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How tragic! Their homes taken from them by a foreign conqueror, their people overthrown and enslaved, they flee to a foreign land, establish a colony … and eve
by zeveb 9y ago
How tragic! Their homes taken from them by a foreign conqueror, their people overthrown and enslaved, they flee to a foreign land, establish a colony … and eventually they're wiped out by the Turks. Sad to think of the cousins of the Beowulf poet, of Ælfric and of Cynewulf expiring on the Anatolian coast.
- sweettea 9y agoI believe the 13th century conquest would have been the Mongolian Empire. While Constantinople fell in 1204, Crimea devolved to the Empire of Nicaea [1] or Trebizond [2]. In 1223, the Mongols conquered most of Crimea [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire#Crusader_sack_of_Constantinople_.281204.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire#Crusader_sack... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_I_of_Trebizond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_I_of_Trebizond [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea#Medieval_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea#Medieval_history
- marssaxman 9y agoI imagine that the people they displaced during the process of establishing that colony would have just as dramatic a story, about having their homes taken from them by a foreign conqueror... I wonder what happened to them afterward?