Those intervening years were far from stable, however. Plague decimated Vienna's population in the mid-1300s, and various military sieges against the city were to come: the Turks in the 16th and 17th centuries, and Napoleon twice in the early 19th century. ...
Strangely when you look up this restaurant on the internet, images of Napoleon pop up in the search. Yes. the wordOINOPOLEIONdoes sound like Napoleon but in Greek it actually meanswine shop. The name makes more sense once you realize that the family who owns OINOPOLEION also owns a viney...
Moscow suffered further during Napoleon's invasion of 1812. By the time the French conqueror arrived, most of the population had fled, leaving only some partisans who set fire to the city while the French occupied it. The fire burned for three days, destroying the medieval wooden town and le...