Hello everyone, my name is Sebastian Major and I'm the host of Our Fake History.

As any fan of the history of Byzantium can tell you, the historical record is not always

what it seems.

It's all too easy for myths, misconceptions, and all-out fabrications to take root in the

popular imagination and become what's roundly accepted as real history.

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Every two weeks were either debunking wild historical rumors like the old chestnut that

Queen Elizabeth was really a man, exposing pseudo histories like the occult fantasies written

about the so-called Spear of Destiny, or diving into timeless legends like Theesius in

the Minotaur and the Trojan War to determine whether or not there's a kernel of truth hiding

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Now I'll turn you over to your capable host, the smoothest voice in history podcasting,

Mr. Robin Pearson.

Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium, episode 112, The Frontier.

Last time we discussed the dissolution of the Islamic caliphate, the giant empire which

had so often threatened to end Byzantium's existence, was now in retreat.

This is undoubtedly good news for the Romans, but as I mentioned last time it was not apparent

even by 912 AD that this was what the future held.

All the Byzantines knew was that caliphal armies hadn't been seen in a very long time.

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