The Byzantine Empire pretty much did lose all of Anatolia because they invited Turkish mercenaries who kept switching between Imperial and rebel forces for better land grants.
>>18268311What about the Plague of Justinian which killed about 20% of the population of Byzantium that afflicted the entire Mediterranean Basin and the Near East?
Yeah unfortunately true.
so much fuckups there, almost like the west today
Nothing was going to stop the Turks. The Turkic migration had already swallowed up joints about as rich and powerful as the Byz on their way across Persia and Transoxiana.
Something similar happened in Britain when Roman aristocrats invited a few Saxons to serve as their mercenaries.
