⚔️ The Komnenian reconquista
(1096-1143) mapped 🗺️ 🇹🇷 following the disaster at Mantzikert the Turks managed to enter Anatolia and by 1080 had pushed the Romans to some western costal regions

But by 1096 the situation would change drastically...

While the battle for Constantinople was taking place on the surface of the earth, a second war was unfolding underground between the Greeks and Serbs 🇬🇷⚔️🇷🇸

[Thread] 🧵 The excavation of the mining tunnels was entrusted to Zagan Pasha, an exceptionally capable Ottoman general who was one of the most trusted commanders of Mehmet II

Zagan Pasha organized a corps of Serbian sappers who specialized in digging underground tunnels

📜 The letters exchanged between Mehmed II and Constantine XI are further proof that in the face of the threat of annihilation, the Romans preferred death to subjugation

[Thread] 🧵 On late May, sensing that the siege was coming to an end Mehmet writers to Constantine:

(1) “Know that the preparations for war have been completed. The time has now come to put into action what we have long desired. We leave its outcome to God. What do you say? [...]”

⛵ The last Roman victory at sea may have - indirectly - caused the fall of Constantinople...

[Thread] 🧵 April 20th

🛶 3 Genoese and a Roman shop under Greek admiral Fladanelas arrived at Constantinople ,with ammunition for the defenders, from the island of Chios

⚔️ The battle that will follow would impact the siege of the City

Did you know that the last Divine Liturgy in Hagia Sofia didn't take place in 1453 but in 1919!!!

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https://twitter.com/universalnewsx/status/2044045563033739450

In January 1919 shortly after the end of the Great War as a Greek division was sailing towards Ukraine and Crimea , to help the Whites in the Russian civil war, it stopped briefly in Constantinople.

Among the soldiers is Father Eleftherios ,military chaplain from Crete

Times when #Rome was almost reformed post 1453

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#fyp #eastern_rome #constantinople #byzantium #medieval 1479:

Krokodeilos Kladas, a Byzantine nobleman launched a major revolt in Mani in 1480–1481, briefly defeating Ottoman forces.
Later, he served Naples and campaigned in Albania before being captured near Monemvasia in 1490 and wss flamed alive