#seeking asylum in constantinople

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A calm moment of post-coital pillow talk, featuring hair braiding and debates over the relative merits of the traditional Ptolemaic geocentric system versus this obscure old system by Aristarchus called heliocentricism. Very fascinating!

(The Dracon knows that he loves Michael, that Myca is only still a new friend he enjoys occasional intimacy with, but he does have to grudgingly admit that Myca is a better post-coital conversationalist. Michael never talks about geocentricism versus heliocentricism :( Mostly because he thinks the universe revolves around himself, but anyway.)

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Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti has grow to be immortal via his works on Turkey. The individuals of Constantinople have constructed a monument, a fountain, in his honor and have named one of many principal streets of the Metropolis after him. His title is cherished by tens of millions of Turks who deal with him as a pal, as a brother, when he involves Turkey. What’s most wanted for the American propaganda within the Close to East is an American Pierre Loti.

Not that the works undertaken and performed by American enterprises in Turkey are usually not very laudable in themselves. However they’re as inadequate to advertise a great and thorough understanding between the 2 individuals because the actions of the French missionaries have been earlier than the arrival of Pierre Loti. The French Freres and Sisters of Charity had many faculties, many hospitals and orphans asylums the place they have been doing excellent work for a lot of generations.

Nevertheless it took a Pierre Loti to determine the private bonds of friendship between the 2 individuals and to advertise, by this truth alone, all French pursuits in Turkey. He has made the lots of his countrymen istanbul day trip at dwelling know and recognize the Turks at their true worth. The work of an American Loti can be the crowning glory of all American enterprises within the Close to East.

I defined to our mates that this was my private opinion solely, and that I knew that the

American organizations

Turks appreciated absolutely the work that American organizations have been at current conducting in Turkey, and that my want to see an American Pierre Loti was solely attributable to a really official want of seeing my nation and my individuals higher identified in America, identified extra intimately and extra completely via the eyes of an neutral author relatively than via the eyes of people that may need sure pursuits in conserving alive the false popularity of the Turks.

Our American mates agreed implicitly with me and identified that what shocked them essentially the most on their arrival in Constantinople was to seek out that each one the People who have been in enterprise or in nonreligious work and who had had a chance to know the Turks had grow to be with out exception actual mates of this maligned race.

They mentioned cautious investigation would set up the truth that all those that have written or spoken in opposition to the Turks had accomplished so for an ulterior private motive. And so they deplored with me the truth that no nice American novelist had as but come to Turkey and popularized in his personal nation the data of the Turks as they are surely.

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The Ottoman Court

We did not perceive any vestige or monument of Magnesia having been once the seat of the Ottoman Court. The houses are ill built and mostly of wood ; the streets narrow and dirty. This had been the seat of the Eastern Empire, till, on the 19th of May 1453, Mahomet the second took Constantinople from Constantine Paleo- logus, and removed his Court to that celebrated city. Magnesia contains above one hundred thousand inhabitants, and next to Smyrna is the town of most trade in Turkey; being situated in one of the richest and most extensive plains in the universe. It has been distinguished for the fertility of its soil, and it is now one of the chief sources of supply to the cotton market of Smyrna.

This district, even in the time of Themistocles, four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, was bestowed on him, on account of its fertility, by Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Asia. And that noble Athenian chose this spot for his residence, when dismissed by Artaxerxes from his Court at Susa, whither he had fled to seek an asylum from the persecutions of the Greeks [sic] and Lacedemonians. Cornelius Nepos informs us that the revenues of this district then amounted to fifty talents (£11,250), and at the same time makes mention of the other districts which Themistocles held through the liberality of the Persian monarch.

Solicited by his benefactor

That illustrious general resided here many years, and on being solicited by his benefactor Artaxerxes to march an army against the Athenians he here swallowed poison, to avoid at once the imputation of ingratitude and the odium he must have incurred by fighting against his country. The Magnesians erected a magnificent monument to his memory in the great square in this city, which existed in the time of Plutarch; but neither square or monument is now visible.

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The Ottoman Court

We did not perceive any vestige or monument of Magnesia having been once the seat of the Ottoman Court. The houses are ill built and mostly of wood ; the streets narrow and dirty. This had been the seat of the Eastern Empire, till, on the 19th of May 1453, Mahomet the second took Constantinople from Constantine Paleo- logus, and removed his Court to that celebrated city. Magnesia contains above one hundred thousand inhabitants, and next to Smyrna is the town of most trade in Turkey; being situated in one of the richest and most extensive plains in the universe. It has been distinguished for the fertility of its soil, and it is now one of the chief sources of supply to the cotton market of Smyrna.

This district, even in the time of Themistocles, four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, was bestowed on him, on account of its fertility, by Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Asia. And that noble Athenian chose this spot for his residence, when dismissed by Artaxerxes from his Court at Susa, whither he had fled to seek an asylum from the persecutions of the Greeks [sic] and Lacedemonians. Cornelius Nepos informs us that the revenues of this district then amounted to fifty talents (£11,250), and at the same time makes mention of the other districts which Themistocles held through the liberality of the Persian monarch.

Solicited by his benefactor

That illustrious general resided here many years, and on being solicited by his benefactor Artaxerxes to march an army against the Athenians he here swallowed poison, to avoid at once the imputation of ingratitude and the odium he must have incurred by fighting against his country. The Magnesians erected a magnificent monument to his memory in the great square in this city, which existed in the time of Plutarch; but neither square or monument is now visible.

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The Ottoman Court

We did not perceive any vestige or monument of Magnesia having been once the seat of the Ottoman Court. The houses are ill built and mostly of wood ; the streets narrow and dirty. This had been the seat of the Eastern Empire, till, on the 19th of May 1453, Mahomet the second took Constantinople from Constantine Paleo- logus, and removed his Court to that celebrated city. Magnesia contains above one hundred thousand inhabitants, and next to Smyrna is the town of most trade in Turkey; being situated in one of the richest and most extensive plains in the universe. It has been distinguished for the fertility of its soil, and it is now one of the chief sources of supply to the cotton market of Smyrna.

This district, even in the time of Themistocles, four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, was bestowed on him, on account of its fertility, by Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Asia. And that noble Athenian chose this spot for his residence, when dismissed by Artaxerxes from his Court at Susa, whither he had fled to seek an asylum from the persecutions of the Greeks [sic] and Lacedemonians. Cornelius Nepos informs us that the revenues of this district then amounted to fifty talents (£11,250), and at the same time makes mention of the other districts which Themistocles held through the liberality of the Persian monarch.

Solicited by his benefactor

That illustrious general resided here many years, and on being solicited by his benefactor Artaxerxes to march an army against the Athenians he here swallowed poison, to avoid at once the imputation of ingratitude and the odium he must have incurred by fighting against his country. The Magnesians erected a magnificent monument to his memory in the great square in this city, which existed in the time of Plutarch; but neither square or monument is now visible.

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The Ottoman Court

We did not perceive any vestige or monument of Magnesia having been once the seat of the Ottoman Court. The houses are ill built and mostly of wood ; the streets narrow and dirty. This had been the seat of the Eastern Empire, till, on the 19th of May 1453, Mahomet the second took Constantinople from Constantine Paleo- logus, and removed his Court to that celebrated city. Magnesia contains above one hundred thousand inhabitants, and next to Smyrna is the town of most trade in Turkey; being situated in one of the richest and most extensive plains in the universe. It has been distinguished for the fertility of its soil, and it is now one of the chief sources of supply to the cotton market of Smyrna.

This district, even in the time of Themistocles, four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, was bestowed on him, on account of its fertility, by Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Asia. And that noble Athenian chose this spot for his residence, when dismissed by Artaxerxes from his Court at Susa, whither he had fled to seek an asylum from the persecutions of the Greeks [sic] and Lacedemonians. Cornelius Nepos informs us that the revenues of this district then amounted to fifty talents (£11,250), and at the same time makes mention of the other districts which Themistocles held through the liberality of the Persian monarch.

Solicited by his benefactor

That illustrious general resided here many years, and on being solicited by his benefactor Artaxerxes to march an army against the Athenians he here swallowed poison, to avoid at once the imputation of ingratitude and the odium he must have incurred by fighting against his country. The Magnesians erected a magnificent monument to his memory in the great square in this city, which existed in the time of Plutarch; but neither square or monument is now visible.

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The Ottoman Court

We did not perceive any vestige or monument of Magnesia having been once the seat of the Ottoman Court. The houses are ill built and mostly of wood ; the streets narrow and dirty. This had been the seat of the Eastern Empire, till, on the 19th of May 1453, Mahomet the second took Constantinople from Constantine Paleo- logus, and removed his Court to that celebrated city. Magnesia contains above one hundred thousand inhabitants, and next to Smyrna is the town of most trade in Turkey; being situated in one of the richest and most extensive plains in the universe. It has been distinguished for the fertility of its soil, and it is now one of the chief sources of supply to the cotton market of Smyrna.

This district, even in the time of Themistocles, four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, was bestowed on him, on account of its fertility, by Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Asia. And that noble Athenian chose this spot for his residence, when dismissed by Artaxerxes from his Court at Susa, whither he had fled to seek an asylum from the persecutions of the Greeks [sic] and Lacedemonians. Cornelius Nepos informs us that the revenues of this district then amounted to fifty talents (£11,250), and at the same time makes mention of the other districts which Themistocles held through the liberality of the Persian monarch.

Solicited by his benefactor

That illustrious general resided here many years, and on being solicited by his benefactor Artaxerxes to march an army against the Athenians he here swallowed poison, to avoid at once the imputation of ingratitude and the odium he must have incurred by fighting against his country. The Magnesians erected a magnificent monument to his memory in the great square in this city, which existed in the time of Plutarch; but neither square or monument is now visible.

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The Ottoman Court

We did not perceive any vestige or monument of Magnesia having been once the seat of the Ottoman Court. The houses are ill built and mostly of wood ; the streets narrow and dirty. This had been the seat of the Eastern Empire, till, on the 19th of May 1453, Mahomet the second took Constantinople from Constantine Paleo- logus, and removed his Court to that celebrated city. Magnesia contains above one hundred thousand inhabitants, and next to Smyrna is the town of most trade in Turkey; being situated in one of the richest and most extensive plains in the universe. It has been distinguished for the fertility of its soil, and it is now one of the chief sources of supply to the cotton market of Smyrna.

This district, even in the time of Themistocles, four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, was bestowed on him, on account of its fertility, by Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Asia. And that noble Athenian chose this spot for his residence, when dismissed by Artaxerxes from his Court at Susa, whither he had fled to seek an asylum from the persecutions of the Greeks [sic] and Lacedemonians. Cornelius Nepos informs us that the revenues of this district then amounted to fifty talents (£11,250), and at the same time makes mention of the other districts which Themistocles held through the liberality of the Persian monarch.

Solicited by his benefactor

That illustrious general resided here many years, and on being solicited by his benefactor Artaxerxes to march an army against the Athenians he here swallowed poison, to avoid at once the imputation of ingratitude and the odium he must have incurred by fighting against his country. The Magnesians erected a magnificent monument to his memory in the great square in this city, which existed in the time of Plutarch; but neither square or monument is now visible.

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The Ottoman Court

We did not perceive any vestige or monument of Magnesia having been once the seat of the Ottoman Court. The houses are ill built and mostly of wood ; the streets narrow and dirty. This had been the seat of the Eastern Empire, till, on the 19th of May 1453, Mahomet the second took Constantinople from Constantine Paleo- logus, and removed his Court to that celebrated city. Magnesia contains above one hundred thousand inhabitants, and next to Smyrna is the town of most trade in Turkey; being situated in one of the richest and most extensive plains in the universe. It has been distinguished for the fertility of its soil, and it is now one of the chief sources of supply to the cotton market of Smyrna.

This district, even in the time of Themistocles, four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, was bestowed on him, on account of its fertility, by Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Asia. And that noble Athenian chose this spot for his residence, when dismissed by Artaxerxes from his Court at Susa, whither he had fled to seek an asylum from the persecutions of the Greeks [sic] and Lacedemonians. Cornelius Nepos informs us that the revenues of this district then amounted to fifty talents (£11,250), and at the same time makes mention of the other districts which Themistocles held through the liberality of the Persian monarch.

Solicited by his benefactor

That illustrious general resided here many years, and on being solicited by his benefactor Artaxerxes to march an army against the Athenians he here swallowed poison, to avoid at once the imputation of ingratitude and the odium he must have incurred by fighting against his country. The Magnesians erected a magnificent monument to his memory in the great square in this city, which existed in the time of Plutarch; but neither square or monument is now visible.

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The Ottoman Court

We did not perceive any vestige or monument of Magnesia having been once the seat of the Ottoman Court. The houses are ill built and mostly of wood ; the streets narrow and dirty. This had been the seat of the Eastern Empire, till, on the 19th of May 1453, Mahomet the second took Constantinople from Constantine Paleo- logus, and removed his Court to that celebrated city. Magnesia contains above one hundred thousand inhabitants, and next to Smyrna is the town of most trade in Turkey; being situated in one of the richest and most extensive plains in the universe. It has been distinguished for the fertility of its soil, and it is now one of the chief sources of supply to the cotton market of Smyrna.

This district, even in the time of Themistocles, four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, was bestowed on him, on account of its fertility, by Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Asia. And that noble Athenian chose this spot for his residence, when dismissed by Artaxerxes from his Court at Susa, whither he had fled to seek an asylum from the persecutions of the Greeks [sic] and Lacedemonians. Cornelius Nepos informs us that the revenues of this district then amounted to fifty talents (£11,250), and at the same time makes mention of the other districts which Themistocles held through the liberality of the Persian monarch.

Solicited by his benefactor

That illustrious general resided here many years, and on being solicited by his benefactor Artaxerxes to march an army against the Athenians he here swallowed poison, to avoid at once the imputation of ingratitude and the odium he must have incurred by fighting against his country. The Magnesians erected a magnificent monument to his memory in the great square in this city, which existed in the time of Plutarch; but neither square or monument is now visible.

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The Ottoman Court

We did not perceive any vestige or monument of Magnesia having been once the seat of the Ottoman Court. The houses are ill built and mostly of wood ; the streets narrow and dirty. This had been the seat of the Eastern Empire, till, on the 19th of May 1453, Mahomet the second took Constantinople from Constantine Paleo- logus, and removed his Court to that celebrated city. Magnesia contains above one hundred thousand inhabitants, and next to Smyrna is the town of most trade in Turkey; being situated in one of the richest and most extensive plains in the universe. It has been distinguished for the fertility of its soil, and it is now one of the chief sources of supply to the cotton market of Smyrna.

This district, even in the time of Themistocles, four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, was bestowed on him, on account of its fertility, by Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Asia. And that noble Athenian chose this spot for his residence, when dismissed by Artaxerxes from his Court at Susa, whither he had fled to seek an asylum from the persecutions of the Greeks [sic] and Lacedemonians. Cornelius Nepos informs us that the revenues of this district then amounted to fifty talents (£11,250), and at the same time makes mention of the other districts which Themistocles held through the liberality of the Persian monarch.

Solicited by his benefactor

That illustrious general resided here many years, and on being solicited by his benefactor Artaxerxes to march an army against the Athenians he here swallowed poison, to avoid at once the imputation of ingratitude and the odium he must have incurred by fighting against his country. The Magnesians erected a magnificent monument to his memory in the great square in this city, which existed in the time of Plutarch; but neither square or monument is now visible.

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The Ottoman Court

We did not perceive any vestige or monument of Magnesia having been once the seat of the Ottoman Court. The houses are ill built and mostly of wood ; the streets narrow and dirty. This had been the seat of the Eastern Empire, till, on the 19th of May 1453, Mahomet the second took Constantinople from Constantine Paleo- logus, and removed his Court to that celebrated city. Magnesia contains above one hundred thousand inhabitants, and next to Smyrna is the town of most trade in Turkey; being situated in one of the richest and most extensive plains in the universe. It has been distinguished for the fertility of its soil, and it is now one of the chief sources of supply to the cotton market of Smyrna.

This district, even in the time of Themistocles, four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, was bestowed on him, on account of its fertility, by Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Asia. And that noble Athenian chose this spot for his residence, when dismissed by Artaxerxes from his Court at Susa, whither he had fled to seek an asylum from the persecutions of the Greeks [sic] and Lacedemonians. Cornelius Nepos informs us that the revenues of this district then amounted to fifty talents (£11,250), and at the same time makes mention of the other districts which Themistocles held through the liberality of the Persian monarch.

Solicited by his benefactor

That illustrious general resided here many years, and on being solicited by his benefactor Artaxerxes to march an army against the Athenians he here swallowed poison, to avoid at once the imputation of ingratitude and the odium he must have incurred by fighting against his country. The Magnesians erected a magnificent monument to his memory in the great square in this city, which existed in the time of Plutarch; but neither square or monument is now visible.

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The Ottoman Court

We did not perceive any vestige or monument of Magnesia having been once the seat of the Ottoman Court. The houses are ill built and mostly of wood ; the streets narrow and dirty. This had been the seat of the Eastern Empire, till, on the 19th of May 1453, Mahomet the second took Constantinople from Constantine Paleo- logus, and removed his Court to that celebrated city. Magnesia contains above one hundred thousand inhabitants, and next to Smyrna is the town of most trade in Turkey; being situated in one of the richest and most extensive plains in the universe. It has been distinguished for the fertility of its soil, and it is now one of the chief sources of supply to the cotton market of Smyrna.

This district, even in the time of Themistocles, four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, was bestowed on him, on account of its fertility, by Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Asia. And that noble Athenian chose this spot for his residence, when dismissed by Artaxerxes from his Court at Susa, whither he had fled to seek an asylum from the persecutions of the Greeks [sic] and Lacedemonians. Cornelius Nepos informs us that the revenues of this district then amounted to fifty talents (£11,250), and at the same time makes mention of the other districts which Themistocles held through the liberality of the Persian monarch.

Solicited by his benefactor

That illustrious general resided here many years, and on being solicited by his benefactor Artaxerxes to march an army against the Athenians he here swallowed poison, to avoid at once the imputation of ingratitude and the odium he must have incurred by fighting against his country. The Magnesians erected a magnificent monument to his memory in the great square in this city, which existed in the time of Plutarch; but neither square or monument is now visible.

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The Ottoman Court

We did not perceive any vestige or monument of Magnesia having been once the seat of the Ottoman Court. The houses are ill built and mostly of wood ; the streets narrow and dirty. This had been the seat of the Eastern Empire, till, on the 19th of May 1453, Mahomet the second took Constantinople from Constantine Paleo- logus, and removed his Court to that celebrated city. Magnesia contains above one hundred thousand inhabitants, and next to Smyrna is the town of most trade in Turkey; being situated in one of the richest and most extensive plains in the universe. It has been distinguished for the fertility of its soil, and it is now one of the chief sources of supply to the cotton market of Smyrna.

This district, even in the time of Themistocles, four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, was bestowed on him, on account of its fertility, by Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Asia. And that noble Athenian chose this spot for his residence, when dismissed by Artaxerxes from his Court at Susa, whither he had fled to seek an asylum from the persecutions of the Greeks [sic] and Lacedemonians. Cornelius Nepos informs us that the revenues of this district then amounted to fifty talents (£11,250), and at the same time makes mention of the other districts which Themistocles held through the liberality of the Persian monarch.

Solicited by his benefactor

That illustrious general resided here many years, and on being solicited by his benefactor Artaxerxes to march an army against the Athenians he here swallowed poison, to avoid at once the imputation of ingratitude and the odium he must have incurred by fighting against his country. The Magnesians erected a magnificent monument to his memory in the great square in this city, which existed in the time of Plutarch; but neither square or monument is now visible.

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The Ottoman Court

We did not perceive any vestige or monument of Magnesia having been once the seat of the Ottoman Court. The houses are ill built and mostly of wood ; the streets narrow and dirty. This had been the seat of the Eastern Empire, till, on the 19th of May 1453, Mahomet the second took Constantinople from Constantine Paleo- logus, and removed his Court to that celebrated city. Magnesia contains above one hundred thousand inhabitants, and next to Smyrna is the town of most trade in Turkey; being situated in one of the richest and most extensive plains in the universe. It has been distinguished for the fertility of its soil, and it is now one of the chief sources of supply to the cotton market of Smyrna.

This district, even in the time of Themistocles, four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, was bestowed on him, on account of its fertility, by Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Asia. And that noble Athenian chose this spot for his residence, when dismissed by Artaxerxes from his Court at Susa, whither he had fled to seek an asylum from the persecutions of the Greeks [sic] and Lacedemonians. Cornelius Nepos informs us that the revenues of this district then amounted to fifty talents (£11,250), and at the same time makes mention of the other districts which Themistocles held through the liberality of the Persian monarch.

Solicited by his benefactor

That illustrious general resided here many years, and on being solicited by his benefactor Artaxerxes to march an army against the Athenians he here swallowed poison, to avoid at once the imputation of ingratitude and the odium he must have incurred by fighting against his country. The Magnesians erected a magnificent monument to his memory in the great square in this city, which existed in the time of Plutarch; but neither square or monument is now visible.

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"Gawain took 'The Brass Shield'. It's the only ship the crosses the sea to the Desert Kingdom." "Yes, because nobody wants to go to the Desert Kingdom!"

Saljūqiyān-i Rûm

In the mid-1070s, Süleyman I successfully wrested control of Anatolia from the Byzantine rule of the Holy Roman Empire. Allowing the Greek-Byzantine populous to remain, under Seljuk Turk governance, he established the it as The Seljuk Sultanate of Rome. Though under Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim rulership, archeological & historical evidence indicates Jewish & Christian communities there were not only tolerated not only tolerated there prior to the onset of Crusader conquests beginning in 1096, but thrived. Süleyman's son Kilij Arslan I inherited his father's Sultanate in 1092.

In 1096, infamous Crusader Monk 'Peter the Hermit' & his Lieutenant 'Walter the Penniless' led their notorious "People's Crusade" (estimated to have been anywhere between 30,000-60,000 strong) on a march of anti-semetic & anti-saracen slaughter & forced conversion from Germany to Constantinople, until they reached Saljūqiyān-i Rûm.

After crossing the Bosporus Strait from Byzantine Constantinople into Anatolia, the People's Crusade bagan making their way toward the nearby Saljūqiyān-i Rûm capital at Nicaea. On 21 October 1096, Kilij Arslan - only 17 at the time - met the People's Crusade army (estimated to have been had a remaining force - due to desertion & deaths from poor provisioning & sickness - of roughly 20,000) on the road to Nicaea with his own waiting army. The 17 year old Sultan not only effective repelled this initial attempted invasion into Muslim-held Anatolia, but he effectively crushed the "People's Crusade". It's historically noted those combatants who surrendered were spared if they agreed to convert to Islam (a requirement put in place only because the Christian Crusade invasion had been perpetrated specifically in the name of Religious Holy War). Women, children, elderly & infirm who had marched with the People's Crusade were also expressly spared; they were granted leave to either return to Europe or to remain and be granted amnesty. The rest of the invading force were slaughtered. Of the presumed 20,000 who marched against the Turkish capital, only an estimated 3,000 or so escaped and/or voluntarily returned to Byzantine Constantinople.

The charismatic leader of this zealous movement turned out to have been notably conspicuously absent from his army's devastating defeat, having briefly returned to Constantinople to resupply shortly prior to his Lieutenant leading the failed march against Nicaea. Upon hearing his forces had been wiped out in his absence, the Crusader Monk fled back to Western Europe to rebuild his religious following & resume his campaign against non-Christians a couple of years later.

Parī (Peri) & Si'lat

Two classes of jinn from Persian lore, often considered relatively "benevolent" races of jinn in Turkish & Iranian Muslim Tradition.

Peri/Parī are most recognizable in their physical description as being winged, with a wide reputation for benevolent guidance & intercession on behalf of hunans.

Si'lat are frequently referenced in their natural form as somewhat resembling a greyhound lower body with a human upper body, but are noted to possess the ability to shape-shift & adopt human a human appearance. They're frequently credited with having knowledge surpassing that of humans. They're often mentioned in much folklore to have a fairly open-minded view regarding humans, however, being known to shape-shift into human form & live among them. They often insert themselves into human dilemmas, trying - because of their superior intelligence - to fix matters (to admittedly varying success).

*Sanctuary in the Desert Kingdom*

In the context of the 'Cursed'-verse and canon references to the possibility of the Desert Kingdoms as a considered destination for the Fey Refugees in Britain to seek asylum, the Turko-Persian historical reputation for religious tolerance might correlate to a hopeful assumption that the Muslim held region was likely to also be more tolerant of the Fey, as well as offer potential allies against their common Crusader & Vatican enemy.

*Djinn as Turko-Persian Fey Folk*

Still viewed in much Islamic folklore to be outright benevolent or largely non-malevolent classes of Djinn with a traditional reputation for a positive or open-minded view of humans & stories of attempts to intercede on their behalf, Peri & Si'lat are among the most likely regional "Fey" clans to have sought to render aid to innocent & displaced victims of the Crusades, regardless of species. Noted by folklore to also have been among the most intelligent of the Djinn, they are also two of the Clans most likely to have possessed alchemic, scientific, technical & medicinal skills with which to assist in treating wounded or defending against siege, as well as the willingness to share that knowledge with those in need.