Yardistan Takes Mirioth

[Scott Alexander]

No, that's a city in Wales "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. " - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

[dStryker]

you yourself said Batman was a city in Turkey. Unless you're referring to what UEC just said... “After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” - Cato the Elder“No Sane man will dance.” - Cicero“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” - Carl Gustav JungRain is a government conspiracy.

[Ryan]

The capital of Ottoman Turkey was Constantinople, which was captured from the Latin Empire in 1454. It was later renamed Istanbul. After WWI and the Ottoman Empire fell, the capital was moved to Ankara.Ok, i'll shut up now.... Ryan D. CarusoPresident-General of the Nautilus Free StateICQ # 73438757The Last HellspawnI am the Void, I am WarVoid!Citizen of the Baronry of Treesia and FabonCitizen of the Hegemony of AlexandrosMember of the PaladinsProud Member of the Labour PartyLeader of the Free Cimmeria Party!

[Kaiser Metzler I]

I am not here...kill me..... Polemarch of the Hegemony of AlexandrosE. Metzler "UEC", eik'mol bom'eth"Death awaits everyone, it's just that it has less patience for some...""Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

[dStryker]

Two things:1. The Turks captured Constantinople in 1453.2. It was the Byzantine Empire, not the Latin Empire. The Latin Empire was formed after the Crusaders seized Constantinople from the Byzantines, which was then later recaptured by the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII. “After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” - Cato the Elder“No Sane man will dance.” - Cicero“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” - Carl Gustav JungRain is a government conspiracy.

[Kaiser Metzler I]

yes.... Polemarch of the Hegemony of AlexandrosE. Metzler "UEC", eik'mol bom'eth"Death awaits everyone, it's just that it has less patience for some...""Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

[dStryker]

I'm not too good at medieval European history, but saying it was the Latin empire is just... ridiculous.... “After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” - Cato the Elder“No Sane man will dance.” - Cicero“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” - Carl Gustav JungRain is a government conspiracy.

[Stjepan Aracic]

Yeah...those mistakes were pretty inexcusable...For god's sake, the Latin Empire was contemporary with Stefan Dusan's empire, which was about a century or more before the Ottoman Turks seized Constantinople from the BYZANTINE empire... Who are you?Man condemned to shine a salvationthroughout the centuries...Why?Was the wine of the grailtoo sour for man to drink?The Carpenter, Carved his anchoron the dying souls of mankind.On the tomb of this unknown soldier,Lay the tools of the onewho for us has died...Tools of the carpenter...-Nightwish - The CarpenterWelcome to Dying...

[Kaiser Metzler I]

I must have been asleep when they covered this in history class.... Polemarch of the Hegemony of AlexandrosE. Metzler "UEC", eik'mol bom'eth"Death awaits everyone, it's just that it has less patience for some...""Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

[dStryker]

or they skipped over it... “After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” - Cato the Elder“No Sane man will dance.” - Cicero“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” - Carl Gustav JungRain is a government conspiracy.

[Bill3000]

I love history and reading about history. Bill DuschBil'Per Car'SetPresident of BGIMember of the PaladinsBaron of the Palatinate of ElpidosJustice of the Court of Alexandros"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right." - Dan Quayle, in a speech to the Christian Coalition"The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective." - George W. Bush

[Kaiser Metzler I]

proly skiped it... damn eurocentrist writers... they can't even cover Africa, Asia or the america's without bringing europians heavily into it... Polemarch of the Hegemony of AlexandrosE. Metzler "UEC", eik'mol bom'eth"Death awaits everyone, it's just that it has less patience for some...""Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

[dStryker]

Well the Byzantines were European... sort of. But they were far more enlightened compared to the rest of Europe at the time. “After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” - Cato the Elder“No Sane man will dance.” - Cicero“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” - Carl Gustav JungRain is a government conspiracy.

[Stjepan Aracic]

The Byzantines were Romans who were Greeks. Does that make sense?Anyway, they were European.Stefan Dusan's Serbian Empire (Srbsko Carstvo) isn't something people who haven't look closely at Balkans history would know, but when talking about the Byzantine Empire, it's pretty important.It's easiest that books take a Eurocentric view in school though. It's the easiest way to cover the most dynamic flows of history. Who are you?Man condemned to shine a salvationthroughout the centuries...Why?Was the wine of the grailtoo sour for man to drink?The Carpenter, Carved his anchoron the dying souls of mankind.On the tomb of this unknown soldier,Lay the tools of the onewho for us has died...Tools of the carpenter...-Nightwish - The CarpenterWelcome to Dying...