Exploring Hatay’s Rich Heritage
Rock Tombs A Testament to Ancient Burial Practices
Located in close proximity to the Titus Tunnel, the Rock Tombs sprawl across a vast area, serving...
Exploring Hatay’s Historical Sites
St. Simeon Monastery A Testament to Solitude
Constructed in the 6th century A.D., the St. Simeon Monastery stands atop a hill near Aknehir, along the...
Exploring Hatay’s Treasures
Daphne Harbiye A Tranquil Retreat
Situated in the Defne district of Hatay, Daphne Harbiye is renowned for its picturesque waterfalls, nestled just 10 km away...
The good barbarian king Flaccitheus
The good barbarian king Flaccitheus, leader of the Rugi people across the Danube, maintained warm relations with the holy man until his daughter-in-law tried...
Saxons and leads a small group
Around 469, we glimpse Odoacer again, this time just south of the Danube in modern Austria, the province then called Noricum. He has abandoned...
Without alarms and overreactions
The landscape was not without alarms and overreactions, betraying the tension in the air. In a poem of praise for the emperor Majorian, whose...
Godfrey of Bouillon
At that time, too, came Count Godfrey, who had crossed the sea with the other counts and was accompanied by an army of 10,000...
Any acquaintance with military practice
At the sight of the Latin legions, not only did all of the basest class, the foolish and the unwarlike, groan, cry out, and...
Little Christian blood as possible should be shed
He gave that order with this in mind, that when their horses were wounded, the violence of the Gallic attack would languish and the...
