How Constantinople Saved the West
This week in history, on August 15, 718, Constantinople defeated the forces of Islam—and in so doing, saved Western civilization. The story is worth recounting: After several failed sieges, in the year 715, the Umayyad caliphate had concluded that enough was enough: it would vomit forth all it had in one final, all-out effort to […] |
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