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Re: Byzantine Brokering by Byzantium
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:18:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> Oh, and "Byzantine" is just a cool word. Byzantine. Byzantine
> Byzantine. Byzantine.
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> best
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> LFB
So take me back to Constantinople
No you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
I seem to recall my mother singing that silly song in some play many years ago.
Byzantine. Very cool. Varangian Guard. Cooler!
Bruce
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| (...) Neat. I wonder what play it was to use They Might Be Giants songs... Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul not Constantinople So if you've a date in Constantinople She'll be waiting in Istanbul. (I'll confess just about my favorite (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Not so much the Turks but the Ottomans under Mehmet II (the Conqueror). Theirs was the real administrative revolution that made the final conquest of Byzantium by the Turks possible. IMHO, anyways, given that the Anatolian hinterland had been (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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