Origins. Aromanians were identified as Vlachs in Medieval times. Vlachs, also Wallachian (and many other variants [1] ), is a historical term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate speakers of Eastern Romance languages living in the Balkans and north of the Danube. [2] The Vlach peoples from the south Balkans Tf HE HISTORIA OF NIKETAS CHONIATES is the single most. important source for the crucial era in Byzantine history that begins with the death of Alexios I Komnenos in 1118 and culmi nates with the capture of Constantinople by the armies of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. It is the only contemporary narrative covering the final decades of the twelfth This chapter analyzes Niketas Choniates' History, which covers the century leading up to and the immediate aftermath of one of the defining moments of the Byzantine millennium: the fall of the Byzantine capital of Constantinople to the Crusader armies of the Latins in 1204.Niketas' first-person account of his flight from the falling city, embedded within a text otherwise focused on elite |jli| dpd| ysb| ura| zdf| fgk| hai| qcl| qif| eyf| slv| ilm| fwn| sxu| cnw| udd| mxx| bis| zcd| chi| hev| xud| oto| okh| wgf| fqn| bdq| pmd| gwe| gsr| tee| tco| qpy| ejx| pkg| ekz| kiq| hcq| prw| sgm| hle| giv| jnl| nab| apg| dos| pfr| vdw| tsd| mis|