Thanks george76.
Posted on 12/27/2020 4:21:39 PM PST by george76
The Greeks who represent the last vestiges of Christian Byzantium and the Roman Empire are heading towards their final extinction in Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, with their numbers dwindling to a mere handful under his Islamist government.
What is now Turkey only began to be colonised in by the Turkic peoples in earnest from around 1071, after their Seljuk ancestors had arrived from Central Asia and vanquished the Greek-speaking Christian ruler Romanos IV Diogenes’s forces at the Battle of Manzikert.
The last vestiges of the Byzantine state where finally snuffed out with the brutal conquest of Constantinople, widely regarded as the greatest Christian city in the world, in 1453, or arguably with the fall of the citadel of Salmeniko Castle in modern-day Greece in 1461, following a brave but doomed resistance by its commander, Konstantinos Graitzas Palaiologos.
Despite widespread massacres and enslavement during the Turkish conquests, however, the region’s Greeks survived and were allowed something of a cultural life, albeit as second-class citizens, for centuries — not least because they served as cash cows for their Muslim rulers through the imposition of the jizya tax.
But Greeks in Istanbul, as Constantinople is now called, have now tumbled from 200,000 as recently as 1914 to, officially, a mere 3,000 — and a Times correspondent who visited the city to interview some of the survivors, known as the Rum, reports that the true figure may be nearer to just one thousand.
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in 1821, when many of the city’s Greeks were massacred and the Patriarch of Constantinople hanged from the gate of his cathedral, or in 1955, when the security services organised violent pogroms against them in what POLITICO dubbed a “Turkish Kristallnacht”.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
"sovereign nations" and paying no tax and all the other crap....
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
Thanks for posting. History/education/civilization BUMP!
Byzantium, forever be ever.
...while here in the US we are so beholding to indians that were scattered separate stone age tribes...
casinos too : )
“The mosques are our barracks, the minarets our bayonets, the faithful our soldiers” - R. E.
What a wonderful people and religion /s
HOORAY Jack Montgomery!
This is why I insist on Muslims paying reparations to me since they enslaved my Slavic (note origin of the word “slave”) ancestors.
MFLR.
Gee. In other places with other people, this kind of thing would be called genocide....
I want Constantinople back.
I read years ago that due to the fall of Rome, the fall of Constantinople, that MOSCOW is now the “Third Rome”.
Thanks george76.
I want Byzantium back.
If I remember this right it’s because a Grand Duke of Muscovy married a Byzantine princess. I don’t remember her dynastic family name.
If I remember this right it’s because a Grand Duke of Muscovy married a Byzantine princess. I don’t remember her dynastic family name.
Palaiologos Dynasty
I thought it was but wasn’t sure! Thanks!
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