The Hagia Sophia is a great Byzantine cathedral that still exists today.
Pope Urban II agreed to help the Byzantines when they were attacked by Muslim Turks in the Holy Land. In response to a request for assistance from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, he called for the First Crusade in 1095 at the Council of Clermont. This rallying cry aimed to aid the Byzantines and reclaim Jerusalem, leading to a large-scale mobilization of Christian knights and soldiers from Europe.
No, just European factions, and the Almohads, Egyptians, Turks, Byzantines and Russians/Novogrod (and the unplayable Golden Horde)
Turks migrated to Europe beacause...
they were a tribe from the tartars
in the mirror ;D
Turks Mongols
The Ottoman Turks in 1453 AD.
The Byzantines preserved Greek culture. The other cultures in the territories of their empire were lost as they were taken over by the Arabs, Slavs and Turks.
The Turks, mongols, Arabs, Persians, more Arabs and barbarians.
Modern Turkey was controlled by a combination of Seljuk Turks and Byzantines.
conquest of asia minor by the Seljuk turks
There are two major reasons that the Byzantines hated the Turks and they are both fairly straightforward. 1) Land: The Byzantine Empire was based in Anatolia and extended into the Levant, Mesopotamia, North Africa, and the Balkans. The Turkish Empires like the Seljuqs and the Ottomans conquered this territory and similarly established Anatolia as their base of operations. When any two different ethnic groups want to control the same piece of land, it breeds conflict 2) Religion: The Byzantines considered Constantinople to be the most important seed of Orthodox Christianity and the Byzantine Empire was the defender of the Christian Faith in the Middle East. The Turks were Muslim and there was much religious hatred on both sides. The difference between the Turks and the Byzantines was that the Turks begrudgingly allowed Christians to live in their empire as long as they paid humiliating taxes whereas the Byzantines refused to let Muslims contaminate (in their view) their country and despoil the religious purity.
The Byzantine Empire was conquered by various Turkic groups, with the Ottomans dealing the death blow to the empire. However, the citizens of the Byzantine Empire, especially the Hellenized Anatolians, became Turks through their conversion to Islam (and speaking Turkish) under Ottoman rule. This process began as early as the 1300s and continued well into the 19th century. By the end of the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was roughly three-quarters Muslim and Anatolia would be purged of its Christian minorities as a result of the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian genocides during World War I.
Battle of Manzikert
The main cause was the conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
Many people participated in the Crusades including the Christians and the Muslims. The Byzantines and the Muslim Turks were the most prominent participants in the Crusades.
No, just European factions, and the Almohads, Egyptians, Turks, Byzantines and Russians/Novogrod (and the unplayable Golden Horde)