Brief summary on Istanbul.

Brief summary on Kosovo.

A few facts and figures on Bosnia-Herzegovina.

A list of odd English words.

Synopsis of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations.

The death of magician three.

The death of magician two.

Kritovolous wrote a text which was preserved in the Ottoman archives depicting the Siege of Constantinople and its surrounding events. Unlike most histories of the period, the Ottoman leader Mehmed II was praised in his account. Was Kritovoulos simply writing a eulogy of Mehmed II in his account of the fall of Constantinople? or was their a deeper meaning for his adoration.

When Emperor Otto I went looking for a wife for his son, he wanted it to be a political statement. As the first Emperor from German stock, he was looking for acknowledgement by the other half of the Roman Empire. A princess of the house of Byzantium it had to be and nothing less. Once the goal was achieved, the newcomers went out of their way to show how much they appreciated the gesture.

The Teutonic Knights had been established in the Holy Land during the Third Crusade. In just over ten years, they amassed large holdings of land within the Holy Roman Empire, as well as lands in the Holy Land, France, and Eastern Europe. Their houses and hospitals were scattered over the continent and even into the Byzantine Empire.