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@jackdonith Those were republican legions. Basically a citizens' militia, and they still won every major battle vs. he phalanx since Beneventum. In the last clashes between legions and phalanx, the professional post-Marian-reform legions won with ridicolous ease.
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The commanders were, on average, the best. They had pratically been trained by Hannibal. It had been during the second Punic war that the Romans quit to use the legionary system only as a mean to fight frontal battles in uneven terrain, and started to use the maniples tactically. In the late Republic few big names emerged, but the average commander was not as brilliant as in this era. But the legions, even if reinforced by many veterans of previous wars, were still citizens' militia. The post-Marian-reform professional ones would have chewed them.
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@rotciv1492 The main weakness of the Macedonian phalanx was that it pretty much relied on a dominating cavalry to throw the decisive blow to the enemy. That was known since Alexander. Looking at the battles of Cynoscephalae and Pydna infact, even when the Phalanx was pushing the Romans, the Roman losses were negligible. The phalanx was good at pushing, but not at killing. But to have a dominating cavalry was not a given. It was not like the enemy didn't know the horse. The Legionary system didn't rely on a dominating cavalry to win battles. The only thing the Romans asked to their cavalry was to be good enough to prevent the enemy one to outflank them, so to have time to sort out how to take advantage of the enemy's weaknesses (terrain, lack of coordination, fatigue...), at that point the killing blow was of the infantry.
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In 1480 the Ottomans didn't even want to land near Otranto, since the city didn't have a real port, and so couldn't dock a fleet during winter. They wanted to take Brindisi, but the wind drifted their galleys south. The small garrison of the city resisting for two weeks exasperated the Ottomans, that knew they were loosing precious time and giving the neighbour cities time to prepare the defenses (so the final massacre of the inhabitants). What foreseen punctually happened. Raids were made on the territories of Lecce, Taranto and Brindisi but, despite the Ottomans threatening to treat the inhabitants of of those cities like those of Otranto if they had not surrendered, no other city fell. In october the Ottoman fleet had to leave Otranto for the abovementioned reason. The garrison left at Otranto was about a third of their total invasion force, so not even that small.
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No mistake. In English they are synonyms.
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@islamisthetruth3402 IE https://issuu.com/kurumuny/docs/estratto_l_autenticastoria../1
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@Odiseio Italy was known as that since Roman times, and the fleet at Lepanto was almost exclusively Italian. Only 23 galleys out of 206 galleys +6 galeasses came form a placed called "Spain" all the others came from Italy.
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That happened nearly a century later.
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@hafizsmith960 The pope didn't leave the city in 1480. He didn't leave It evev when the city had been really sacked by the landskenekts in 1527.
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@UC55WpqcLo6jZsE6DJ9Nw4Vw Sorry, it's a fairy tale. It never happened.
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@hafizsmith960 It's not a question of believing. There is reality, and there are fairy tales. The Pope leaving Rome fo Avignon in 1480 is a fairy tale not reported in any chronicle.
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In 1480 the Ottomans didn't even want to land near Otranto, since the city didn't have a real port, and so couldn't dock a fleet during winter. They wanted to take Brindisi, but the wind drifted their galleys south. The small garrison of the city resisting for two weeks exasperated the Ottomans, that knew they were loosing precious time and giving the neighbour cities time to prepare the defenses (so the final massacre of the inhabitants). What foreseen punctually happened. Raids were made on the territories of Lecce, Taranto and Brindisi but, despite the Ottomans threatening to treat the inhabitants of of those cities like those of Otranto if they had not surrendered, no other city fell. In october the Ottoman fleet had to leave Otranto for the abovementioned reason. The garrison left at Otranto was about a third of their total invasion force, so not even that small.
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Just the small city of Otranto for 13 months. Lecce and Bari had never been conquered.
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@umutucar4783 It's a just a fairy tale, sorry.
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@Balon Hamid It was what their 128 ships could carry in a single time. The ferry between Albania and Italy was not easy for the Ottomans (infact the first time it had ben done by night) because in 1480 they were still at the beginning of building a powerful navy. That of Venice was still much better, and they needed to avoid direct confrontation.
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@scintillam_dei Italy is known like that since Roman times.
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@islamisthetruth3402 In 1535 a Spanish-Genoese fleet crushed Barbarossa's fleet at Tunis (82 warships lost) and conquered the city. Without a starting base, The Ottomans were limited to pirate raids into central Mediterranean until the reconquest of Tunis in 1574.
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@stuka80 post second punic war legions faced the phalanx on more or less equal ground. Post Marian reform ones crushed it with ridicolous ease.
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They never did.
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@ottomanmapper3502 They kept the small city of Otranto for less than a year. That's all.
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Yes, there was. All the church that later would became "Catholic" and "Orthodox" was "Catholic". A byzantine patriarch would have called himself "Catholic" at the time.
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Vukasin H. They are Catholics because they call temself that way. Personal opinions about theology are irrelevant.
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Vukasin H. Infact your personal opinion on who's the king of England, like your personal opinion on who's Catholic, means nothing in reality. Is the opinion of those who consider themself English or Catholics that does.
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Actually is bullshit.
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