Why didn't the Byzantines just conquer all those small muslim duchies?

Why didn't the Byzantines just conquer all those small muslim duchies?

Did they fear the Turkish warrior?

they literally feared the turkish warrior
they wouldn't beg pope for help otherwise

Byzantines were tiring themselves apart in a series of civil strife.

BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT —THEY LACKED THE SPIRITUAL CAPABILITY.

THE FACT THAT THAT PSEUDOEMPIRE LASTED FOR SO LONG IS ASTOUNDING.

Same reason they didnt make a move trying to reclaim egypt, north africa and the levant against the arabs when they were a bunch of small states that just got fucked by the mongols. They know that they will get btfo if they went on the offensive which is why for most of their time they adopted a defensive approach.

They lacked the manpower and political unity required for such undertakings. At this point, power was very decentralized, even for Byzantine standards.

mashallah brother, jihad on the western devils when

>Sultanate of Rome
>small, landlocked, squalid little duchy deep in anatolia
Out of all the wewuzzery surrounding Rome, this is perhaps the best.

Fuck we have the Turk poster and the spastic Arab now?

"EVIL" IS NOT EXCLUSIVE TO PEOPLES LIVING ON CERTAIN GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS, NOR IS "EVIL" CONTINGENT TO GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION.

the arabs called anatolia rome

this tripfag
has been around for a while, you must be new.

*rum*

He wishes he was an Arab, he's actually a beaner from Mexico.

Islam is inheritently evil though.

Go drown with your computer you fag.

t. Ahmed Al-Bombasari

t. Cletus Macinbred

by 1300, the Byzantines just simply could not hold their own anymore. Their empire had been divided up into many small counties and principalities of small states within their governance that swore semi allegiances. The forth Crusade marked the fall of the Empire as a whole where there was no more allies and no more power left. what held the Empire together was its own title and capital which we know eventually fell.

that little duchy was just the crown land of the Sultan, the other states were his vassals

Rum, Rome --same word in different languages, moron.

Christianity is inherently evil.
Capitalism is inherently evil.
War is inherently evil.
Your mother's diseased pussy is inherently evil.

Filtered. Thanks for using trips and fuck you for wasting digits

where di you find that piece of bread, comrade? I'll inform the commissar about this

After the ilkhanate rekt the seljuks it wasn't, the beyliks became more or less independant and so the ottoman empire started.