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Laonikos Chalkokondyles

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Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Latinized as Laonicus Chalcondyles (Λαόνικος Χαλκοκονδύλης, from λαός "people", νικᾶν "to be victorious", an anagram of Nikolaos which bears the same meaning; c. 1430 – c. 1470), was a Byzantine Greek historian from Athens. [1]

61 relations: Alexander of Trebizond, Alexios III of Trebizond, Andronikos Palaiologos (son of Manuel II), Antonio II Acciaioli, Bagrationi, wife of John IV of Trebizond, Battle of Maritsa, Battle of Nish (1443), Byzantine literature, Chalkokondyles, Constantine XI Palaiologos, Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae, Dan I of Wallachia, David of Trebizond, Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Dobruja, Doukas (historian), Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Eudokia of Trebizond, François Eudes de Mézeray, Giammaria Biemmi, Gjergj Arianiti, Gjon Kastrioti, Greek scholars in the Renaissance, Helena Asanina Kantakouzene, Helena Kantakouzene, Empress of Trebizond, History of Athens, John Hunyadi, John IV of Trebizond, Junayd of Aydın, Mahmud Pasha Angelović, Mamia Gurieli, Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina, Mehmed the Conqueror, Michael Angelović, Michael Critobulus, Miloš Obilić, Names of the Greeks, Nerio II Acciaioli, Niccolò Barbaro, Night Attack at Târgovişte, Orban, Origin of the Albanians, Origin of the Romanians, Ottoman conquest of Lesbos, Patrologia Graeca, Radu cel Frumos, Siege of Bursa, Siege of Smyrna, Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430), Siege of Trebizond (1461), ..., Skanderbeg, Skanderbeg in literature and art, Stephen III of Moldavia, Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia, Theodora Kantakouzene, Theodora Kantakouzene (wife of Alexios IV of Trebizond), Theodore Bua, Treaty of Gallipoli, Vettore Cappello, Vlad the Impaler, 15th century. Expand index (11 more) »

Alexander of Trebizond

Alexander Komnenos or Skantarios Komnenos (Ἀλέξανδρος/Σκαντάριος Κομνηνός) was a co-emperor of the Empire of Trebizond, first with his father Alexios IV of Trebizond then, after several years in exile, with his brother John IV.

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Alexios III of Trebizond

Alexios III Megas Komnenos (translit, 5 October 1338 – 20 March 1390), or Alexius III, was Emperor of Trebizond from December 1349 until his death.

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Andronikos Palaiologos (son of Manuel II)

Andronikos Palaiologos or Andronicus Palaeologus (Ἀνδρόνικος Παλαιολόγος) was a Byzantine prince and the last Byzantine governor of Thessalonica with the title of despot (despotēs), from 1408 to 1423.

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Antonio II Acciaioli

Antonio II Acciaioli was the Duke of Athens from 1439 to 1445.

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Bagrationi, wife of John IV of Trebizond

Bagrationi (c. 1411/2 – before 1438) was the first Empress consort of John IV of Trebizond.

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Battle of Maritsa

The Battle of Maritsa, or Battle of Chernomen (Маричка битка, бој код Черномена, Битката при Марица, битката при Черномен, Çirmen Muharebesi, İkinci Meriç Muharebesi in tr. Second Battle of Maritsa) took place at the Maritsa River near the village of Chernomen (today Ormenio in Greece) on September 26, 1371 between the forces of Ottoman commanders Lala Shahin Pasha and Evrenos and Serbian commanders King Vukašin Mrnjavčević and his brother Despot Jovan Uglješa who also wanted to get revenge after the First Battle of Maritsa.

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Battle of Nish (1443)

At the Battle of Niš (Battle of Nish) (early November, 1443), crusaders led by John Hunyadi, captured the Ottoman stronghold of Nish (now Niš, Serbia) and defeated three armies of the Ottoman Empire.

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Byzantine literature

Byzantine literature is the Greek literature of the Middle Ages, whether written in the territory of the Byzantine Empire or outside its borders.

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Chalkokondyles

Chalkokondyles or Chalcocondyles (Χαλκοκονδύλης), also seen as Chalkokandeles (Χαλκοκαντήλης) or Charchandeles (Χαρχαντήλης), was a Byzantine Greek noble family of Athens which was elected during the Florentine possession of the city.

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Constantine XI Palaiologos

Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos, Latinized as Palaeologus (Κωνσταντῖνος ΙΑ' Δραγάσης Παλαιολόγος, Kōnstantinos XI Dragasēs Palaiologos; 8 February 1405 – 29 May 1453) was the last reigning Byzantine Emperor, ruling as a member of the Palaiologos dynasty from 1449 to his death in battle at the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

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Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae

The Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae (Latin: Corpus of Byzantine history writers), frequently referred to as the CSHB or Bonn Corpus, is a monumental fifty-volume series of primary sources for the study of Byzantine history (c. 330–1453), published in the German city of Bonn between 1828 and 1897.

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Dan I of Wallachia

Dan I was the ruler of Wallachia from 1383 to 1386.

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David of Trebizond

David Megas Komnenos (Δαβίδ Μέγας Κομνηνός, Dabid Megas Komnēnos) (1408 – 1 November 1463) was the last Emperor of Trebizond from 1459 to 1461.

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Demetrios Chalkokondyles

Demetrios Chalkokondyles (Δημήτριος Χαλκοκονδύλης), Latinized as Demetrius Chalcocondyles and found variously as Demetricocondyles, Chalcocondylas or Chalcondyles (14239 January 1511) was one of the most eminent Greek scholars in the West.

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Dobruja

Dobruja or Dobrudja (Добруджа, transliterated: Dobrudzha or Dobrudža; Dobrogea or; Dobruca) is a historical region in Eastern Europe that has been divided since the 19th century between the territories of Bulgaria and Romania.

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Doukas (historian)

Doukas or Dukas (after 1462)Kazhdan (1991), p. 656 was a Byzantine historian who flourished under Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine Emperor.

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Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (est. 2010) is a series of books published by Harvard University Press in collaboration with the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

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Eudokia of Trebizond

Eudokia Megale Komnene (died after 4 September 1395), was a Trapezuntine noblewoman, and a member of the powerful Byzantine Komnenos dynasty as a daughter of Emperor Alexios III of Trebizond.

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François Eudes de Mézeray

François Eudes de Mézeray (1610 – 10 July 1683) was a French historian.

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Giammaria Biemmi

Giammaria Biemmi was an Italian priest who published a work on Skanderbeg titled Istoria di Giorgio Castrioto Scanderbeg-Begh.

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Gjergj Arianiti

Gjergj Arianiti or George Aryaniti (1383–1462) was an Albanian lord who led several campaigns against the Ottoman Empire.

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Gjon Kastrioti

Gjon Kastrioti, or John Castriot (13?? – 4 May 1437), was an Albanian nobleman, member of the Kastrioti family, and the father of Skanderbeg.

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Greek scholars in the Renaissance

The migration waves of Byzantine scholars and émigrés in the period following the Crusader sacking of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, is considered by many scholars key to the revival of Greek and Roman studies that led to the development of the Renaissance humanism and science.

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Helena Asanina Kantakouzene

Helena Asanina Kantakouzene (died after 1394) was the sovereign Dowager Countess of Salona in Frankish Greece from 1382 until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in 1394.

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Helena Kantakouzene, Empress of Trebizond

Helena Kantakouzene (died 1463) was the second wife of David of Trebizond.

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History of Athens

Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for at least 5000 years.

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John Hunyadi

John Hunyadi (Hunyadi János, Ioan de Hunedoara; 1406 – 11 August 1456) was a leading Hungarian military and political figure in Central and Southeastern Europe during the 15th century.

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John IV of Trebizond

John IV Megas Komnenos (Ιωάννης Δ΄ Μέγας Κομνηνός, Iōannēs IV Megas Komnēnos) (1403 – 1460) was Emperor of Trebizond from 1429 until his death.

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Junayd of Aydın

Juneyd or Junayd Bey (İzmiroğlu Cüneyd) was the last ruler (bey) of the Aydınid principality in what is now central western Turkey.

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Mahmud Pasha Angelović

Mahmud Pasha Angelović (Махмуд-паша Анђеловић/Mahmud-paša Anđelović; Veli Mahmud Paşa; 1420–1474) was the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1456 to 1466 and again from 1472 to 1474, who also wrote Persian and Turkish poems under the pseudonym Adni (the "Eden-like").

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Mamia Gurieli

Mamia Gurieli (მამია გურიელი) was a member of the House of Dadiani and eristavi ("duke") of Guria in western Georgia in the latter half of the 15th century.

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Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina

Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina or Marija Angelina Nemanjić (Μαρία Αγγελίνα Δούκαινα Παλαιολογίνα, Марија Ангелина Немањић; ca. 1350 - December 28, 1394) was the self-proclaimed basilissa (Empress, queen) of Epirus from 1384 to 1385, succeeding the rule of her murdered husband Thomas Preljubović.

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Mehmed the Conqueror

Mehmed II (محمد ثانى, Meḥmed-i sānī; Modern II.; 30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (Fatih Sultan Mehmet), was an Ottoman Sultan who ruled first for a short time from August 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to May 1481.

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Michael Angelović

Michael Angelović (1451–73) was a Serbian magnate, initially serving the Serbian Despotate with the titles of veliki čelnik and veliki vojvoda, and briefly part of the Serbian three-member regency in 1458.

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Michael Critobulus

Michael Critobulus (c. 1410 – c. 1470) was a Greek politician, scholar and historian.

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Miloš Obilić

Miloš Obilić (Милош Обилић,; died June 15, 1389) was a Serbian knight in the service of Prince Lazar, during the invasion of the Ottoman Empire.

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Names of the Greeks

The Greeks (Έλληνες) have been identified by many ethnonyms.

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Nerio II Acciaioli

Nerio II Acciaioli (1416–1451) was the Duke of Athens on two separate occasions from 1435 to 1439 and again from 1441 to 1451.

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Niccolò Barbaro

Niccolò Barbaro was a Venetian physician, and author of an eyewitness account of the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.

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Night Attack at Târgovişte

The Night Attack at Târgoviște (Atacul de noapte de la Târgovişte, Tirgovişte Baskını) was a battle fought between forces of Vlad III the Impaler of Wallachia and Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire on Thursday, June 17, 1462.

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Orban

Orban, also known as Urban (died 1453), was an iron founder and engineer from Brassó, Transylvania, in the Kingdom of Hungary (today Brașov, Romania), who cast superguns for the Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453.

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Origin of the Albanians

The origin of the Albanians has long been a matter of dispute among historians.

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Origin of the Romanians

Several well-supported theories address the issue of the origin of the Romanians.

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Ottoman conquest of Lesbos

The Ottoman conquest of Lesbos took place in September 1462.

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Patrologia Graeca

The Patrologia Graeca (or Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca) is an edited collection of writings by the Christian Church Fathers and various secular writers, in the Greek language.

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Radu cel Frumos

Radu III the Fair, Radu III the Handsome or Radu III the Beautiful (Radu cel Frumos), also known by his Turkish name Radu Bey (1437/1439—1475), was the younger brother of Vlad III and voivode (war-lord or a prince) of the principality of Wallachia.

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Siege of Bursa

The Siege of Bursa (also called Prusa, Prousa, Brusa or Broussa) occurred from 1317/20 until the capture on 6 April 1326, when the Ottomans deployed a bold plan to seize Prusa (modern-day Bursa, Turkey).

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Siege of Smyrna

The Siege of Smyrna (December 1402) was fought between the Knights of Rhodes, who held the harbour and sea-castle of Smyrna (now İzmir) in western Anatolia, and the army of the Turco-Mongol emir Timur.

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Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430)

The siege of Thessalonica between 1422 and 1430 saw the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II capture the city of Thessalonica.

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Siege of Trebizond (1461)

The Siege of Trebizond was the successful siege of the city of Trebizond, capital of the Empire of Trebizond, by the Ottomans under Sultan Mehmed II, which ended on 15 August 1461.

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Skanderbeg

George Castriot (Gjergj Kastrioti, 6 May 1405 – 17 January 1468), known as Skanderbeg (Skënderbej or Skënderbeu from اسکندر بگ İskender Bey), was an Albanian nobleman and military commander, who served the Ottoman Empire in 1423–43, the Republic of Venice in 1443–47, and lastly the Kingdom of Naples until his death.

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Skanderbeg in literature and art

Skanderbeg has been the subject of many works of art and literature and the inspiration for countless others.

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Stephen III of Moldavia

Stephen III of Moldavia, known as Stephen the Great (Ștefan cel Mare;; died on 2 July 1504) was voivode (or prince) of Moldavia from 1457 to 1504.

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Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia

Stephen Tomašević or Stephen II (Stjepan/Stefan Tomašević, Стјепан/Стефан Томашевић; died on 25 May 1463) was the last sovereign from the Bosnian Kotromanić dynasty, reigning as Despot of Serbia briefly in 1459 and as King of Bosnia from 1461 until 1463.

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Theodora Kantakouzene

Theodora Komnene Kantakouzene (c. 1340 – after 1390) was the Empress consort of Alexios III of Trebizond.

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Theodora Kantakouzene (wife of Alexios IV of Trebizond)

Theodora Kantakouzene Megale Komnene (died 12 November 1426) was the Empress consort of Alexios IV of Trebizond.

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Theodore Bua

Theodore Bua was an Albanian captain of stradioti regiments of the Republic of Venice.

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Treaty of Gallipoli

The Treaty of Gallipoli, concluded in January or early February 1403, was a peace treaty between Süleyman Çelebi, ruler of the Ottoman territories in the Balkans, and the main Christian regional powers: the Byzantine Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Republic of Genoa, the Knights Hospitaller, and the Duchy of Naxos.

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Vettore Cappello

Vettore Cappello (Vettor Cappello; –1467) was a merchant, statesman and military commander of the Republic of Venice.

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Vlad the Impaler

Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Țepeș) or Vlad Dracula (1428/311476/77), was voivode (or prince) of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death.

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15th century

The 15th century was the century which spans the Julian years 1401 to 1500.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laonikos_Chalkokondyles

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