(ENCYCLOPEDIA CALLIMACHA)
The Battle of Myriokephalon
I.
With the threat from the Hungarians abated, and order restored in the Balkans, Emperor Manuel turned his old eyes eastward again: and for a time, God too seemed to approve. How it all ended up in the place known to the Greeks as ‘a million heads,’ God only knows.
Cilicia was retaken from the Armenians…
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