What empire was the person who reconstructed the Ioannina Castle part of?
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Ioannina Castle The Ioannina Castle (Greek: Κάστρο Ιωαννίνων ) is the fortified old town of the city of Ioannina in northwestern Greece. The present fortification dates largely to the reconstruction under Ali Pasha in the late Ottoman period, but incorporates also pre-existing Byzantine and ancient Greek elements.
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Ali Pasha of Ioannina Ali Pasha (1740 – 24 January 1822), variously referred to as of Tepelena or of Janina/Yannina/Ioannina, or the Lion of Yannina, was an Ottoman Albanian ruler who served as pasha of a large part of western Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire's European territories, which was referred to as the Pashalik of Yanina. His court was in Ioannina, and the territory he governed incorporated most of Epirus and the western parts of Thessaly and Greek Macedonia. Ali had three sons: Muhtar Pasha, who served in the 1809 war against the Russians, Veli Pasha, who became pasha of the Morea Eyalet and Salih Pasha, governor of Vlore.
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Antonina (wife of Belisarius) Antonina (Greek: Ἀντωνίνα , c. 484 – after 565) was a Byzantine patrikia and wife of the general Belisarius. Her influence of her husband was great. Procopius features her as dominating Belisarius.. Controversial figure, the historian Paolo Cesaretti mentions her as the "right arm" of the empress Theodora in the exercise of power.
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Matthew Kantakouzenos Matthew Asen Kantakouzenos or Cantacuzenus (Greek: Ματθαίος Ασάνης Καντακουζηνός, "Matthaios Asanēs Kantakouzēnos", Bulgarian: Матей Асен Кантакузин, "Matey Asen Kantakuzin" c. 1325 – 15 June 1383) was Byzantine Emperor from 1353 to 1357.
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Silahdar Yusuf Pasha Silahdar Yusuf Pasha (Turkish: "Silahdar Yusuf Paşa" , Arabic: يوسف باشا‎ ‎ ; 1604–1646), was an Ottoman "vezir" and admiral (Kapudan Pasha, grand admiral of the Ottoman fleet), known for conquering Chania in western Crete in only 54 days in 1645 during the Cretan War (1645–69). He built a large "han", or Turkish inn, at Vrana in 1644, which still stands today.
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Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor Francis I (German: "Franz Stefan" , French: "François Étienne" ; 8 December 1708 – 18 August 1765) was Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, though his wife effectively executed the real powers of those positions. With his wife, Maria Theresa, he was the founder of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty. From 1728 until 1737 he was Duke of Lorraine. Francis traded the duchy to the ex-Polish king Stanisław Leszczyński in exchange for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany as one of the terms ending the War of the Polish Succession in November 1738. The duchy and the ducal title to Lorraine and Bar passed to King Louis XV of France upon Leszczynski's death in 1766, though Francis and his successors retained the right to style themselves as dukes of Lorraine and Bar.
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Skanderbeg George Castriot (Albanian: "Gjergj Kastrioti" , 6 May 1405 – 17 January 1468), known as Skanderbeg (Albanian: "Skënderbej or Skënderbeu" from Ottoman Turkish: اسکندر بگ‎ "İskender Bey"), was an Albanian nobleman and military commander, who served the Ottoman Empire in 1423–43, the Republic of Venice in 1443–47, and lastly the Kingdom of Naples until his death. After leaving Ottoman service, he led a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in what is today Albania and Macedonia. Skanderbeg always signed himself as "Lord of Albania" (Latin: "Dominus Albaniae" ), and claimed no other titles but that in official documents.
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Prince George of Greece and Denmark Prince George of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Πρίγκιπας Γεώργιος; 24 June 1869 – 25 November 1957) was the second son of George I of Greece and Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, and is remembered chiefly for having once saved the life of the future Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II in 1891 during their visit to Japan together. He served as high commissioner of the Cretan State during its transition towards independence from Ottoman rule and union with Greece.
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John Phrangopoulos John Phrangopoulos or Frankopoulos (Greek: Ἰωάννης Φραγγόπουλος ) was a Byzantine aristocrat and senior official in the Despotate of the Morea.
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Constantine Doukas of Thessaly Constantine Doukas (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Δούκας, "Kōnstantinos Doukas" ), Latinized as Ducas, was ruler of Thessaly from ca. 1289 to his death in 1303.
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Thomas Asen Palaiologos Thomas Asen Palaiologos (Latin: "Thomas Assanus Paleologus" ; ; Bulgarian: Tома Асен Палеолог ; 15th century–1523?) was a prominent Byzantine exile in the Kingdom of Naples in the early 16th century. A descendant of two imperial dynasties, the Palaiologoi of Byzantium and the Asens of Bulgaria, Thomas Asen Palaiologos was active in the anti-Ottoman struggles of Greece. Before 1506, he resettled in Italy and was the donor for the construction of an Eastern Orthodox church in Naples.
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Thomas Preljubović Thomas Preljubović (Serbian: Тома Прељубовић / Toma Preljubović ; Greek: Θωμάς Κομνηνός Παλαιολόγος, "Thōmas Komnēnos Palaiologos" ) was ruler of the Despotate of Epirus in Ioannina from 1366 to his death on December 23, 1384. He also held the title of Albanian-slayer (Ἀλβανιτοκτόνος).
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Pontikokastro Pontikokastro (Greek: Ποντικόκαστρο ), known in French as "Beuvoir" and Italian as "Belveder" during the late Middle Ages, is a Byzantine castle in Agios Andreas, Katakolo, in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece.
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Siege of Trebizond (1461) The Siege of Trebizond was the successful siege of the city of Trebizond, capital of the Empire of Trebizond, by the Ottomans under Sultan Mehmed II, which ended on 15 August 1461. The siege was the culmination of a lengthy campaign on the Ottoman side, which involved co-ordinated but independent manoeuvres by a large army and navy. The Trapezuntine defenders had relied on a network of alliances that would provide them with support and manpower when the Ottomans began their siege, but failed at the moment Emperor David Megas Komnenos most needed it.
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Metropolis of Ioannina The Metropolis of Ioannina (Greek: Ιερά Μητρόπολις Ιωαννίνων , "Iera Mitropolis Ioanninon") is a Greek Orthodox diocese centred on the city of Ioannina, in the Epirus of Greece. As one of the "New Lands", it belongs formally to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, but is administered by the Church of Greece. s of June 2014 , the Metropolitan of Ioannina is Maximos Papagiannis.
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Anadoluhisarı Anadoluhisarı (English: Anatolian Castle ), which is historically known as Güzelce Hisar (meaning "the Proper Castle") is a fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey on the Anatolian (Asian) side of the Bosporus, which also gives its name to the quarter around it in the Beykoz district. It was built between 1393 and 1394 by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I "The Thunderbolt" as part of his preparations for the Second Ottoman Siege of Constantinople, which took place in 1395. Sultan Bayezid built it on the ruins of a temple of Uranus Originally named Güzelcehisar (Turkish: "Beauteous Castle" )
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John II of Trebizond John II Megas Komnenos (Greek: Ιωάννης Β΄ Μέγας Κομνηνός , "Iōannēs II Megas Komnēnos") (c. 1262 – 16 August 1297) was Emperor of Trebizond from 1280 to 1297. He was the youngest son of Emperor Manuel I and his third wife, Irene Syrikaina, a Trapezuntine noblewoman. John succeeded to the throne after his full-brother George was betrayed by his archons on the mountain of Taurezion. It was during his reign that the style of the rulers of Trebizond changed; until then, they claimed the traditional title of the Byzantine emperors, "Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans", but from John II on they changed it to "Emperor and Autocrat of all the East, the Iberians, and the Transmarine Provinces", although Iberia had been lost in the reign of Andronikos I Gidos.
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Darius I Darius I (Old Persian: "Dārayava(h)uš", New Persian: داریوش "Dāryuš" ; c. 550–486 BCE) was the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Also called Darius the Great, he ruled the empire at its peak, when it included much of West Asia, the Caucasus, parts of the Balkans (Thrace-Macedonia and Paeonia), most of the Black Sea coastal regions, parts of the North Caucasus, Central Asia, as far as the Indus Valley in the far east, and portions of north and northeast Africa including Egypt (Mudrâya), eastern Libya and coastal Sudan.
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Manuel Kantakouzenos Manuel Kantakouzenos (or Cantacuzenus) (Greek: Μανουήλ Καντακουζηνός, "Manouēl Kantakouzēnos"), (c. 1326 – Mistra, Peloponnese, 10 April 1380). "Despotēs" in the Despotate of Morea or the Peloponnese from 25 October 1349 to his death and a contender to the Principality of Achaia.
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Isaac I Komnenos Isaac I Komnenos (or Comnenus) (Greek: Ισαάκιος A' Κομνηνός , "Isaakios I Komnēnos"; c. 1007 – 1060/61) was Byzantine Emperor from 1057 to 1059, the first reigning member of the Komnenos dynasty. During his brief reign he attempted to restore the depleted finances of the empire and the former strict organization of the government.
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Leo Sgouros Leo Sgouros (Greek: Λέων Σγουρός ), Latinized as Leo Sgurus, was a Greek independent lord in the northeastern Peloponnese in the early 13th century. The scion of the magnate Sgouros family, he succeeded his father as hereditary lord in the region of Nauplia. Taking advantage of the disruption caused by the Fourth Crusade, he made himself independent, one of several local rulers that appeared throughout the Byzantine Empire during the final years of the Angeloi dynasty. He expanded his domain into Corinthia and Central Greece, eventually marrying the daughter of former Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos (r. 1195–1203). His conquests, however, were short-lived, as the Crusaders forced him back into the Peloponnese. Blockaded in his stronghold on the Acrocorinth, he committed suicide in 1208.
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Anna Palaiologina (daughter of Michael IX) Anna Palaiologina (Greek: Ἅννα Παλαιολογίνα ) was a Byzantine princess and queen-consort ("basilissa") of the Despotate of Epirus.