Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokaci guda, Byzantium ta fuskanci sababbin abokan gaba. Yankunansa a kudancin Italiya sun yi barazanar Normans, waɗanda suka isa Italiya a farkon ƙarni na 11. A lokacin rikici tsakanin Constantinople da Rome wanda ya ƙare a cikin Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta 1054, Norman ya fara ci gaba, a hankali amma a hankali, a cikin Byzantine Italiya. Reggio, babban birnin tagma na Calabria, Robert Guiscard ya kama shi a cikin 1060, sannan Otranto ya biyo baya a cikin 1068. Bari, babban sansanin Byzantine a Apulia, an kewaye shi a watan Agusta 1068 kuma ya faɗi a watan Afrilu 1071
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