Antonel Dumitru

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Constantine XI (1449-1453) and the capture of Constantinople by the Turks Territories recognize the authority of the last Byzantine emperor in Constantinople were reduced, with its immediate surroundings in Thrace, and most of the Peloponnesus or Morea, at some distance from the capital, governed by brothers king. Honesty, nobility, power, manhood and patriotism were the …

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Saint John Cassian the Roman was born around 360, probably in Lesser Scythia (in Dacia Pontica). His pious Christian parents gave him an excellent classical education, and also instructed him in the Holy Scriptures and in the spiritual life. St John entered a monastery in the diocese of Tomis, where his friend and relative St …

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“Πόλις αρχαιοτάτη και τωνγε εν τη εώα πασών αρίστη” Ioánnis Evghenikós Trebizond is the end of the most difficult and less hospitable sea routes on the southern shore of Pontus: a line laced beginning of the exit of the Bosphorus – the most beautiful piece of land in the world – and goes to Colchis, …

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