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Wasnt Mons Grapius a great victory aswell as that battle Julian had..i think at Strasbourg or something where he defeated the Alemanni?

i think most of it ended up in Constantinople after Belisarius conquered the Vandal kingdom.. atleast some of it is mentioned in his triumph. anyway id prolly like to get the Byzantine crown jewels that the latin empress pawned to venice

And after that Venice ceded the island to them. These things have to happen formally regardless of the actual conquest, otherwise the war could not be ended, and the Ottomans would be mere occupiers. The fact that they ceded it combined with the large payments suggests the Venetians were in no state to continue opposing the Ottomans. They won the battle at Lepanto, but lost the war. i was just making it clear that the island wasnt just given up

...who took sanctuary there. mhm..and the women where tied up around their necks with their own scarfs.

nice emote!! atleast he punished the horse but thats a good point in all seriousness..forgot to mention all the people killed in the church.. eg old and frail and the young.

Cyprus wasnt ceded to the Ottomans..They conquered it outright.

I much prefer using the term 'Byzantine' to me.. it just has a nice sound to it... and is kind off exotic.. plus its much easier to distinguish the change from a roman state to a more greek state. The Golden horn was the inlet of water that was protected by a chain which was connected to the suburb of Galata by which time was in control of the Genoese and was ruled by a 'Podesta'. The Hungarian was called Urban (Orban) he offered his services to the Emperor but at to high a price. The Emperor had no choice but to decline hes wares. There were a vast number of Christians who made up the army. mostly the irregulars.. i think they were called Bashi-bookers or something along those lines. One of the leading generals of the Ottoman army was a Greek christian renegade Zaganos Pasha who converted to Islam and implored the Sultan to continue the siege at a time when morale was at an all time low in the camp of the besiegers. How do u mean he despoiled it? he had a soldier executed when he was trying to remove the tiles from the floor of the grand Cathedral. edit:Spelling.

the Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire. But the crusaders in 1204 and their sack of the city had a major impact upon the empire. It split it up into 3 minor Byzantine kingdoms eg Empire of Nicea, Despotate of Epirus and the Empire of Trebizond. There were also many latin duchies and 'empires' set up like the Duchy of Athens, Empire of Thessaloniki and so on. This allowed the Ottomans to 'divide and conquer'..and ultimately secured their rise to power. After the fall of Constantinople Greece was largely under the rule of the Ottoman Sultans. But as Gaius already said the brothers John and Thomas Paleologos ruled jointly in the Morea (southern greece..lacadaemon/sparta/argos). And the Venetians still had a large power base in the Aegean and Greece (Negroponte/Euboea) there were still minor duchies and kingdoms but as usual they didnt unite against a common cause and continued to squabble amongst themselves. most of the Byzantine Nobles that escaped the aftermath of the siege in 1453 headed west.. and started of the Renaissance.. there was even a Byzantine community in Venice.. the city that instigated the sack of the city in 1204! Led by the daughter of the last Megas Dux. Anna Notara.

i voted for nero...mainly due to his musical prowess ... i just cannot get over the stories surrounding his concerts..eg people jumping off the theatre walls, women giving birth and people pretending to die so they could be taken out of the theatre. Edit: Spelling >.<

thanks unrv!

Alexius only asked the pope for a small band of knights from the west that could be placed under his personal command. The Pope saw this oppourtunity and decided to preach a crusade. so in my opinion Alexius wasnt the ultimate cause of the fall of the empire. If Anything Alexius was one of the better Emperors. Anyway the empire and the west were bound to get into a conflict sooner or later.

oh..anything happen to her after the death of julian? or did she jsut get packed of to a nunnery?

slightly off topic .. but was Julian ever married? or betrothed?

Probably Belisarius, Narses and Heraclius for the byzantine period Aetius for the roman period and Agricola

i dont think the silk would be in very good condition..doesnt it deteriorate fast?

i was doing an assignment on the Emperor Honorius and even though he was a terrible emperor i found him quite hilarious so i choose the name. plus it sounds kinda funky

ah yes wiki does say that.. i mustve missed it

i wonder what kind of hanging method they are going to use.. like the one with the trap door where the victims neck is snapped or like they use in Iran (a crane slowly lifts the noose and the victim slowly suffocates)

i wonder what it woudlve looked like.. like if it had a ditch at the front like Hadrians? what do you think kosmo?

The Anastasian Wall (Turkish: Anastasius Suru) or the Long Walls of Thrace (Uzun Duvar) is an ancient, stone and turf fortification located 65 km west of Istanbul, Turkey built by the Byzantines during the late 5th century.... (wikipedia) what do you guys think of the Anastasian wall? was it even effective or utterly pointless? was it worth the money it costed to maintain and garrison it? was it made for a mainly phsychological impact on the barbarians and the populace?

Megas Dux, a court official or perhaps a Eunuch in the Byzantine period.. minus the castration part being a soldier in the late empire would suck imho

the Mtw2 demo is ok... but its really realistic so the battles go heaps fast.. its like one hit kill which is good but i think you have to get used to the fast pace of the game now arqubusiers are hot! aswell as Landerschkets (sp?)

is this just me or has unrv been hacked? it looks all 'invsionfreey' and at the top the banenr says 'hacked by meoconxvhs'

the other day i was arguing yet again with a few friends that the Byzantines where the defenders of europe after they had defeated the arabs in a number of sieges and battles. As usual this argument got shot down and someone mentioned a Jewish kingdom called Khazaria and that they had been more vital in the defense of Europe against the Arab Caliphate then the Byzantines had been. what do you guys think of this? were the Khazars more important then Armenia or the states of Georgia? if it wasnt for the Byzantine empire christianity wouldve had a hard time surviving? i eagerly await your replies

i thought Heraclius' newly conquered lands were quickly lost.. aswell as all of the levant etc. imho i dont think he left the empire that well off...sure the sassanids were defeated but that just left a power vacuum allowing the arab armies to fill it and as tobias already said he left the empire weak and exhausted.