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[SunkenCiv]

defending byzantium site:freerepublic.com

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[Alex Murphy]

Hagia Sophia / Byzantium ping to read later

[Yardstick]

...its final defeat at the hands of the Ottomans in 1453

Constantinople fell in 1453 and Columbus sailed for America in 1492. That's only 39 years between the trailing edge of the Roman Empire and the leading edge of the American era. I usually think of Rome and America as being totally separated by a huge gulf of history but they actually came pretty close to overlapping.

[nkycincinnatikid]

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[Billthedrill]

It's Istanbul, not Constantinople...

(Well, somebody had to post it...)

[Skooz]

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[Cincinna]

BYZANTINE ICON ST GEORGE & THE DRAGON

[keats5]

I read a great book, entitled, “Byzantium,” by Stephen Lawhead. If you enjoy historical fiction, I would recommend it.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

If it wasn’t for the Later Roman (or Byzantine) Empire, it is a virtual certainty that Europe would have been absorbed into Islam. It took 400 years from the Arab invasion of the Holy land uintil the Muslims first pushed the Byzantines back into Asia Minor, and 300 more years until they first entered Eastern Europe. The final extinction of the Empire took another 150 years. If Islam had arrived in the Balkans at the same time as the Moors were entering France from Spain, Europe would have died before Charlemagne.