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The Maniots were the last holdouts of Rome/The Byzantine Empire, and managed to fend off the Turks for hundreds of years without being conquered. Why did they manage to hold out when the rest of Greece fell? Were the Turks trying very hard to conquer them?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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