Brownworth describes the disastrous Byzantine short-term thinking that gave the Ottomans their European foothold: a Byzantine claimant for the throne offered the Sultan the town of Gallipoli in exchange for military support in a dynastic dispute. Turkish manpower streaming into Europe then enabled the conquest of Adrianople and the surrounding of Constantinople.
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Episode 16 (10 mentions)
Brownworth describes the disastrous Byzantine short-term thinking that gave the Ottomans their European foothold: a Byzantine claimant for the throne offered the Sultan the town of Gallipoli in exchange for military support in a dynastic dispute. Turkish manpower streaming into Europe then enabled the conquest of Adrianople and the surrounding of Constantinople.
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