Catalan Company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/01/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Company


00:00:45 1 Arrival at Constantinople
00:02:38 2 Campaigns in Anatolia
00:02:48 2.1 Battle of the Cizicus (1303)
00:04:59 2.2 Battle of Germe
00:06:08 2.3 Battle of Aulax and liberation of Philadelphia
00:08:32 2.4 Occupation of Magnesia
00:09:51 2.5 Battle of Tire
00:12:20 2.6 Arrival of Bernat of Rocafort
00:14:04 2.7 Battle of Ania
00:14:56 2.8 Battle of Kibistra
00:17:29 3 Byzantine betrayal (1305)
00:18:08 3.1 Siege of Magnesia
00:19:10 3.2 Murder of Roger de Flor and massacre of Adrianópolis
00:20:35 3.3 Siege of Gallipoli
00:22:10 3.4 Battle of Apros
00:23:32 3.5 Dominion over Thracia
00:23:53 3.6 Battle of Mount Haemus
00:25:08 4 Internal confrontations and the end of the Company
00:25:20 4.1 Internal division
00:26:37 4.2 Move into Greece
00:27:16 4.3 Battle of Halmyros
00:28:11 4.4 Duchies of Athens and Neopatras



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The Catalan Company or the Great Catalan Company (Catalan: Gran Companyia Catalana, Latin: Exercitus francorum, Societatis exercitus catalanorum, Societatis cathalanorum, Magna Societas Catalanorum) was a company of mercenaries led by Roger de Flor in the early 14th century and hired by the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos to combat the increasing power of the Turks. It was formed by almogavar veterans of the War of the Sicilian Vespers, who had remained unemployed after the signing in 1302 of the Peace of Caltabellotta between the Crown of Aragon and the French dynasty of the Angevins.