George Akropolites, Latinized as Acropolites or Acropolita (, Georgios Akropolitês, 1217 or 1220 – 1282 ), was a Byzantine Greek historian and statesman born at Constantinople.

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He had been betrothed to Eudoxia on a former occasion ; the circumstances surrounding the failed negotiations are unclear, but George Akropolites states that the arrangement was blocked on religious grounds by the Orthodox Patriarch Manuel Sarentos: Robert's sister Marie de Courtenay was married to Emperor Theodore I Laskaris.

George Akropolites, the contemporary 13th century Greek historian, notes that Henry " though a Frank by birth, behaved graciously to the Romans who were natives of the city of Constantine, and ranked many of them among his magnates, others among his soldiers, while the common populace he treated as his own people.

It has been called also Battle of Kastoria because the three Byzantine sources ( Pachymeres, George Akropolites, Gregoras ) informs us that the Epirotic camp was firstly attacked there in a location called Boril's Wood ( Βορίλλα λόγγος ).

Greek sources, aside from George Pachymeres, include George Akropolites, Nikephoros Gregoras, and George Sphrantzes.

Ruins of the Nicean-era fortifications attest to the city's importance in the Late Byzantine period, a fact also noted by the Byzantine historian George Akropolites, writing in the 13th century.

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During the winter of 1256-57, George Akropolites tried to reinstall Byzantine authority in the area of Arbanon.

In his sixteenth year he was sent by his father, the logothete Constantine Akropolites the elder, to the court of John III Doukas Vatatzes, emperor of Nicaea, where Akropolites continued his studies under Theodore Hexapterygos and Nicephorus Blemmydes.

Meanwhile, Michael Palaiologos was proclaimed emperor of Nicaea, afterwards expelling the Latins from Constantinople, and became emperor of the restored Byzantine Empire ; and from this moment Akropolites becomes known in the history of the eastern empire as one of its greatest diplomats.

Akropolites was chosen as the emperor's ambassador, and in 1273 he was sent to Pope Gregory X.

In 1282, Akropolites was once more sent to Bulgaria, and shortly after his return he died, in the month of December of the same year.

Akropolites ' historical work, the Annals, embraces the period from the capture of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade by the Latins in 1204 to its recovery by Michael Palaiologos in 1261, thus forming a continuation of the work of Nicetas Choniates.

Akropolites is considered a trustworthy authority as far as the statement of facts is concerned, and he is easy to understand, although he exhibits special carelessness in the construction of his sentences.

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Once in the U. S. he taught primarily at Yale University where he had such notable students as Lukas Foss, Graham George, Norman Dello Joio, Mel Powell, Harold Shapero, Hans Otte, Ruth Schonthal, and Oscar-winning film director George Roy Hill.

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Other celebrity guests in the hotel's early decades included the future King Edward VII, Sarah Bernhardt, Enrico Caruso, Lillie Langtry, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Nellie Melba, Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Errol Flynn, Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Barrymore, Harry Truman, Audrey Hepburn, Judy Garland, Josephine Baker, Cary Grant, Babe Ruth, Ivor Novello and Noël Coward.

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