Episode 227 - Just Take the Damn City
The History of Byzantium
Robin Pierson
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
John II Komnenos is finally free to campaign in Anatolia. If he can keep the Turks quiet then he can make it to Antioch where his real goal lies. But once there will he risk outraging Latin opinion by assaulting the city or will he negotiate a deal to bring the city back into the Empire?
Period: 1127-1138
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| 0:00.0 | I'm from a small town in Lancashire and growing up, I just always wanted to move away. |
| 0:04.6 | But then my geography teacher took us rambling. |
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| 0:10.8 | Why it's so special? |
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| 0:15.6 | I'd teach taught geography, but really, he was teaching me who I was. |
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| 1:02.6 | Have you ever wanted to know more about African history? |
| 1:05.6 | Maybe you wish you knew more about the Kingdom of Oxen, |
| 1:08.4 | Byzantium's powerful Christian ally in the Indian Ocean region, |
| 1:12.0 | or maybe you wanted to know more about the Ashanti Empire, |
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