http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/06/01/1453-halil-pasha-fall-of-constantinople/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:00:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/06/01/1453-halil-pasha-fall-of-constantinople/#comment-6395 ExecutedToday.com » 1396: Thousands of knights of the Last Crusade Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:39:29 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=3714#comment-6395 [...] But it had been under that tattered old banner that Christendom summoned its vassals to check the rising Ottoman Empire, which by this time had reduced Byzantium to a rump state around [...] [...] But it had been under that tattered old banner that Christendom summoned its vassals to check the rising Ottoman Empire, which by this time had reduced Byzantium to a rump state around [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/06/01/1453-halil-pasha-fall-of-constantinople/#comment-6261 ExecutedToday.com » 1389: Saint Tsar Lazar, after the Battle of Kosovo Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:36:38 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=3714#comment-6261 [...] For a generation, Lazar had firmed up his authority as the most significant Serbian autocrat outside the Ottoman orbit. The gravity of that orbit, however, grew more powerful with each passing year; soon, it would devour Byzantium. [...] [...] For a generation, Lazar had firmed up his authority as the most significant Serbian autocrat outside the Ottoman orbit. The gravity of that orbit, however, grew more powerful with each passing year; soon, it would devour Byzantium. [...]

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