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A Gateway on the Silk Road Kars, the Historic Crossroads Kars, a city with roots tracing back to the Bulgarian Turks of the “Valatur” tribe, holds...

Architectural Marvel of 1153 Constructed in 1153 by the Vizier of Saltuk Sultan Malik Izzeddin Salduk Firuz Akay, Kars Castle stands proudly on a steep...

It came about like this. One day he found Michael alone, and cloaking his thoughts in periphrasis, began to address him in the following...

The Empress’s Adoption of Michael**48 and his Promotion to Caesar22.’A very easy measure,’ answered John, ‘and all ready. If our brother **49 were not...

24. What had taken place was, in reality, the beginning of mighty disasters in the future, and what was, to all appearances, the foundation...

26. Let me now give some account of this man.**50 His family, on his father’s side, was altogether insignificant and completely obscure. His father...

He was expert in the conception and planning of unlikely designs. He showed no consideration for benefactors, no gratitude to anyone for friendship or...

31. It was now evident that the whole of the emperor’s body was swollen, and nobody could fail to notice the hydropsy from which...

11. Not one of the emperors in my time — and I say this with experience of many in my life, for most of...

If he did no harm to a soul, yet in his dealings with the people he assumed a fierce expression which terrified one and...