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Group: Mandinka people
People: Grigory Orlov
Topic: Savoyard Crusade
Location: Poti > Phasis Georgia

Savoyard Crusade

Years: 1366 - 1367

The Savoyard crusade (1366–67) is born out of the same planning that led to the Alexandrian Crusade.

It is the brainchild of Pope Urban V and is led by Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy, against the Ottoman Empire in eastern Europe.

Although originally intended as a collaboration with the Kingdom of Hungary and the Byzantine Empire, the crusade is diverted to attack the Second Bulgarian Empire, where it makes small gains that it hands over to the East Romans (Byzantines).

It makes these small gains against the Ottomans in the vicinity of Constantinople and on Gallipoli.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)