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==Barnstars==

{{award2|image=Barnstar-stone2-noback.png|size=100px|topic=The Epic Barnstar|text=for your work on Byzantine history. [[User:Tom harrison|Tom Harrison]] <sup>[[User talk:Tom harrison|Talk]]</sup> 02:42, 27 May 2006 (UTC) }}


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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Epic Barnstar'''
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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" |  For your incredible work on Byzantine Empire related topics. ''Byzantine Empire'' was the first Wikipedia article I ever read --[[User:Bizwhiz|Bizwhiz]] 00:48, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your chivalrous behaviour and appreciative comments. [[User:Tourskin|Tourskin]] 19:46, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
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==My contributions==

I wrote several articles between 2006 and 2008 My work includes:

Three new pages on medieval battles:

*The [[Battle of Levounion]], 
*The [[Battle of Sirmium]], and
*The [[Battle of Beroia]]

Several new pages on Byzantine history; 

*[[Byzantium under the Komnenoi]]
*The [[Komnenian army]]
*The [[Komnenian restoration]]
*[[Byzantine civilisation in the twelfth century]]
*[[Decline of the Byzantine Empire]]

I have also worked on [[Byzantine army]], adding some new sections and images, and I have worked on [[History of Athens]].
[[Image:Exterior of Sultan Ahmed I Mosque, (old name P1020390.jpg).jpg|thumb|300px|Istanbul, June 2006]]
After a trip to [[Istanbul]] in June, I did a lot of work on [[Constantinople]]. I worked also to improve [[John II Komnenos]], and apart from these there are various smaller contributions to pages like [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]].

However, my biggest contributions were to the [[Byzantine Empire]], [[Manuel I Komnenos]] and [[Byzantium under the Komnenoi]].