SC - SC- Turkeys again, Again!

[Nanna Rognvaldardottir]

In a message dated 5/9/2000 4:06:07 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
RButler96 at aol.com writes:

<< I must ask this list what is considered European... 
 
     If you consider Hungary european, then you must certainly consider the 
 Ottoman empire to be at least Eastern European.  If no other reason than the 
 Turks ruled this land for several hundreds of years. >>

As the resident Magyar I have to pipe in here. . .yes Hungary can be 
considered part of Europe for this forum.   And yes the Ottoman Turks did 
rule the area for many years, but for the time frame many of us are looking 
at (pre-1600), they had only ruled that region for under 100 years. (73 to be 
exact since the Turks defeated the Hungarian army at the Battle of Mohacs in 
1527.)   The Turks may have ruled the Balkans and most of Hungary, but I 
would never consider them Eastern European.  They are most defintely a 
Central Asian group that invaded and destroyed the remains of the Byzantine 
Empire and became a powerful player.


Fekete Noemi
wandering off. . .not to the rock but back down to that little circular house 
she lives in by the river. . .