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    Bureaucratically Efficient Senior Member TinCow's Avatar
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    Default Re: What if Constantinople had never fallen to the Turks?

    Quote Originally Posted by A Very Super Market View Post
    You don't get it, in 1543, the Byzantine Empire was reduced to only Constantinople. The Ottomans already took the lands East and West of them, Bulgaria and Anatolia.
    That's not quite right. Most of Morea (Peloponnese) was still under Byzantine control in 1453. Some of Constantine XI's advisers urged him to flee to that province to escape the fall of the city and continue the fight, but he refused.
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    Default Re: What if Constantinople had never fallen to the Turks?

    Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
    Some of Constantine XI's advisers urged him to flee to that province to escape the fall of the city and continue the fight, but he refused.

    someone is trying to copy Justinian...
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