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With nothing to distract him away from us, we would be receiving the full force of the Basileus and the Greeks" said another. "The Emperor is bluffing, his armies and coffers have been depleted by constant warfare" said one of her advisors, "but they've reached a truce just recently.
He sent a dispatch to Sardegna ordering Lucia to appear before him in the capital, and to surrender all her lands, for a Greek noble would take over rulership of the island. He was furious that Lucia could consort with those of the Western rite, and even worse, with the Franks, who he recognized as a threat to his influence in the Mediterranean.
The Empire had been ravaged by multiple civil wars waged between the Orthodox followers, and the Iconoclasts led by the Emperor, and he was an extremely zealous man. When news of this reached the court of Emperor Basileus, he became enraged. The months passed by rapidly, and in June of 770 Strategitissa Lucia would give birth to a strong, healthy boy named Adriano. This continues to the modern day, nearly half of all sheep in Italy coming from Sardinia Foreign trade became difficult, and many mines of old were abandoned, with the locals instead becoming farmers and shepherds. This would force the local populations to become increasingly self-reliant and to abandon Greek for the lingua franca of its neighbors (Latin), and its local Sardinian language, as well as to form closer links to the Pope in Rome, for the locals actually followed the Eastern Rite around this time. These raids would force the population to abandon many of these population centers and instead move deeper to the interior of the island in order to avoid the raids, which further damaged the link between the Greek overlords. Starting in the year 705 many Moor and Berber peoples started raiding the coastal towns and villages of the island, hurting communication between it and Constantinople.
Taken back from the Vandals by the Byzantines in 533, Sardinia had experienced more than two centuries of uninterrupted rule by the Greeks in the East (aside from a short invasion by Totila, King of the Ostrogoths, in 551), but the rise of Islam posed a new danger to this far flung Byzantine province. It had been many centuries since the fall of the Roman Empire, but it's effect had been long felt in the island of Sardinia.
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