After its glory days in the Eastern Roman Empire, it stood right in the path of Muslim expansion, suffered betrayal by crusading Catholics, was seized by the Russian Tsars to ally with tyranny and faced near-extinction under Soviet Communism.
Nakon slavnih dana Istočnog rimskog carstva, odjednom se našlo točno na putu muslimanske ekspanzije. Doživljavalo je izdaje od strane katoličkih križara. Primoravano je od strane ruskih careva na savez sa tiranijom... i bilo je gotovo uništeno pod sovjetskim komunizmom.