Friday, October 1, 2010

Fourth Crusade - Twilight of Byzantium (Part Five - The consequences of the fall of Constantinople)

After the conquest of Constantinople, the crusaders, the countries of the Byzantines, the Venetians and create short-Latin Empire, which disappear after a few decades. Although the return to Constantinople in 1261 the Roman Empire was never the same. In the fall to the Turks, Constantinople is the shadow of his shadow. And keep the emperor and autocrat of the Romans, but only in name. Constantinople, in fact,no longer play a role of political leadership in the Balkans, but the Byzantine civilization again, like a dying star that shines in the Palaeologus Renaissance in the 14th century, then as a dwarf dark times - the fall of the Empire area of a city. As in agony, attacking Constantinople is a desperate and heroic resistance last turkish in 1453, then plunge into the eternal silence, the turkish Istanbul arise.

So seriouslyAfter the fall of Constantinople had on relations between the two Christian churches - Catholic and Orthodox. Although more than a century, the formal separation of the Christian Church dominated ("schism" of 1054) that random violence against Catholics, the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, then widened the gap between the two churches, that has not passed yet . This is certainly helped and the implementation of Pope Innocent III, who after the conquestConstantinople, confirmed the election of a new "American" or the Catholic Patriarch and therefore more of complicity in the attack on Constantinople, something that had been compared. The Pope in Print in the south-east "schismatic" did not work. Pope John Paul II, 800 years later, during his visit to Athens in May 2001 asked the name of the Catholic church for forgiveness - for Latinos engaged in the first eight centuriesConstantinople.

Besides the damage was the conquest of Constantinople and other effects of international relations and regional weather. Instead of an empire in its place a number of countries, whether in Latin or greek, the "rich" created "despotism", the "haves" and "principles" and ... and, finally, reduce the Balkans and Asia, many countries, war is the greek and latin for the succession of Byzantium.

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