Breaking Treaties Leads to Chaos
Breaking treaties for selfish reasons, as Mr. Lloyd George once said, is like walking straight toward barbarism. This is the exact opposite of the...
Bulgaria’s Sacrifices and Contributions
The Treaty of Bucharest unfairly divided territory, and Bulgaria was the country that sacrificed the most but received the least. Despite this, Bulgaria has...
Meeting the Priest and the Bulgarian Revolutionary
My dragoman and I were riding ahead through a forest when we came around a bend and suddenly saw a priest on a pony...
Antique Hunt in Koritza
When I arrived in Koritza, my dragoman told me that I could find interesting antiques in the town. I asked the men who were...
The Wedding Celebration
There was a lot of excitement and music at the wedding, as if the couple had been in love for many years. The groom,...
Formal main boulevard entered the Augustaion
The best approach to the palace was from the west, on foot. The great middle street of the city drew together those who arrived...
The church reopened at the Christmas season
When the dome collapsed, Paul tells us, clouds of dust darkened the day, the earth shook, but Christ protected his church and no one...
One Blue and one Green
And so in 532, when he ordered the execution of two criminals prominent in the factions—one Blue and one Green—he poked the hornet’s nest...
Treves and other centers
Constantine himself led an austere life and there was a minimum of luxury in the palace, so the major part of the accumulation in...
The rest of the Empire
Reading the reports of his spies in the rest of the Empire, Constantine sometimes felt like an observer perched high above some giant circus,...
