This is the era where Turks were on the rise abutting the Roman Empire, which had already split into Roman and Byzantine parts because of papal corruption, because the papacy and the imperial government were parasitically attached to each other, one of the reasons why a Roman emperor moved the capital from Rome to Constantinople, and the papacy refused to recognize the move as legitimate (9th century, The Great Schism). Eventually the Turks would best the Byzantines but also had sights on Rome, too.

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♲ Bob the Traveler - 2024-12-13 22:06:00 GMT

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