The last Byzantine stronghold outside the walls of the capital, given to Constantine XI as a young man to govern. He successfully restored it to full Byzantine control and even pushed into northern Greece before the Sultan sent troops to teach him a lesson, destroying the Hexamilion and barely letting him escape with his life.
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Episode 16 (2 mentions)
The last Byzantine stronghold outside the walls of the capital, given to Constantine XI as a young man to govern. He successfully restored it to full Byzantine control and even pushed into northern Greece before the Sultan sent troops to teach him a lesson, destroying the Hexamilion and barely letting him escape with his life.
“As a young man, he had been given control of the Peloponnese, the last Byzantine stronghold”
“If he could hold the line till winter, the Turks would be unable to enter the Peloponnese,”
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