On The Brink: Russia’s Byzantine Diplomacy On Iran

By: Ausonius (Diary)  |  October 6th at 10:56 AM  | 

The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman empire, existed in a slowly shrinking form between the 400′s A.D. down to the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453.  For roughly 1,000 years this basically medieval Greek empire attempted to survive the attacks of Slavs,  Arabs, Crusaders, and Turks, and did so by developing a diplomatic technique known today as “Byzantine.” A  Byzantine diplomacy means that | Read More »