on the gates of Constantinople

[@ClayandPapyrus]

Never thought I would be intimidated by the failing Byzantine Empire

[@holyromanempireball465]

especially what the last Emperor said when he was offered to go to Hungary to escape the Ottomans sieging Constantinople. He said, '' No Emperor should out live his Empire"

[@leonida5943]

Ehy here his a fact : when the visigots puted under siege Constantinople the byzantines sallied out whit cavaliery and one of them reportedly cuted off one of the visigots warriors heads picked up in front of the visigot army and started sucking blod out of it then he trowed the head in the direction of visigots to then spit in that direction and then he just got back in city. The visigots would abbandon the siege days later