Thursday, September 30, 2004

Turks still have to shake off "hordes of the Apocalypse" image

"To this earliest recollection of the Turks' parentage with the terrible Huns who ravaged Europe half a millennium earlier, traditional European history has added the more recent memory of the threat they posed to Christian Europe after their conversion to Islam in the 10th century.

The arrival of the "scourge of Christianity" on Mediterranean shores in the 11th century led to a series of wars between Christian princes and the Seljuk Dynasty, from whose ashes the Ottomans emerged in the early 1300s."

EU Business - For Europe, Turks still have to shake off "hordes of the Apocalypse" image

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