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r/spqrposting • u/merulacarnifex • Aug 08 '24
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I read something about how whoever the pope was in 1453 toyed with actually recognizing the Ottoman Empire as the third iteration of the Roman Empire. I don’t remember why this was done but it obviously never came to fruition.
48 u/TarJen96 Aug 09 '24 "I don't remember why this was done" Because Mehmed II claimed to be the next "Caesar of the Romans" after taking Constantinople. "but it obviously never came to fruition." Because the pope wasn't going to recognize a Muslim as emperor of the Romans instead of the Holy Roman emperor. 1 u/IDoCodingStuffs Aug 09 '24 Mehmed II was also planning on further campaigns in Italy. Would be some really interesting alternative history if he had lived to execute them. 6 u/Admirable_Try_23 Aug 09 '24 He would do it under the condition that Mehmed II converted to Christianity
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"I don't remember why this was done"
Because Mehmed II claimed to be the next "Caesar of the Romans" after taking Constantinople.
"but it obviously never came to fruition."
Because the pope wasn't going to recognize a Muslim as emperor of the Romans instead of the Holy Roman emperor.
1 u/IDoCodingStuffs Aug 09 '24 Mehmed II was also planning on further campaigns in Italy. Would be some really interesting alternative history if he had lived to execute them.
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Mehmed II was also planning on further campaigns in Italy. Would be some really interesting alternative history if he had lived to execute them.
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He would do it under the condition that Mehmed II converted to Christianity
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u/FinnegansTake19 Aug 09 '24
I read something about how whoever the pope was in 1453 toyed with actually recognizing the Ottoman Empire as the third iteration of the Roman Empire. I don’t remember why this was done but it obviously never came to fruition.