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J. Preiser-Kapeller
Byzanzforscher
How big was the #NewRome? The spatial extent of #Byzantine #Constantinople within a modern map of #Istanbul (and several other cities will follow in the tweets below) The spatial extent
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Emin Gün Sirer
el33th4xor
Nice to see Avalanche at the top of this list.https://twitter.com/Coin98Analytics/status/1349176217514037249 Note that the metric that really matters is the number of validators that participate in each round. Let me explain
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☦️☠️ Alex S
SpenglerPravda
Caths really need to come up with better jabs than the Hagia Sophia becoming a mosque because you may as well be just reducing yourself to an ethnocentrist larp. Caths
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Dr Caitlin Green
caitlinrgreen
A Middle Byzantine coin from Carbis Bay, Cornwall — a new brief post by me :) https://www.caitlingreen.org/2020/12/a-middle-byzantine-coin-from-carbis-bay.html It is not the only find of a Byzantine coin from a south-western
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@GiBiTheSecond ⚖️
Wolfophobic2
Greek fire was an incendiary weapon first used in Byzantine warfare in 678 by the Byzantine Greeks. It was made of several flammable compositions that were used in warfare in
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H_svki
Who is Khawlah Bint Al-Azwar? I’ve noticed that not a lot of people are familiar with one of th greatest female military leaders in Islamic history and I think
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Alexandra Vukovich
AlexandraVukov1
The #HagiaSophiaMosque debate has sparked questions about other monuments. For example here is a famous Athenian mosque built after 1721 (the previous one was ruined in the 1687 explosion), in
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Erin L. Thompson
artcrimeprof
I've just seen that Cyril Mango has died, after a long career. A moment to recommend his delightful 1963 paper “Antique Statuary and the Byzantine Beholder” (https://doi.org/10.2307/1291190 ). A thread of
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manvir singh
mnvrsngh
Like many people, I’ve assumed that the early Muslims were such successful conquerers because of the power of a new religion (Islam) to unify diverse peoples. But after doing some
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Fidato
tequieremos
When Sultan Mehmet conquered Constantinople at the age of 21 and ended the Byzantine Empire in 1453, he paid for the property of #HagiaSophia from his personal wealth before converting
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@GiBiTheSecond ⚖️
Wolfophobic2
Theodora, (497 CE—548) was a Byzantine empress, wife of the emperor Justinian I and one of most powerful woman in Byzantine history. Her intelligence and political abilities made her Justinian’s
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Alexandra Vukovich
AlexandraVukov1
A short photo on the Mosaics of #HagiaSophia a book of photographs published in 1950 by the Byzantine Institute in limited number to commemorate the uncovering of the Byzantine
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Martin de Azpilcueta 5’5” 130 IQ
ByzCat
I’m getting a bunch of new followers because of my thread, so I thought I would make a quick thread about myself for my new followers.I use this twitter account
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Onaiz Qutabzada 🇵🇰
YeniceriQ
Mevlana Rumi, the Whirling Dervishes and the Islamization of Asia Minor (Turkey)!An interesting thread on how Islam was spread in the Anatolian (Turkish) region during the Seljuq Rule. (1/N) The
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a packaged Malteser
GiuseppeAttar17
"Thread Time!" every now and then I will be doing what I have decided to call Thread Time on a variety of topics so my 1st topic will be on
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Fabian
TweetOfFabian
Byzantium no more: From "recuperatio imperii" to "Europexit".• Justinian's dream turn nightmare.• The destruction of Italy.• Constantinople's brutal abuses.• The west renounces Byzantium.Narrated by the c
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