Soner Cagaptay on Twitter: "All areas ruled by the Romans, Byzantines, and Ottomans: Balkans (south the Danube), Anatolia, Levant, and North Africa (minus Morocco) were under the same rule across the three
If the Byzantine Empire had lost everything except Constantinople to the Ottomans, why was it such a shock when it fell in 1453? - Quora
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