The Platamon Castle, Macedonia, is a Byzantine castle that was extensively improved by the Latin Roland Piscia, who received the site from Boniface of Montferrat after 1204.
The imposing castle is located near the mouth of the Peneios River,…
Mystras was a major late medieval fortified city in the Peloponnese, Greece founded in the 13th century. It became the seat of the Latin Principality of Achaea following the fall of Constantinople to the crusaders in 1204. In 1259, the city's Latin…
Built between 1220/1230 by the Geoffrey I de Villehardouin, Chlemoutsi was the strongest fortress in the Frankish principality of Achaea, in the Peloponnese. Named Clermont by its founder and Chlemoutsi by the locals, the castle was known by the…
Built on the foundations of the Temple of Sun God (Helios), whose cult was much distinct to the island of Rhodes in the antiquity, the palace was the residence of the governor and the island's administrative center. It was constructed in the 14th…
Gold dinar struck in the name of Saladin, mint of Al-Iskandariya, AH 581 = AD 1185. Obverse: al-Imam/Ahmad in two lines across field; citing the Abbasid caliph "Abu l-Ábbas al-Nasir li-din Allah, commander of the faithful" in inner margin; mint and…