Byzantium

One of Bohemia’s greatest artistic treasures was donated to the Cistercian monastery of Vyšší Brod around 1285 by Záviš of Falkenstein. Who was this nobleman who rebelled against a king and made kings, seduced princesses, and was ultimately beheaded by a king?

It is equally remarkable that at least this one Byzantine church has survived more or less in its original form out of the twenty that once stood in Nicaea, and out of the many thousands across the country

Only a few years ago, archaeologists from Bursa University discovered, from aerial photographs of Lake İznik and its surroundings near Nicaea, that ruins were emerging beneath the water — the remains of a large basilica