Comments by "" (@sebe2255) on "Who Controlled Constantinople The Longest?" video.

  1.  @dlasky He didn’t really. They actual reason they sacked the city is because they acted as mercenaries to one Emperor who got overthrow and the new guy didn’t want to pay them. So they just took the city lmao
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  2. Istanbul alone has a bigger population than all of Greece lmao They aint gettin nothing back
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  3. The Turks didn’t seize all of Anatolia and certainly not Istanbul in 1071, go back to your palace Erdogan
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  4. Sure but it by the point they renamed the city Istanbul had also been in use for centuries
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  5. Can’t really blame the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire on one selfish guy. They had plenty
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  6.  @jackyex There is a also quite a big difference between the pagan greek city states and later Greek claimed Roman Empire
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  7. Even the “Eastern Roman” emperors had to know they were larping as Rome when all they had left were some dispersed territories in Greece and the Balkans
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  8.  @lucasgillis You are correct that France as a state is a continuation of the Frankish Empire (specifically of the West Frankish Kingdom). But the French people are not a continuation of the Frankish people. That would be the Dutch, some West Germans and, because of colonalism, the Afrikaners.
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  9.  @lucasgillis  There are though? And besides that wouldn’t even be the point, the point is that most of France, including Northern France, is Gallo-Roman (mostly Gallo). Franks didn’t settle in large enough numbers to displace the language or culture of the region. Which is why the Franks that did settle in Gaul assimilated into the Gallo-Roman population. Whereas the Franks in the Low Countries and West Germany didn’t. These regions form the modern continuation of the Frankish people, not France.
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  10.  @lucasgillis  well we don’t live in the year 900 anymore so that is a bit irrelevant. And these regions were never the core of the French (West Francian) domain, culturally or linguistically. Which they were for the Dutch, specifically the Dutchy of Brabant, Brugge and Hasselt-Maastricht I see now I read it wrong. You mean Lille? I mean sure and this region was natively more Frankish that is true. But that is also just a tiny part of France that was again not part of the core domain that coalesced into the French culture and people we know today. The native Frankish (Dutch/French Flemish) dialects died out for a reason.
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  11.  @q-tuber7034 Takeover by the Flemish actually
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  12. Istanbul alone has more people than all of Greece, it aint happening
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