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Today in the fam, fam: Constantinople not Istanbul
1 July 1097 Battle of Dorylaeum, First Crusade.
Although the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos had asked the Pope for Christian military aid in fending off aggression from invading Muslims attacking his frontiers, the Seljuks of Anatolia among others, there was deep
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