Daily Medieval

The Trebizond Empire  (the orange slice on the southern shore of the Black Sea illustration), founded in 1204 on the shores of the Black Sea...

Some Byzantine rulers invaded lands far enough from Constantinople that it made sense to establish the territories as separate empires. One ...

After King David VI Narin of Georgia took the western half of the kingdom and seceded from Georgia , he became King David I of Imereti (West...

When Emperor John II Comnenos chose his younger son Manuel over the older Isaac as his heir, some eyebrows were raised. One explanation offe...