... and the disappointment after the peace treaty from Berlin, we did that mistake two or three times. The Balkan wars, the first and the second world wars were lead just for a goal: Tzar Simeon's Bulgaria, Bulgaria on three seas, powerful enough to destroy any country as big as the Byzantine Empire. And all these wars ended in disaster. Economic crisis after crisis and finally the communism. The disaster of the disasters. Maybe the ... only worst thing is the Turkish slavery. These mistakes were made because of the old understanding ... ...

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... . These names give witness to the composite nature of Byzantium; it was the continuation of the Roman state. The Byzantine Empire preserved the basic structures of late Roman Mediterranean civic culture, which led to the growth and continuing success. Constantine had chosen the site for a new capital with care. He placed Constantinople on the frontier of Europe and Asia, dominating the waterway connecting the Mediterranean and Black seas. Nature protected the site on three sides with ... Empire lacked. Byzantines harbor was the center of an active commerce. Constantinople was one of the ...

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... of the wars fought in the last 75 years have been over seas, most recently being the war with Iraq. Yes we have a violent history, but our past violence is nothing compared with Germany's, which killed multimillions in both World War I and World War II. Also if you go back to the time of the Romans, in the last 200 years of the Roman Empire, many battles were fought on the outskirts of the Roman ... Empire with tribes of people who ... congregated in the area now known as Germany. Russia also has just as a comparable violent history ... ...

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