Chương 291: Trauma, Nostalgia, or Apathy?

Constantinople had been reclaimed by Christendom, and as Bruno promised, every non-Christian citizen within the city was granted safe passage east of the Bosphorus into Muslim lands. But even some of those regions were not safe to settle as the Hellenic Army, by its own might began marching into Ionia, Cyprus, and the Dodecanese islands.

Stopping just west of Lydia, lands once colonized by the Greeks during classical antiquity were once more in their hands for the first time since the fall of the Byzantine Empire. A civilization which technically claimed their origin from the Eastern Roman Empire. In practicality was more of a Greek state by its end.

Though that debate could be left to the historians. More importantly, as Bruno had said, the reclamation of Constantinople had been the nail in the coffin of the Ottoman Empire.