consul at Constantinople. His mother, Élisabeth Santi-Lomaca, whose sister was grandmother of Adolphe Thiers, was of Greek Cypriot origin. When André was three...

aristocratic woman married to André, who is both a count and a general in the French army. Relations between Louise and André are companionable, but they...

André de Longjumeau (also known as Andrew of Longjumeau in English) was a French diplomat and Dominican missionary and one of the most active Occidental...

The second Arab siege of Constantinople was a combined land and sea offensive in 717–718 by the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate against the capital...

Orthodox tradition, the apostolic successor to Andrew is the Patriarch of Constantinople. The name "Andrew" (meaning manly, brave, from Greek: ἀνδρεία, translit...

Astrakhan as part of the war with Russia. Selim was born on 28 May 1524 in Constantinople during the reign of his father, Suleiman the Magnificent. His mother...

western translation of the Qur'an. Du Ryer was diplomatic envoy to Constantinople and French consul to Alexandria. In 1630, he published a grammar of...

CE, Constantinople had somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 people, edging out its predecessor, Rome, for world's largest city. Constantinople jostled...

Yazdegerd I on his accession the year before. A riot breaks out in Constantinople; the Great Palace is burned to the ground. Gainas, a Gothic leader,...

(Parroquia del Apóstol San Andrés) was founded in the capital city Madrid, under the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Constantinople. The first stone of the...

(Ancient Greek: Νέα Ῥώμη Nea Rhomē; Latin: Nova Roma) and then finally as Constantinople (Constantinopolis) after himself. In 1930, the city's name was officially...

November 1274 – 11 October 1307), was the recognized Latin Empress of Constantinople from 1283 to 1307, although she lived in exile and only held authority...

of Constantinople ordered the closure of all Latin churches in Constantinople. In 1054, the papal legate sent by Leo IX travelled to Constantinople in...

laying siege at Perpignan and attacking Flanders. André de Montalembert was sent to Constantinople to ascertain the Ottoman offensive, but it turned out...

possession of Constantinople, they found many crescent flags and adopted the crescent as a symbol of the Ottoman Empire in about 1453 AD. Bordeleau, André G. (2013)...

Hardouin-Mansart and André Le Nôtre laboured to give the ancient pile a more suitable aspect. The gardens were remade by André Le Nôtre from 1669 to...

gardener, Alexander Howatson, the botanist, Ventenat, and the horticulturist, André Dupont. The rose garden was begun soon after purchase; inspired by Dupont's...

The Council of Constantinople was a pan-Eastern Orthodox council held in Constantinople between 29 August 1872, and 16 September 1872, in response to the...

published La Trouvaille de Dréhem. He was sent to Constantinople and brought back the volumes of the Inventaire des tablettes de Tello (1912–1921). In 1912...

France, de Beauchamp, the French chargé d'affaires to Constantinople and the whole French ambassador's staff were all imprisoned at Yedi Kule. de Beauchamp...

the Macedonian emperors ruled in Constantinople. The term "Roman" art first appeared in 1818. It was used by Charles de Gerville to describe the art that...

construction of Chambord, he wanted it to look like the skyline of Constantinople. The château is surrounded by a 52.5-square-kilometre (13,000-acre)...

Baltazzi [de], which took the name of Banque de Constantinople in 1847 but was wound up in 1852. Another project, proposed as the Banque Nationale de Turquie...

André-Joseph Lafitte-Clavé, also André-Joseph de Lafitte (1740 in Clavé, a mansion of Moncrabeau – 1794 in Perpignan) was a French Army engineering officer...

count of Brienne (Gautier II de Brienne [fr]), and Humbeline Baudemont, daughter of Andrew, lord of Baudemont(André de Baudement [fr]) and Agnes of Braine...

1843. The fleur-de-lis pattern is clearly depicted in an illustration of emperor Nikephoros Phocas's welcome ceremony in Constantinople (963 AD) included...

emperor, reigning from 1449 until his death in battle at the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. Constantine's death marked the definitive end of the Eastern...

as adding a continuation, Las sergas de Esplandián, which he claims was found in a buried chest in Constantinople and transported to Spain by a Hungarian...

and the Latin Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis. Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne (Voyage de Charlemagne à Jérusalem et à Constantinople) dealing with a fictional...

Gold tournaments with Henry VIII of England. In 1542, André de Montalembert was sent to Constantinople to ascertain the Ottoman offensive within the context...