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Potens Byzantii Europae trans Bosporum MXCVII  
Asia Minor multaque ferox quassus fretus in superi  
   
          Byzantine and Europe’s might crossed the Bosporus, 1097,    
          all Asia Minor waits, defiant, trembling, trusting in Heaven.    
   
Missus est fortis eques Urbini excursor procul arma    
trans sudum montes sola pastor vidit in Nicomedia    
 
          Sent alone, brave knight of Urbino, scouting, was far from the army,    
          as he rode o’er tanned hills, shepherdess, lonely spied he in Kocaeli.     ...