#Constantinople

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

Dark World

raahgeerr

[THREAD]Conquest of Constantinople -The conquest of Constantinople is one of the most significant events in the Islamic history which every Muslim should know. It should feature in top 5 all

Gbénró Adégbolá ن

GbenroAdegbola

Is the Pope of Rome the most senior Christian hierarch? Yes; and No!This in itself is not really an important question but answering it reveals certain interesting historical facts. Let’s

Andrew Youssef|Ανδριας Ιοσηφ

AndrewNAYoussef

Severus of Antioch condemned Chalcedon and considered Chalcedonianism a heresy. It is worth noting that when he did, Constantinople III has not been convened yet. Many Chalcedonians were finding difficulty

Zoran Kusovac

zkusovac

THREAD #Serbian #Orthodox #Church bishops start Conclave (#Sabor-Holy Assembly in #SPC parlance) to elect new #Patriarch, 3 months after previous died of #Covid. Election much more about politics than religion,

mirage🌹

PsyOpValkyrie

> Mehmet conquered Constantinople.> He wanted Ayasofya to be a mosque.> It was owned by emperor Justinian.> He purchased Ayasofya with his own wealth.> Handed over Ayasofya to Muslim waqf.>

Fidato

tequieremos

When Sultan Mehmet conquered Constantinople in 1453, it was a practice for conquering army of that time to carry out an unrestricted pillage for 3 days and places of worship

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

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

Pelagia

Ljiljana1972

While the B sides of the Western phil canon wait here is a thread on The Pantokrator Xenon, the Byz hospital that you cannot hear a lot about at the

Glenn Butner

glennbutner

@brandon_d_smith just sent me screen shots of the two pages where Grudem engages my anti-EFS arguments in his new ST. It's all pretty absurd, but let me reply with a

Edward C. Yong ن

infernoxv

not the Chora church, with the finest surviving Byzantine mosaics and frescoes in Constantinople! oh my heart. https://ahvalnews.com/chora/turkey-re-converts-istanbuls-chora-church-museum-mosque this is even more upsetting for me, as the Ch

InfoWarrior-Reforged

IWarriorTheOne

Thread!#Turkish Hypocrisy, art of genocide & demographic change .How an occupation force now "has the right" to ask and speaking about legal rights, international law & make demands.How #Turkey destroyed

Ankit Madhwani

AnkitMadX

Russia geopolitics, key features:1) largest land mass country. 2x of usa and 5x of india. Russia is spread over Europe and Asia.. Ural mountain ranges separate it.2) Popln only 14.4

Gbénró Adégbolá ن

GbenroAdegbola

The Hagia Sophia has been in the news lately. What is Hagia Sophia and why is it significant? Hagia Sophia (Greek), known in Turkish as Ayasofya, in Latin as Sancta

A Dose Of Thalezine

SkullAndMusket

1. This is fascinatingly stupid - and yet simultaneously very dangerous. I will attempt to explain in a thread.Ancestral lands is something of an emotional thing to begin with. Because

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