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Updated: May 1, 2025
They challenged the Romaic Empire's progress in Armenia, and in A.D. 1071 five years after the Norman founded at Hastings the strong government which has been the making of England the Seljuk Turk shattered at the battle of Melasgerd that heritage of strong government which had promised so much to Greece. Melasgerd opened the way to Anatolia.
Turk and Anatolian coalesced into one people; every mountain, river, lake, bridge, and village in the country took on a Turkish name, and a new nation was established for ever in the heart of the Romaic world, which nourished itself on the life-blood of the Empire and was to prove the supreme enemy, of the race. This sequel to Melasgerd sealed the Empire's doom.
It was heralded by adventurers from Normandy, who had first served the Romaic Government as mercenaries in southern Italy and then expelled their employers, about the time of Melasgerd, from their last foothold in the peninsula.
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