I want Constantinople back ...
Posted on 06/10/2020 5:26:10 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Yesterday a statue of the last Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, often called the Eastern Roman Empire, was unveiled in Athens.
In the square of the Holy Metropolis Church of Piraeus (Athens), a statue of Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos, was unveiled.
Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos is not only remembered for being the last Byzantine Emperor who put up a brave last stand against the Ottomans, but also for his last speech to his officers and allies before the Fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453 by Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II.
Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Christendom during the Middle Ages, the seat of the Byzantine emperor and the centre of a predominately Christian empire, steeped in Greek cultural and artistic influences, yet founded and maintained by a Roman legal and administrative system. Despite the amalgamation of Greek and Roman influences, its language and culture was Greek.
Although the Turkish state presents the Fall of Constantinople as an epic achievement, their narrative often omits that the Byzantine Empire was in a state of decline since the 1204 Catholic Fourth Crusade that destroyed the city. Nor does the narrative mention that it took 53 days for the Ottoman army of 100,000 to defeat the 10,000 Byzantine defenders.
When Constantinople’s walls were finally breached, Constantine XI knew there would be no mercy, as seen by the three day of mass murder, rape and pillage the Ottoman’s committed after the capture of the city. However, the last emperor of the more than 1,000 year old empire did not flee with the Genoese generals and many civilians to Italy, he instead died fighting in the streets of Constantinople – but not before giving one last epic speech, which can be read here.
Today, Emperor Constantine XI is considered a national hero in Greece.
I want Constantinople back ...
So, Take me back to Constantinople
No, you can’t go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks
Just a point “ last Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, often called the Eastern Roman Empire,”
He actually was the last Emperor of the Roman Empire.
Only in the 18th and 19th century did westerners start to use the pejorative “Byzantine empire” - trying to say that the (the westerners) were the true and sole inheritors of Rome
Hope he wasn’t a slave owner, or that statue will be coming right down.
They only had white slaves, the slavs.
I want my Byzantine reparations.
Maybe Pope Frank give reparations for the 4th Crusade. Why not? It’s all the rage.
I would be pleased if our masters would just let our people go. Now.
“Hope he wasn’t a slave owner, or that statue will be coming right down.”
Pronto!
I would be pleased if our masters would just let our people go. Now.
Byzantium will be back, and Constantinople as well. Hagia Sophia will once again hear a Christian Orthodox Mass. The tide of history will sweep Islam out of Europe. It may well take a century but it will happen. History has not stopped.
Hagia Sophia, currently a museum, is going to be converted to a mosque by the Turks in June ... just sayin ...
*ping*
Yes, we have a long road to hoe. Starting with our own country. Archbishop Vigano has it right.
. https://www.inverse.com/article/48037-easter-island-head-collapse-theory
Thanks Sawdring, will make a nice topic. Oops, already has:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2139616/posts
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