Other common nouns in Greek are second declension feminines, without being compounds, like ἡ ὁδός, hē hodós, "the way, road, street" -- so that "the Middle [Street]" in Constantinople, ἡ Μέση [ὁδός], hē Mésē [hodós], was the street that ran the ...
If the crusaders’ mandate was to reclaim the Holy Land and regain control of important Christian sites like Jerusalem, what was the importance of this territory for the Islamic world? PC: Jerusalem, one of Islam’s holiest cities after Mecca and Medina, was one of its most pious pilgrimage...
marched to Constantinople, the heart of the Byzantine Empire (also Christian). From there, along with soldiers from Constantinople, they marched to take Jerusalem from the Muslim Seljuq Turks. By that time, they had marched through—and sacked—multiple towns and cities. Besides ...