) in the Crimea, up until the 16th century. Gothic shifted in the Crimea to Greek. In fact, the Gothic speakers that Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq recorded were giving […]
Why are the Persian Wars important to the Greeks?
The only time the city-states of Ancient Greece rallied to a common cause Therefore, a formative event in the understanding of Greek identity (not least, because it was defined as not-barbarian) Leaving out the inconvenient fact that the Greeks of Ionia had long accommodated themselves to Persian rule A formative event in the history of […]
Are there any Greek towns built along the Acheron river in Greece?
I don’t know the answer, but I do know how to read Greek Wikipedia: Αχέρων – Βικιπαίδεια The Acheron was considered a river of Hades in antiquity. Which makes sense, given that Epirus, where it is located, was nowheresville to the Ancient Greeks. This also exaggerated their sense of its importance: far from being the […]
Which is the origin of Aromanians?
Ah yes. There isn’t enough of a bulls-eye on my back in Quora already. There are two schools of thought on the origin of Aromanians, as discussed in Wikipedia: A1. The Aromanians are descendants of Greeks (or at least, Greek-speakers) who were Latinised during Roman rule. A2. Slight variant on this: the Aromanians are descendants […]
Which Byzantine stronghold was the last to survive the Ottoman conquest?
The last Greek-ish state to fall to the Ottoman Empire was the Principality of Theodoro, in 1475. You know of it as Gothia: it’s in the Crimea, where Gothic survived to be recorded in the 16th century, before yielding to Greek. The Greek of the Crimea in turn survives as Mariupol Greek. But the Principality […]
Did the Orthodox Christian church have any equivalent to the Protestant movement?
Patriarch Cyril Lucaris made overtures towards Calvinist theologians in the 1620s, and many though not all specialists believe he was pursuing a reform of the church along Calvinist lines. His contemporaries certainly thought so, and attributed the Calvinist Confession of Cyril Lucaris to him. The Synod of Jerusalem (1672) repudiated both the Confession, and Cyril’s […]
Which was the most southern border city of Byzantine Empire, before Arab conquest?
Since Andrew has blocked me, I have to add a correction here to Dimitris Sotiropoulos on https://www.quora.com/Which-was-… Iotabe is identified tentatively with Tiran Island, 27°57′N 34°33′E Syene is Aswan, 24°05′20″N 32°53′59″E Berenice Troglodytica is 23°54′38″N 35°28′34″E So Iotabe is not the southernmost point, unless Dimitris has evidence for an alternate identification of Iotabe as being […]