Byzantine army

14th Century Byzantine Soldiers

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"Life's greatest joy is to scatter your enemies and drive them before you. To see their cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love them shrouded and in tears, and to then gather to your bosom their wives and daughters" - Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan (1162 - 1227) gathered…

Byzantine Soldiers in the Morea, 13th and 14th Century

Since a few years I've been thinking about the idea of Gondor, and obviously it's soldiers, looking somewhat like the Byzantines. I even made a drawing of Imrahil and his knights as cataphracts! Now I'm just trying to make illustrations following this idea. You could call this a project maybe? I'm really awful at making things like that. I make something one month, and then I make the continuation of it 6 months later because I get distracted with other ideas... If this was a historical…

Alp Arslan was the second sultan of the Seljuk Empire. Soon after he rose to power in 1064, he began his first campaign in the Caucasus. In 1065, he took Ani, the Armenian capital, and in 1068 he annexed several Georgian areas. In the same year, Romanos Diogenes – a soldier by profession – ascended the throne of Byzantine Empire and took steps against the Seljuks. His first two campaigns in 1068 and 1069 met some success. In 1071, he launched his third expedition, which culminated in the…

Klibanaphoroi

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