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After losing all northwestern Anatolia to the Ottoman Turks, the Byzantines come to terms with the Ottomans and other Turkish emirs. The Byzantines then hire Turkish soldiers to help them against European enemies such as the Italians, Serbs, and Bulgars.
Edward III of England, grandson of Philip IV of France, claims the French crown, which has gone to Philip IV's nephew Philip VI in 1328. Edward lands an army in Flanders, thus beginning the intermittent struggle known as the "Hundred Years' War" (1337- 1453).
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