Hardwicke's woolly bat [SEP] parent taxon
Hardwicke's woolly bat
Hardwicke's woolly bat ("Kerivoula hardwickii") is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
It is found in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam.
The bat typically inhabits the forest understory of these regions and roosts in hollow trees or dead clusters of leaves. As typical with understory bats, this species is slow flying and highly maneuverable.
Known as (meaning "reddish
Siege of Dyrrhachium (1107–1108)
The Siege of Dyrrhachium took place from November 1107 until September 1108, as the Italo-Normans under Bohemond I of Antioch besieged the Adriatic port city of Dyrrhachium, held for the
Byzantine Empire by its "doux" Alexios Komnenos, a nephew of the reigning Byzantine emperor, Alexios I Komnenos (). The siege is described at length in the "Alexiad" of Anna Komnene, daughter of Emperor Alexios. Emperor Alexios, who had been heavily defeated while trying to relieve a previous