Succeeded bySent to Majorca to act as Italian proconsul in the Balearics, Bonaccorsi proclaimed that Italy would occupy the island in perpetuity and initiated a brutal reign of terror, arranging the murder of 3,000 people accused of being communists, and emptying Majorca's prisons by having all prisoners shot.
What wiped out the Byzantine Empire?
The Byzantine Empire fell once and for all in the year 1453 CE, when the Ottoman Empire broke through the walls of Constantinople with cannons and seized control of the capital city. The last Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI, died in that battle.
What nationality are the Balearic Islands?
SpainBalearic Islands, archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea and a comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Spain coextensive with the Spanish provincia (province) of the same name.
What was Spain called when it was under Roman rule?
Hispania, in Roman times, region comprising the Iberian Peninsula, now occupied by Portugal and Spain.
Who captured the Balearic Islands?
Who wiped out the Romans?
leader OdoacerIn 476 C.E. Romulus, the last of the Roman emperors in the west, was overthrown by the Germanic leader Odoacer, who became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome. The order that the Roman Empire had brought to western Europe for 1000 years was no more.
What was Spain called under the Romans?
HispaniaHispania, in Roman times, region comprising the Iberian Peninsula, now occupied by Portugal and Spain.
Why didn’t Greece get Constantinople?
Greece itself wanted control of Constantinople. Russia vetoed the Greek proposal, because its main war goal was to control the Straits, and take control of Constantinople.
Who suddenly defeated the Byzantine Empire?
the Ottoman EmpireIn the longer term, the rise of Turkish power in Anatolia eventually gave rise to the Ottoman Empire which rapidly conquered the former Byzantine heartland over the course of the 14th and 15th centuries, culminating in the Fall of Constantinople to the army of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror in 1453.