>if the Sack of 1204 and the establishment of the Latin Empire

>>1679801
I'm sure something similar was said a century earlier, and probably a century later.

>>1679801
Mongols never got to anatolia and turks couldn't care less about iraq. By the time fourth crusade happened, the roman empire wasn't any more empire than let's say hungary

>>1679801
Bullshit fictional history. The ottoman beyelik was brought to its knees in 1400 much like byzantium in 1200, but instead of rolling around in self-commiseration for two and a half centuries they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and went to experience unprecedent expansion in that same (15th) century.

>>1680437
Well I believe OP is thinking about Timur the radical.

>>1680437
Actually the Medieval Kingdom Hungary was more of an Empire than fucking Byzantium.

Spent the 1200s to the mid 1400s being one of the strongest states in Europe. A big one too.

>>1679801
Byzantium is pretty cool senpai

>>1680517

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>>1680437
>Mongols never got to Anatolia
The Mongols meddling in Anatolia was a reason why the Empire of Nicaea could focus all its efforts on recovering Greece.

>>1680526
Not even Hungarian m8.

Trianon was pretty much theirs having it coming what with spending life under Austria-Hungary trying to belittle other minorities.

>>1680517
>Actually the Medieval Kingdom Hungary was more of an Empire than fucking Byzantium.
Maybe after 1204, before that the Hungarians got their asses kicked by the Byzantines at Sirium

>>1679801
Is he typing on a fucking chessboard?

>>1680437
>Mongols never got to anatolia

You're an idiot. The Sultanate of Rum collapsed as a result of Mongol incursions into Anatolia.