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The Reconquest of Constantinople


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2024 Dec 18, 4:49pm   34 views  2 comments

by Patrick   ➕follow (60)   💰tip   ignore  

A nice project that Russia and the rest of Europe could cooperate on as a Western team-building exercise.

After all, it's historically Greek, as is the coast of Turkey. What gave the Turks the right to take it?

And much of the Turkish population is genetically Greek (and Armenian, further east).

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2021/06/10/turks-enraged-as-ancestry-com-reveals-the-truth-most-of-them-are-greeks-n1453554

Their ancestors were pressured to speak Turkish and convert to Islam. Maybe a lot of them would be happy to recover their true heritage.


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1   HeadSet   2024 Dec 18, 6:11pm  

Patrick says


What gave the Turks the right to take it?

An effective army and a large special built cannon to blow down the city walls. The bigger question is why after WW One, was Turkey allowed to keep it?
2   Patrick   2024 Dec 18, 7:26pm  

Even more so, the corruption and heavy taxes of the Byzantine Empire made the Turks sound not so bad by comparison.

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