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Aug 2024
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Episode 308 - The Fall of Anatolia

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The arrival of the Mongols in Anatolia would eventually lead to the expulsion of the Romans. Mongol dominance of the plateau sent waves of tribes into Byzantine territory. It was a crisis which the Emperor Andronikos was not equal to.


Period: 1281-1303


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