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1. Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 02:12:21 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship:
   For the 14th Day of White History Month we celebrate the restorer of the Western Roman Empire Otto the Great and the Conqueror of the Khazar Khaganate Svyatoslav the Brave!
   
   Otto the Great's father Henry the Fowler, was the duke of Saxony in 912 AD and distant relative of the Saxon chief Widukind who fought Charlemagne. They had remained vassals of East Francia but the Carolingian dynasty was now collapsing in the face of the Magyar invasions. Driven West by the Khazar Khaganate, a tribe of horselords claiming descent from the Huns had invaded the Pannonian basin. From that base of power they had begun launching raids into Christendom. Western Europe was in a crisis, desperate for competent leaders. Henry the Fowler rose to power due to his military campaigns in middle Francia, where he and his son Otto had taken Lothringia from the West Franks. When the German lords came to Henry to offer him the crown in 919 AD, he was tending to his messenger birds. Thus the nickname the Fowler.
   
   Otto became King of Germany in 936 AD. His most pressing task was halting the relentless incursions of the Magyars. Marching 7000 heavy cavalry through Bavaria, Otto met the army of 10,000 horse archers led by Taksony at the plains of Lechfeld in 955. Taksony was the grandson of the legendary Magyar chief Arpad who first settled in Pannonia. The battle was extremely costly for Otto, but ultimately the Magyars fled east, hoping to return and fight another day. Otto had planned for this, before the battle he had sent riders further east to block all bridges and river crossings, trapping the retreating horselords in bavaria, where they could be hunted down and slaughtered in the rainy night. The Magyar military leaders were captured and executed, the King swore to never again attack Western Christendom. From that day until World War 2, the Magyars kept to that oath and remained loyal allies of Germany. Otto finished his reign with the goal of restoring the Western Empire, known as "Renovatio imperii Romanorum." Otto invaded Italy and was crowned Emperor by the Pope in 962 AD. The Holy Roman Empire would rule over central Europe until the conquests of Napoleon in 1806.
   
   In 862, the Norse Viking Rurik was invited by the Rus slavs around Novgorod to rule over them. Rurik conquered down to Kiev and founded Kievan Rus. Rurik's son Igor married an Olga of Kiev, who would later become a saint. Igor would die fighting a neighboring tribe from the Khazar Khaganate. Svyatoslav the Brave became Grand Prince of a United Kievan Rus in 945. Following the death of his father Igor, His mother Saint Olga had been the first female ruler of the Rus during Svyatoslav's regency and she was the first to be baptized. Sviatoslav the Brave went on the conquer the Khazar Khaganate and his later campaigns along the Danube would destroy the first Bulgar Empire. His son Vladimir the Great was the King responsible for Christianizing the Rus and cementing their ties with the Byzantine Dynasties.