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after the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Baristarim 00:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
To avoid a revert war, I'll make my position plain here: Morea and Trebizond may have been satellite states, but that does not mean that their capitals were capitals of the Byzantine Empire! Furthermore, Trebizond was effectively independent, and not under the Palaeologus dynasty. Moreas was an autonomous part of the Byzantine Empire, with its own capital, but still subject to Constantinople. And the Empire of Nicaea was not the Byzantine Empire. It was merely one of the many Greek successor states established after 1204, and is generally regarded by historians as a separate entity. If Epirus had taken Constantinople back, then it would have been regarded as the "legitimate" successor. The only "true" Byzantine Empire was the one with Constantinople as its capital, and even the court at Nicaea saw themselves as but in temporary exile from the "legitimate capital" during 1204-1261. The Empire and the City were identical in the Byzantine mindset, which is why Constantine XI could not abandon it in favour of Moreas when Mehmed II made him that offer. To speak of a "capital of the Byzantine Empire" other than Constantinople is simply wrong. There is simply no way that Mystras, Nicaea or Trebizond can even be compared to the status that Constantinople enjoyed. Regards, Cplakidas 18:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
And, without Mystras and Trebizond, the article cannot continue to argue that "the fall of Constantinople wasn't the definitive end and that the Byzantine Empire continued to function for several more years" (more explicitly, this definition refers to Mystras and Trebizond). KeremTuncay 18:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
These are merely your opinions I'm afraid. Nicaea was the interim Byzantine capital city, and Mystras and Trebizond were interim capitals as well, between 1453-1460 and 1453-1461, respectively.
The Byzantines didn't go to Mars with a spaceship in 1204 and suddenly returned back in 1261. KeremTuncay 18:31, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Defining an Empire's existence with a single city is ridiculous.
The Ottoman Empire existed before the conquest of Istanbul (Constantinople), when Bursa (Prusa) and Edirne (Adrianople) were "Ottoman" capital cities as well; just like Mediolanum (Milan), Ravenna, Nicomedia and Constantinople were also "Roman" capital cities (not just "Rome").
I don't understand what's this "Constantinople obsession" in defining the Byzantine Empire. KeremTuncay 18:56, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps this explains the continuing Greek desire for Constantinople, LOL :)
Just kidding by the way KeremTuncay 19:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
OOOOOOOOOOOFFF, OF!... Poli mou, where are you... :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQHYxD3CDbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMPjX4W-GWw
Great film and songs by the way KeremTuncay 19:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
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Welcome to Wikipedia!! I hope that you will enjoy your time here. I was thinking that maybe you would like to get involved with Wikipedia:WikiProject Turkey - we need all the help that we can get. There you can also find and contact users who are trying to improve Turkey-related articles and coordinate group work. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Happy editing! Baristarim 00:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Dear Kerem, please visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Turkey/Current tasks, we need help there.Kolay gelsin. Must.T C 17:08, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
O.K. :) KeremTuncay 17:16, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
If you read the talk page, you will see I tell you that I do not claim to have finalised these images, only proposing a better layout. If you know a better picture to put then do it, but we cannot put everything. I understand you come from wowturkey, and your passion is for photography, but Wikipedia is not an image gallery, its an article and we have to balance images with factual content. --A.Garnet 00:04, 29 March 2007 (UTC)