From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #6272 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, March 30 2021 Volume 14 : Number 6272 Today's Subjects: ----------------- White Wife Finds Elongation Secret From African Tribesmen ["African Tribe] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 08:21:16 -0700 From: "African Tribesmen" Subject: White Wife Finds Elongation Secret From African Tribesmen White Wife Finds Elongation Secret From African Tribesmen http://dronecamera.us/kGoFNfthr1m-sUAu1k3CBVwPvf6TJatMnAgxu5QETV6XJYgo http://dronecamera.us/pctlH8Q1jMqEFfVx__S-YlRnxqOqwtW_Q1MYOONgNNYT_SqH he Great Catalan Company departed from Messina with 36 ships (including 18 galleys) transporting about 8,000 men (1,500 cavalry, 4,000 almogavar foot soldiers and an indeterminate number of servants and auxiliary personnel). The exact figures are a matter of dispute, for although the numbers provided by Ramon Muntaner are trusted by later historians Francisco de Moncada and George Paquimeres, the contemporary Byzantine historian Nicephorus Gregoras gives a total number of only 1,000 men. After a brief stop at Monemvasia, the company arrived at Constantinople in January 1303, where it was received by the Emperor and housed in the district of Blachernae. The Emperor arranged the wedding of Roger de Flor to his niece, the 15 year old princess Maria Asanina, daughter of the Tsar of Bulgaria Ivan Asen III and Irene Palaiologina. De Flor was named Megas Doux (Great Dux, i.e. Commander of the Imperial forces). The arrival of this new mercenary contingent upset the balance of power that supported the Byzantine Empire. It especially irritated the Genoese, who saw the arrival of the Catalan Company as an intrusion by the House of Aragon into the area of influence of the Republic of Genoa i.e. the Eastern Mediterranean and the Byzantine Empire. Armed conflict was not long in breaking out, with 3,000 Genoese killed (including their leader Rosso del Finar) in what was called the Genoese massacre in Septemb ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #6272 **********************************************