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The Alexiad

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The Alexiad is a book written around the year 1148 by the Byzantine historian Anna Comnena, the daughter of Emperor Alexius I.

She describe the political and military history Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father (1081-1118), making it one of the most important sources of information on the Byzantines of the Middle Ages.

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