Study Notes on Karluks! Karluk means snowman. The Karluks acquired this name because they lived in the snow covered mountains of Altai and Tyanshan. By 766 they had taken possession of the Suyab. In the latter half of the 8th century the Karluks were dominating the Saptanada. The Karluks called their king Yuvgu and it is to the Karluk ruler [...]
This article provides short notes about the place of Mycale. On the same day as the battle of Plataea the Greeks won another victory on the Ionian coast at Mycale, east of Samos. The Greek fleet had been stationed at Delos on guard throughout the summer under the command of Leotichidas. Xanthippus and the Athenians joined the fleet at Delos [...]
This article provides short notes on Artemisium. The defeat at Thermopylae entailed the retirement of the Greek fleet. To engage the Persian fleet at Artemisium was absolutely essential for the maintenance of Thermopylae and to the general plan of defence. First encounter with the Persian fleet took place between three Greek vessels reconnoitring in the Thermaic gulf and ten large, [...]