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Study reveals Roman Empire’s expansion following volcanic eruption and plague

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and disease...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/01/rom

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✧ first Arab siege of Constantinople in 674–678 ✧

The first Arab siege of Constantinople in 674–678 was a major conflict of the Arab–Byzantine wars, and the first culmination of the Umayyad Caliphate's expansionist strategy towards the Byzantine Empire. In 672–673 Arab fleets secured bases along the coa...

#UmayyadCaliphate #ByzantineEmpire #AsiaMinor #Constantinople #Byzantines #Wikipedia
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“In the early modern period, an educated, urban-dwelling Turkish speaker who was not a member of the military-administrative class typically referred to themselves neither as an Osmanlı nor as a Türk, but rather as a Rūmī, or "#Roman", meaning an inhabitant of the territory of the former #ByzantineEmpire in the Balkans and Anatolia. The term Rūmī was also used to refer to Turkish speakers by the other Muslim peoples of the empire and beyond.”

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_

en.wikipedia.orgOttoman Empire - Wikipedia

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✧ Thekla ✧

Thekla (820s or 830s – after 870) was a princess of the Amorian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire. The eldest of seven children of the emperor Theophilos and empress Theodora, she was proclaimed augusta (an imperial title) in the late 830s. After her father's death in 842, her mother became regent for her younger brother Michael III, and Th...

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After an initial burst of productivity and research, my Byzantine TTRPG setting has been allowed to rest for a bit so I'd have time to consider the direction.

But it's about time to get back to it.

Yesterday I ordered one of the old GURPS historical settings - Imperial Rome - which will help me turn the project from 'Carsten writes 100 pages about the Byzantine Empire' to 'Carsten provides you with a setting to use for campaigns'.

So that's gonna be fun :)

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✧ Theodore II Laskaris ✧

Theodore II Laskaris (1221/1222–1258) was a Byzantine emperor who ruled the Empire of Nicaea from 1254 until his death. Nicaea was a successor state to the Byzantine Empire, after crusaders captured the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade. Theodore began to write treatises on theologica...

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore