051: Byzantine Golden Age: There Can Only Be One Emperor

Send us a textAfter a clever assassination, another General seizes the imperial throne. Immediately he is faced with a revolt in the Balkans, and an invasion by the Kievan Rus from the North. After mopping things up in the West he marches his army east where he takes back lost imperial lands and comes face to face with a new… organized enemy… The Fatimid Caliphate.The History of Modern Greece Podcast covers the events of the Greek People from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Greek Wa...