Did you know that Catalans were banned from entering Mount Athos for 700 years until 2005?>In the early 14th century (around 1303), the Byzantine Empire hired a fierce Catalan mercenary army known as the Catalan Company to fight the Turks.>After the Byzantines betrayed and murdered the mercenaries' leader, Roger de Flor, in 1305, the Catalan Company went on a destructive rampage.>They invaded, looted, and heavily damaged the monasteries of Mount Athos, leaving an enduring grievance in the memory of the monastic community.>The Byzantine Empire's decision to betray and assassinate Roger de Flor in 1305 was driven by a mix of financial desperation, the predatory behavior of the mercenaries, and a growing fear that de Flor was trying to seize the empire for himself.
crazy how much they seethe about Spain only to invite the whole world into their land
>>225053764byzantroons had it coming for betraying de Flor first
>>225053961Everyone is better than Spanish and Melonians
>>225053764why would they even care so they can't enter some mountain that holds importance solely for orthodox believers? anyway, what does modern Greece even have to do with the Byzantine Empire?
>>225054319>what does modern Greece even have to do with the Byzantine Empire?holy cope wzwzwzez, you should know better
>>225054319>why would they even care so they can't enter some mountain that holds importance solely for orthodox believers?Came here to ask this
>>225053764>Women can't enter the mountain>Catalans can't enter the mountain>Therefore Catalans are women (or women are Catalans)
Why were they allowed back? Their evil deeds should result in an eternal ban
>>225054730What evil deeds?
>>225054809Sacking there holiest monastery in Christendom
>>225053961This
>>225055207Why fuck are there shias in Barcelona
>>225055371Catalans worship pakis/jeets and muslims, imagine London or Berlin but much poorer, and there you have Barcelona, and the rest of Catalonia is no better.
>>225053764Not surprising, even in the middle ages the duplicitous snakelike nature of catalans was well known. Dante even dunked on them
>>225055677while people may joke that london/paris/berlin look like 3rd world, barcelona with new indian wave looks 100% like a city in india
>>225053764nice bum
>>225054938>officially endorse a backstabbing murderer as the viceregent of christThey had it coming.
>>225055817Indian cities look like THIS??
