To: JCBreckenridge
Why did Constantinople get the works?
5 posted on
08/13/2012 11:34:58 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Why? Because it was the centre of trade for the entire eastern mediterreanean.
Combined with Trabizond (the end of the road), they were still responsible for significant trade even towards the end.
7 posted on
08/13/2012 11:44:18 AM PDT by
JCBreckenridge
(Texas, Texas, Whisky)
To: dfwgator
Why? Because it was the centre of trade for the entire eastern mediterreanean.
Combined with Trabizond (the end of the road), they were still responsible for significant trade even towards the end.
9 posted on
08/13/2012 11:47:26 AM PDT by
JCBreckenridge
(Texas, Texas, Whisky)
To: dfwgator
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks!
11 posted on
08/13/2012 12:00:42 PM PDT by
Redleg Duke
("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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