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lait out an Athos storm, you ore dramatic haven than gh on a spur above the Ae- s dovecote of cells onto tiers hies propped by aged beams. ne 800 feet over the sea ina hf faith. Clutching the splin- ing over a gap in the floor h down mesmerized at walls ing walls of rock. onopetra no longer shook. pst its howl; the sea was flat- _ No more dodging waves. I | Not so that boy who looked he leaped across the rocks, a m away before his father’s | boats ran again, they found ought it in from the sea. -al Geographic, December 1983 HE VEAR 1071 wasabad one for the Byzantines, East and West. At Man- zikert, in the highlands of eastern Turkey, the multinational Byzantine Army, riven by dissensions and desertions and for once sloppy in reconnaissance, was annihilated by the invading Seljuk Turks it had marched east to destroy. Anatolia, breadbasket and prime recruiting ground for Byzantium, subsequently was stripped forever from Christendom, opening the way to later Ottoman invasions of Europe. In Bari, port city in southeastern Italy, I saw blood on the pavement. Assassins had gunned down a political opponent, and grieving partisans marched around the stain in bitter memorial. Nine centuries earlier blood had flowed in the streets of Byzantine The Byzantine Empire CPYRGHT cole Rag V eR BW Bevin 2 4 A . — aes vers ~ Oa » 7 , Te , 4 if ¢ a . 7 eaaetY SENT ey LE eee Bari, sacked by the Normans after a three- year siege. Five years after the Battle of Hastings in England, the Normans had con- quered southern Italy. The year 1204 was even worse. On April 13, Fourth Crusaders en route to Jerusalem committed what historian Sir Steven Runci- man called “the greatest crime in history”— the Christian sack of Constantinople. Burning, pillaging, raping, the crusaders looted what they didn’t destroy to enrich Venice, Paris, Turin, and other Western centers with “every choicest thing found upon the earth.” (They even brought back two heads of John the Baptist, so rich was Constantinople in relics.) When, after 57 years, a Byzantine emper- or once again reigned in Constantinople, the 751 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001200040005-0