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Theodosius-Hafen

2007-03-01T17:45:06Z

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'''Eleutherion''' ({{lang-el|ελευθεριον}}, [[freedom]]) is an ancient Byzantine port near [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]] (formerly known as [[Constantinople]], the capital of the eastern Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires).

In [[November 2005]], workers digging on a tunnel project discovered an ancient harbor of [[Byzantium]], now known as the Theodosian harbor. This discovery is in the [[Yenikapi]] neighborhood of Istanbul. The Theodosian harbor is believed to be an expansion of an earlier port known as the Eleutherion port.

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Theodosius-Hafen

2006-11-09T20:41:03Z

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'''Eleutherion''' is an ancient Byzantine port near [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]] (formerly known as [[Constantinople]], the capital of the eastern Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires).

In November 2005, workers digging on a tunnel project discovered an ancient harbor of [[Byzantium]], now known as the Theodosian harbor. This discovery is in the [[Yenikapi]] neighborhood of Istanbul. The Theodosian harbor is believed to be an expansion of an earlier port known as the Eleutherion port.

''Eleutherion'' is the Greek word for [[freedom]].

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[[Category:Ottoman Empire]]

Leofric von Mercia

2005-08-05T22:35:40Z

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'''Leofric''' (b. abt [[May 14]], [[968]] - died [[August 31]], [[1057]]) was the Earl of [[Mercia]], who, in [[1043]], founded [[monastery]]s at [[Coventry]] and [[Much Wenlock]]. Leofric is best remembered as the husband of [[Godiva]], who is said to have ridden through the streets of Coventry naked, in order to persuade her husband to reduce the burden of [[tax]]es placed on their subjects by order of King [[Harthacanute]]. In the novel by [[Charles Kingsley]], they were the parents of [[Hereward the Wake]], but this is merely a literary device.

He married in [[1030]].
He is said to have died in [[Bromley]], [[Staffordshire]], England.

His son, [[Alfgar, Earl Of Mercia]], succeeded him.

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Siward, Earl of Northumbria

2005-08-05T22:28:30Z

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'''Sigurd the Dane''', also known as '''Siward''', was an [[English]] nobleman in the [[1100s|Eleventh Century]], and the [[Earl]] of [[Northumbria]].

Siward was a descendant of the [[Denmark|Danish]] royal family, whose ancestors had arrived in England a few generations earlier as part of the [[Norse]] colonization of Britain. He was the hereditary ruler of Northumbria.

He served as a general to [[Harthacanute]] and [[Edward the Confessor]], and gained great reknown for his skills as a soldier. He was related to the [[Scottish]] royal family, and was either the uncle or the brother-in-law of [[Malcolm III of Scotland|Malcolm Canmore]] (one text erroneously calls him his grandfather). Following [[Macbeth of Scotland|Macbeth]]'s defeat of Malcolm's father [[Duncan I of Scotland|King Duncan I]] in [[1040]], the infant Malcolm was sent to Northumbria to be guarded by Siward. In [[1053]], Edward the Confessor agreed to assist the now adult Malcolm in taking the throne of Scotland, and designated Siward as leader of the English army. Siward's first incursion met with limited success, capturing the fortress [[Dunsinane]] in [[1054]], but Macbeth was not decisively defeated until [[1057]] at [[Battle of Lumphanan|Lumphanan]]. One of Siward's own sons, Osberne, was killed during the campaign in Scotland.

Malcolm's son [[David I of Scotland|King David I]] would later marry Siward's granddaughter [[Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon|Matilda]]. Siward's descendants also included [[James I of England]], although this was not known during James' time.

Siward and Osberne (Young Siward) are both characters in [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Macbeth]]''.