Posted on 05/29/2019 7:11:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A very dark time indeed. Thank God for the Islamic civil war that kept the world wreckers at bay while Western Europe rebuilt itself.
Vikings were extinct by the time of Turkish Constantinople’s takeover.
The story is probably based on a Russian-Byzantine war. It has ended in 907 ad with Russian victory in Constantinople then capital of East Roman Empire but the war was actually about a trade dispute so the Russians didn’t occupy the city. There was a little pillage in suburbs after Roman army was crushed by the Russians but Byzantines agreed to remove tariffs on Russian trade and agreed to pay reparations. Then Kievan Prince Oleg symbolically nailed his shield to the city gates to show who is boss and the Russians went home.
Turks weren’t anywhere near at the time.
thanx Ragnar
Viking expansion was in between late 8th and mid-10th centuries. Turks came close to Europe in 15th century.
Depends on your flavor of Turk & where you draw the Europe boundary
For example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oghuz_Turks
The Byzantines were using Turk mercenaries for quite a while before they became a problem.
Yep, that was one of the Byzantines blunders. I means Turks weren’t in control of the Eastern Med before that time.
You are a Sheldon of the humanities :-)
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