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Baghdad was founded in 762 by al-Mansur, the second caliph of the Abbasid dynasty, which had recently overthrown the empire of the Umayyads. Al-Mansur believed that the new Abbasid Caliphate needed a new capital city, located away from potential threats and near the dynasty's power base in Persia.
Iranian armies invaded the two territories in March 1614, and the two allied kings subsequently sought refuge in the Ottoman vassal Imeretia. [1] Abbas, as reported by the Safavid court historian Iskander Beg Munshi, was infuriated by what was perceived as the defection of two of his most trusted subjects and gholams. [7]
1322 Golden Empire Tower (formerly known as 1322 Roxas Boulevard) is a 57-storey residential skyscraper in Manila, Philippines. It is owned by Moldex Land, Inc., part ...
List of the main battles in the history of the Ottoman Empire are shown below. The life span of the empire was more than six centuries, and the maximum territorial extent, at the zenith of its power in the second half of the 16th century, stretched from central Europe to the Persian Gulf and from the Caspian Sea to North Africa.
Altair: A Record of Battles (Japanese: 将国のアルタイル, Hepburn: Shōkoku no Arutairu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kotono Kato [].It tells the story of Tuğril Mahmut, a young military officer and his exploits to protect his country from invasion by a neighboring empire.
The siege of Osaka (大坂の役, Ōsaka no Eki, or, more commonly, 大坂の陣 Ōsaka no Jin) was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages, the winter campaign and the summer campaign, it lasted from 1614 to 1615.
The defenders were either taken as hostages or fell in battle while some of the populace, including Theodosios, were taken prisoner. The Byzantine patrikios , who commanded the defense, surrendered with a few of his men, but they were executed after a week, while a handful of soldiers escaped and brought the news east to the fleet that had ...
After the fall of his home, Kyros becomes Mahmut's traveling companion and joins him in his efforts to stop the Balt-Rhein Empire, hoping to one day to reclaim his homeland. In comparison to the more naïve and polite Mahmut, Kyros is more street-wise, sarcastic, and temperamental, though he is able to conduct himself in formal matters.