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An earlier battle in the clash of civilizations - May 29, 1453: the fall of Constantinople.
VA Viper ^ | 05/29/2017 | Harpygoddess

Posted on 05/29/2017 6:27:34 AM PDT by harpygoddess

Today is the anniversary of the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to an Ottoman army under the 21-year-old Sultan Mehmet II after a siege of seven weeks. The last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Paliailogos, died in the final defense of the city, and the ensuing orgy of pillage and massacre brought the eastern Roman empire to a decisive end.

Founded as Byzantium in the 7th century B.C. by Greek colonists from Megara, Constantinople (now Istanbul) sits at the junction of the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus, which leads to the Black Sea, about 15 miles to the northeast. This strategic location led to its becoming an ancient entrepot for trade between the east and west, and in A.D. 330, the Roman emperor Constantine made it the capital of his eastern empire, which - as the Byzantine Empire - outlasted the fall of Rome itself by nearly 1,000 years. After the sack of the city by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Byzantine Empire never regained its former glory, and by the time of its final defeat, it had been whittled down by the Ottoman Turks to little more than the capital itself and a small hinterland.

The loss of Constantinople was a major shock to Christendom and particularly to the Greek and Russian Orthodox communities, for whom the city had been their spiritual nexus. During its subsequent "golden age" and 19th-century decline, Constantinople remained the capital of the Ottoman Empire until the end of World War I, when what was left of the old Ottoman territories became today's Republic of Turkey with a new capital at Ankara

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: christendom; clashofcivilizations; history; muslimworld; war; worldhistory
An eyewitness account of the rape and plunder:

"People frightened by the shouting ran out of their houses and were cut down by the sword before they knew what was happening. And some were massacred in their houses where they tried to hide, and some in churches where they sought refuge... they were intent on pillage and roamed through the town stealing, disrobing, pillaging, killing, raping, taking captive men, women, children, old men, young men, monks, priests, people of all sorts and conditions . . . There were virgins who awoke from troubled sleep to find those brigands standing over them with bloody hands and faces full of abject fury. This medley of all nations, these frantic brutes stormed into their houses, dragged them, tore them, forced them, dishonored them, raped them at the cross-roads and made them submit to the most terrible outrages."

1 posted on 05/29/2017 6:27:34 AM PDT by harpygoddess
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To: harpygoddess

This only... Islam is what it is....


2 posted on 05/29/2017 6:31:48 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: Jumper
Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.
Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos
3 posted on 05/29/2017 6:43:00 AM PDT by IWontSubmit (2)
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To: harpygoddess
It was this cataclysmic event that led to the extraordinary popularity of the song "L'Homme Arme".

The song is a call to arms. It became synonymous with the 15th century fight against Islamic evil. It's martial words clang like iron down through history and may resonate with us today.

A good audio version can be found here:

In english the words mean:

The armed man should be feared.

Everywhere it has been proclaimed

That each man shall arm himself

With a coat of iron mail.

The armed man should be feared.

This is of course good advice for any man - arm yourself! - but there's another dimension to it.

Many identified the 'armed man' of the song as St Michael the Archangel. Also the martial tune was to be used as the basis for hundreds of pieces of liturgical music. The battle for Europe was eventually to be won at Lepanto.


Anyway: a few centuries have passed since Constantinople fell, and what has changed? Another piece of an internally rotted Europe seems about to collapse to Islam. We need another Lepanto.

We can physically beat Islam, but our culture has been thrown into confusion by our moral evil. Twenty-two young people killed in Manchester is monstrous - but it is still barely a blip compared with the 500+ young lives we sacrifice to Moloch every day, just in the UK.

✠ Jesus Christ; have mercy on us.✠

✠May God lead us to repentance. May Islam be broken, and its captives flee from it, as they would flee from a burning building.✠

St Michael, by the Power of God, thrust down to hell Satan and all the evil spirits that roam the world to the ruin of souls.

4 posted on 05/29/2017 7:04:59 AM PDT by agere_contra (Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI)
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And now, Erdogan the Islamist intends to rebuild the “great” (evil) Ottoman empire with himself as the Sultan.

He already has the power and the evil will in Turkey to move that direction. And he truly believes it is the will of (his) God that he rule the world.

Here we are. Make no mistake about it. Look at what he has already done to his own people and the Kurds. His excuse? The attempted coup?

Never forget who the enemy we face really is. His deeds reveal who he serves.


5 posted on 05/29/2017 7:08:13 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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Κωνσταντινούπολη; (Konstantinouboli; Constantinople) Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra (with Tetos Dimitriadis)

Constintanople--Paul Whiteman & His Orcheswtra

6 posted on 05/29/2017 7:11:59 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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See also the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. The Byzantines basically lost control of Anatolia (Turkey) and the Seljuq Turks became dominant in the Levant. As a result, pilgrimmage routes to the Holly Land became much less open to Christians.

This is why the Pope called for a Crusade in 1095.

Christianity has always been on the defensive end of things. But the Social Justice Warriors will never believe that.


7 posted on 05/29/2017 7:47:25 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: harpygoddess

Next year in Constantinople.


8 posted on 05/29/2017 7:56:24 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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April 12, 1204, Christian soldiers and Knights of the 4th Crusade, sack Constantinople for three days


9 posted on 05/29/2017 8:22:03 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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” they were intent on pillage and roamed through the town stealing, disrobing, pillaging, killing, raping, taking captive men, women, children, old men, young men, monks, priests, people of all sorts and conditions . . . There were virgins who awoke from troubled sleep to find those brigands standing over them with bloody hands and faces full of abject fury. This medley of all nations, these frantic brutes stormed into their houses, dragged them, tore them, forced them, dishonored them, raped them at the cross-roads and made them submit to the most terrible outrages.”

For the life of me, I just have trouble understanding why Israel will not negotiate with them. LOL.


10 posted on 05/29/2017 8:36:34 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: agere_contra

No one, absolutely NO onw will stand up to this evil. Men, husbands, fathers, brothers, sons will cower as they are made to watch the violent rape of their wives, daughters, sisters and mothers. Then those cowardly men will be viciously beheaded after being mutilated and tortured. Muslims will often cut off captive male’s testicles and shove them down the victims throat. But dont worry, these MALES have no testicles. And this will happen here, sooner than you think.


11 posted on 05/29/2017 8:49:56 AM PDT by ghostkatz (catslivesmatter....all 9 of them)
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To: agere_contra

Once again it will be Eastern Europe that defends western civilization.


12 posted on 05/29/2017 9:48:38 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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The final fall of the remnants of the Roman Empire.


13 posted on 05/29/2017 10:59:36 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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Interesting related post at NRO:

Florida Museum Celebrates the Loss of Hagia Sophia

The plaque that caught my eye praises the Ottoman Empire for having turned the Hagia Sophia church into a mosque. Its words: In addition to their renowned patronage of architecture, which yielded the conversion of the Church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a congregational mosque, Ottoman sultans and elites supported flourishing textile and ceramics industries.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/448067/hagia-sophia-mosque-cummer-exhibit-florida


14 posted on 05/30/2017 3:52:25 AM PDT by harpygoddess (VA Viper)
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To: harpygoddess

Bookmark


15 posted on 05/30/2017 4:02:43 AM PDT by kalee
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