Richard Baker wrote: > The second major collapse occurred with the defeat > of Romanus Diogenes by the Seljuk Turkish > sultan Alp Arslan at Manzikert in 1054. (The Seljuk sultanate was a > successor to the Arab Caliphates that had inflicted the earlier > defeats on the Byzantines.) >
Minor nit. The battle of Manzikert was in 1071. Regards, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 "I have not failed. I have discovered 1,000 things that do not work." -- Thomas Edison _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
