fall of constantinople

I posted something similar a while ago, but I'd like to discuss it in broader terms the ramifications of a Norman conquest of the Byzantine Empire. It's underappreciated just how close Duke Robert Guiscard and the Normans of Sicily came to overunning the troubled and declining empire in the...

By Ottoman clone I mean no other Turkic Beylik following the same pattern of rise to power of warlord establishing a Beylik in Roman borderland and expanding by taking in displaced Turks and acting as mercenaries for the Eastern Romans during their civil wars and war with other Christians...