Amidon, recalled another old post - from 2006 - which advocated the view that Byzantium, its culture and institutions were not destroyed, but absorbed into the then-multicultural Ottoman Empire, which defined Islam as the primary state religion almost a century and a half later.
Amidon, recordó otro post antiguo -de 2006- que defendía la idea que Bizancio, su cultura e instituciones no estaban destruidas, sino absorbidas en el entonces multicultural Imperio Otomano, que definía al Islam como la religión principal del estado casi un siglo y medio después.