>>18431038
arent some of them too far apart?

>>18431092
The ones in central Anatolia could be seen from afar due to the Central Anatolian Plateau

>>18431038
Gondor calls for aid.

>>18431038
great, even faster way to start a civil war!

I'm convinced the byzantine empire was the second coming of Jesus millenia empire, where all the legends of honor and chivalry and benevolent high kings (with Jesus being the Supreme divine emperor) and fair maidens and tradition and high culture and beautiful art comes from. A golden era.

>>18431038

sad how in our timeline the orcs of mordor destroyed Gondor

>>18431736
>>18431742
holy fucking r*ddit

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>>18431742
Yes.

>Be Byzantines
>Fail at diplomacy with Western Europe
>Get pushed to Anatolia by Arabs
>Hire Turkish mercenaries to kill each other in 100 civil wars
>Remainder of empire gets swallowed up by Turks
>Still get worshipped by redditors centuries later

>>18431038
Yes, we all saw le friendlyjordies special

>>18431038
What if it was a false alarm?

>>18431038
What if it was a false alarm?

>>18431908
>Be Holy Roman Empire
>Entire existence is larp propagated by pope
>Royalty became inbred as fuck and made the entirety of European nobility inbred in turn
>Innumerable wars within, including the fucking Reformation and Thirty Years War
>Nobody can come to an agreement, not even the Pope, but everybody wants to say it’s Christendom and Roman somehow
>Was never Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire, and finally got cucked by Napoleon
>Still worshipped by 4chan contrarians centuries later

>>18431916
who seethes over friendlyjordies

>>18431908
>>18433148
These two actually tended to be allies more often than not.

>>18431038
Just in time to do nothing about it.