Fipps έγραψε: ↑06 Μάιος 2024, 22:19
Γαμώ τον Ταμερλάνο! Γαμώ το Ουζμπεκιστάν!
Ο Ταμερλάνος ρε βλάκα ήταν που έσωσε την Κωνσταντινούπολη από τον σουλτάνο Βαγιαζίτ Α τον κεραυνό. Αλλά τι ή πει κανείς, οι Έλληνες πάντα προπετείς και αμνήμονες ήταν. Ήδη από την εποχή του Ιουστινιανού μέσα στην ψευτομαγκιά.
Antipnevma @ Έλληνας βρίζει Γερμανούς και το πληρώνει ακριβά
Όταν ο Ταμερλάνος είχε έρθει στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και τον προσκυνούσατε σαν θεό καλά ήταν ε;
... Πριν νικήσει τον σουλτάνο
Only Timur could offer a threat to Bayazid’s hold on Constantinople as the great city was at low ebb. The nearly deposed Emperor Manuel II (of Greek origin) was in the process of trying to raise men and supplies but found little assistance from the neighboring monarchs who were absorbed in political realignments. His
own nephew was already drawing up terms of complete surrender pending Bayazid’s return from the Balkans.
.... Αφού νίκησε τον σουλτάνο
Timur had temporarily put aside thoughts of a punishment for the thorns in his side, the Sultan Ahmed and the young Sultan of Egypt, Malik Faredje. Before renewing plans for these two, an ambassador was sent to Constantinople to demand tribute from the Greek emperor. It was he who had previously asked for Timur’s help in restoring the city from Bayazid’s control, and now his entreaty had been granted. As a parting gesture in the matter of tribute, the name of Timur was to appear on the coinage of Egypt and Syria henceforward.
With the armies of Timur on the move they were likened to a spreading scourge by the historian Ahmed Ibn Arabshah as he says in his usual disparaging tone: “And a heavy cloud of dust went forth, from which a mist covered the eye of the sun, and the sea of the Tatars raged like that which God swelled into seven seas; and it
advanced entering no town without laying it to waste nor did it descend upon a city without destroying and removing it; and it crossed no place without damage and no neck submitted to its bond but was broken, nor did the top of a high fort resist it without being overthrown.”
During this time attention was diverted to the court of Amir Suliman, eldest son of Bayazid, who had retreated into the European side of the Bosporus at Gallipoli. Timur felt obliged to enter Constantinople but lingered on the Asiatic side and decided that other matters were more pressing than the pursuit of the last remnants of the House of Othman. While there he chastised the Greeks for double dealing; that is, providing boats for the evacuation of Turkish nobles while paying tribute to him for the liberation of Angora. Eventually the Genoese did ally themselves with Timur but the Venetians never did. While in Constantinople he was lavishly entertained by the emperor and sought out by several of the Greek princes for tribute.
Five or six days were spent in the imperial entourage with inspection of garden spots along the sea coast. Timur finally took leave in the midst of many expensive gifts and a special group of thirty horses with all their furnishings.
