A Christian Palestinian family possibly heading to the Latin Church or New Gate (according to Life: to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre). Jerusalem, 1948.
📷: Life Magazine
The medieval Roman Empire, better known as the Byzantine Empire, is well known for its many civil wars, led during its long #history.
But few conflicts were as damaging as the Byzantine civil war of 1341–47.
The war that broke the Empire. A thread. 🧵
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