[Perseverando]

Time for another great American history lesson from American Minute.

[Mmogamer]

Roman...not byzantine.

[granada]

Lib/progs have told us: The founding fathers were a bunch of slave-owners who massacred native Americans.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

[Wuli]

So now we are going to help Erdogan????

When you don’t know history, you are bound to repeat it.

Turkey should have never been made part of NATO.

[Fiji Hill]

Konstantinoupolis (Constantinople)--Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra (vocal by Tetos Demetriadis) (1928)

[Fiji Hill]

The Byzantine Empire had many notable emperors, such as:

Theodosius the Great, 379-395; Zeno, 474-491; Justinian & Theodora, 527-565, built the Hagia Sophia Cathedral; Heraclius, 610-614 Basil I, 867-886; Basil II, 976-1025; Alexios I Komnenos, 1081-1118, requested help from the West -- the First Crusade; Constantine XI, 1449-1453, last emperor.

Don't forget Constantine IV And Leo III. Constantine IV led the successful defense of Constantinople when it was besieged by the Arabs in 683 as did Leo III during the Arab siege of 717. Leo III also triumphed over the Arabs at the Battle of Akroinon in 740, one of a series of battles including Marj Ardabil (730), Tours (732) and Kashgar (736) that brought the Moslem conquests to a halt.