A remnant of the Byzantine Empire survived in Nicaea (now Iznik), and recaptured Constantinople in 1261, but the city had been shattered and its great monuments were strip?ΰed of gold, silver, and precious works of art.
The Byzantine Empire lost and then regained Constantinople.
and i can imagine if i had to mow the lawn in the back which we said we'd do if the trees hang down so low and the locus trees have like three quarters of an inch thorns on it so