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Post by pieter on Sept 22, 2006 1:42:14 GMT -7
;D Hello and welcome to the forum Constatine. We all hope you will have more input. If I am not mistaken, some of the Cruisaders decided to rob or extort some of Constatanople's wealth before moving on to Jeruslem. ;D ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, yes you are right, it was during the Forth Crusade. The evidance of this we can see for example in Venice at St. Marco cathedral as a quadriga of horses stolen by Crusaders from Constantinopole's race track. And it was not only robbery, but real slaughter (Christians were murdered by Christians). After that Romaion Empire never rehabilitated oneself. And soon after European were forced to fight with Turks at Vienna. At the times of Manuel (150 years after) Romaion Empire was only a small piece of land. But the most tragedy was a created hostility between Orthodox and Catholic belivers. Constantine, You are absolutely right, I got this subject in my one year history study in Amsterdam in 1990/91. That is part of the sad truth about the Crussades, and made the devidance of the the schisma between Eastern-orhtodox and Catholics even bigger, due to the distrust of the Orthodox christians of the Catholics (whixh lasts until today). Nice to have a 33 year old Russian from Moscow participating in this boards, I am looking forward to more interesting replies or topics from your side. Pieter
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