Walking through Constantinople during its Peak in 540 AD.
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Constantinople was truly magnificent. One of the best aspects of this channel is attention to urban structure.
Yes, otherwise attention to urban structure is lost. I've still hard to believe how utterly stupid modern city planners are!
Yes but bored me
@@bioliv1 modern architecture is so boring and ugly. just square vuildings with cheap insides littered with fire extinguishers etc ruining the homey feel. feels like jail
It's belong to Muslims, Get over it kAfeeR
@@shayna.6928 huh
I live in Istanbul. I can see the European side from my balcony and it's awesome to look at it and imagine how it looked 1500 years ago like in your video.
The city is a mess right now it has not order , to sad
@@Jh0nJhon yes I know. But it is still great
@@billybussey İstanbul'un hangi ilçesinden ikamet ediyorsunuz
@@Jh0nJhonbecause it should belong to Greece
@@balkanbaroque Ne Küçük Yunanistana ait olmalı
I live in Istanbul in European side. How exciting it is to listen and see the things and relate it to the old structures, whatever of it have remained.
Avrupa yakasında hangi ilçede yasiyorsunuz
Imagine the greatness of a city which took 900 years after its zenith to exhaust.
I see a lot of inspiration for King’s landing, in Game of thrones, coming from Constantinople, from the city architecture to its layout. Although I don’t think anything would compare to Rome itself, the eastern capital had a charm of its own, something even Rome lacked. It must have been glorious. Congratulations for the video
The show filmed the King’s Landing scenes in the city Ragusa/Dubrovnik
Depends on what you call “Charm”. Its an Eastern version of Rome.
@@petekdemircioglu Constantinople certainly had all the classical beauty of Rome, however it had a greater intermingling with the eastern cultures, that provided an “eastern charm” which I was referring to. I think many great cities of ancient Near East had a singular beauty and charm special to them
Rome was a mess of a city. it had its magnificence but... to live in it must have been terrible. especially for one such as us. Constantinople was far more organized.
@@ragael1024 "Rome was a mess of a city. it had its magnificence but... to live in it must have been terrible." That's pretty much King's Landing though. In both the books and characters in the show the overwhelming smell of shit and death is mentioned several times. Edit: Although King's Landing is stated to have a population of roughly a million, Rome of course famously being the only pre-industrial European city to achieve such a population.
The most beautiful city of world. The Queen of Cities.
Loved taking a tour with you, thank you! I'd love to walk through Rome from the Campus Martius through Forum Romanum up the steps of the temple of J.O.M. like a general in a triumph
Thanks a lot :) My dream is to one day create 3D VR reconstructions of Rome and Constantinople in different ages, in Unreal Engine with excellent graphics, so that one can explore both cities in their primes, and even interact with people. Still a dream now, but I hope that through this channel in some form, I can make this real in a few years.
My two most favorite ancient cities-Rome and Constantinople!👍👍😀
Something fascinating that not many people know about Constantinople is that it probably hosted one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world for a while. According to some historians the statue of the Olympian Zeus was transferred from Ancient Olympia to Constantinople where it was eventually burned in the great fire at the palace of Lausus. Kind of insane if you think about it.
This man makes you feel a deep desaire to experience the greatness of Const.
Thank you so much for this gorgeous video! One thing... the resurgence around the year 1000 did last a long time. Longer than many empires, in fact. Later Byzantium is usually regarded as being very strong again at least from the reign of Basil I to the reign of Basil II- over 150 years. But the Empire of Basil II was essentially untouched 45 years after his death in 1070, making it over 200 years- longer than many empires last- and in my mind the late peak really began even earlier with Theophilus, for over 230 years from the end of Theophilus's reign. Anyway, thank you so much for the beautiful video, I agree that around 540- after the building of the Hagia Sophia and before the Justinian plague- must have been the absolute pinnacle of the city, at least as Constantinople and not Istanbul (which would have had a different flavor certainly), as the city as the capital of the entire eastern Mediterranean must have exceeded the later capital! (And I appreciate that architectural monuments are your specialty and not chronological history, don't think that I don't think you aren't doing a wonderful job... I'm sure specialists in chronological history could learn a lot about the monuments from you!) Thank you for this beautiful video! The classical cities were breathtakingly beautiful, including Constantinople! I love Byzantium and Constantinople, and I love this kind of history!
"Is tin poli" is in Greek which means "to the city " in English " Is tan bul" Turkish pronunciation and of course they don't know the meaning. I am Romios from Cost/nople the Turks call us Rum . Someone from the West Roman empire would be Romalí . People from the west Roman empire since the first Centuries could come as visitors. Everything was written in Greek all the cities the names of emperors, churches, Latin was forgotten after the forth century. The name Byzantine never existed before the fall of the city. Byzas was a small Greek Kingdom at the European side of bosporus straight. Long before the build of Constantinople. The same with the Ottoman empire witch the real name is Osman empire includes 35 different tribes who were running away from the Mongols of Genghis khan.
Oh, I would have loved to have seen Constantinople at its height. :) Thank you, for a delightful start to my day. :)
This is gradually becoming my new favorite KZhead channel
Hello good Sir, well reading this, is like music to my ears, thanks a lot, and I will try to make even better videos in the future :)
I personally walked through the land and south sea walls many times. All I can say that those walls massive man. Incredibly large scale and looks magnificent even today.
You present the city like you have lived there back at 540AD! Magnificent!
What a calming voice you have
There's some mistakes I noticed... the mechanical throne and singing tree did not exist yet in the 6th century, that was in the 10th, and before 1204 Constantinople was sacked a number of times although during Byzantine civil wars. But still very great video!
Hello Sir, thanks a lot for pointing that out, yes, mistakes are sometimes unavoidable when creating KZhead content, normally I correct these mistakes later, in updated videos. But you can be sure that mistakes will decrease, the more I learn about a give topic. Thanks for your comment.
I0th century exactly! During the Isaurian Dynasty if I remember correctly, and in the Throne room with stars and planets painted on the dome. The imperial flags with the double headed Eagle come much later with the last dynasty of the Paleologues. No were can I see the 4 horses looted in the 4th crusade and now in Venice. I was looking forward to them as to the Sacred Palace of the Roman Emperor, Autocrats, Basileus: the Equal of the Apostles :) Cheers.
That was absolutely fascinating! Thank you very much for the video 🤗
The Hellenic origins of the city and many of the populace never disappeared and in the case of Christianity and the new Christian Rome it intensified over the years. However, Greek always was the major language of the Church in the Eastern Roman Empire. Also, it might be mentioned that the most beautiful church was possibly Holy Apostles which does not exist today but St. Mark's in Venice is a close copy containing much looted gold & gems from Constantinople Thank you for an excellent video - really enjoyable to watch.
Thanks for this excellent info, really some excellent and intelligent comments here, awesome!
Was Greek or Latin the mother tongue of the majority of the population of Constantinople at this time?
@@akostarkanyi825 Army was mostly Latin-speaking for the next century, Church was mostly Greek-speaking always, however most people would have been bilingual with Greek gaining in importance year by year until it dominated all areas.
@@aalexander928 Thank you!
@@akostarkanyi825 You are most welcome. With all best wishes.
Many thanks for this marvellous video. Fascinating urban layout and design. Great work.
Enjoyed this Immensely! Felt as if i were walking the streets of this glorious imperial city! Who can comprehend a thousand years? What a place it must have been!Thank you so much for sharing your passion for this history with us. You bring life to a long gone era. Thx.
Amazing, the double glazing of the windows is incredible for the time of byzantine !!
Fantastic video with great maps and pictures. Thank you!
I've been to Istanbul it's still an impressive city
You're getting better and better, keep it up!
Thanks a lot friend of roman history, I really appreciate it :)
Love your channel, thank you for your work!
I simply adore your channel 🥰
Bravo! Great video.
Wonderful video. Thank you for creating it.
Fascinating! Thank you very much!
They even had fountains, vending machines and automated doors (just like any modern building in our days)
The very thought that such a magnificent city existed cannot fit my mind.
Wow, thank you so much sir for your insight and sharing. I'm obsessed almost with Byzantine history and this really fills in some blanks.
This was great, thank you!
Amazing. Thank you.
Thank you for the video, always looking forward to them. _Oh Constantinople...been a long time gone..._
Just stumbled to your channel and I'm impressed by the quality of this video. Great work! Love your pronunciation of the Latin names also.
Beautiful!
Great work!... gracias... cheers from Mexico!
I've never had any sense before of what Constantinople looked like and how it functioned as a city. Sort of miss not having to been able to walk its streets. Thank you.
That is because Western history concentrates on Old Rome and leaves out the elephant in the room, Eastern Christianity. Most of the Christian empire was destroyed by saracens, Christianity hung on by a thread in Britain and in the far Western Europe, yet that fact is not even taught in the West.
Another great video, you are genius and you bring amazing information to us. Congratulation.
Really great work on this video. Very cool!
amazing work
Great video thank you
Fascinating!
Video için çok teşekkürler emeğine sağlık. Şu güzel videonun altında bir Türk ve türkçe yorum görmemek ne kadar üzücü ve acı. Tarihimize ne kadar yabancıyız.
Go make kebab
My favorite ancient city by far and my favorite church, Hagia Sophia. Thank you for giving them the attention they deserve. If you ever want to do a special on Hagia Sophia, you will have my vote. I also liked your work on Starship. That would be also a good topic to explore.
cool video..thanks guyssss
Thanks a lot for watching this video Serdar! I am so glad that you liked it ;)
I always found it interesting how the Byzantines reused Pagan statuary for structural support, incorporating them into a revised Christian context. There are two large beautifully carved Medusa heads; one placed upside down, the other on its side, supporting two of the columns within the vast cistern in Constantinople. At a glance, you would imagine it as a practical solution for lengthening a shorter column. But I think in reality, it demonstrates in the Byzantine mind, the triumph over, and subjugation of the Pagan world. I doubt very much if a carved image of Christ, would have been used in the same way.
I believe that the huge columns from the gigantic temple of Zeus Heliopolitanus at Baalbek in Lebanon were transported for use in the Hagia Sophia?
I think that more likely it was a symbol of triumph over evil as symbolized by Medusa. Constantinople revered its classical heritage, and classical myth certainly would have sided with Christ over Medusa!
Look up the story of "saint George and the Dragon"? St. George was a Byzantine who would burn humans and their crops and steal their children to be indocrinated as slaves for the Holy Roman Empire (which is still your government today) and they would tell people it was a Dragon but if they convert to Christianity, then St. George would slay the Dragon Its one the largest lies in Human History and its still going. They display it on the Flag of UK and the Russian Coat of Arms to name a few. And all they did was kill people to force the religion and govern over people as slaves The Royals are all Nazis
Awesome video
Wonderful video💯👏😯
Wonderful!
I liked the detail given in this video. One thing not brought out is that the old Roman capital in Italy was a ghost town with weeds growing in the streets and the fact that Constantinople was multiples greater than the old Rome. People that visited Constantinople at its heyday were in shock at how magnificent it was.
because people who were around for Constantinople didn’t see Rome’s peak, which ended with Marcus Aurelias’s death
@@johnnyboy3410 I was speaking of the peak of both.
As a trained archaeologist, I was completely enchanted by this video. Over fifty years ago I was introduced to the wonders of archaeology, when my aunt, as a welcome gift , gave a little guidebook to ancient Rome made up of colour postcards of modern Rome, with the neatest acetate overlays showing ancient Rome in all its reconstructed glories; simply by aligning the plastic images with the coloured modern reality, you could clearly make out the extent of the destruction, but more importantly, reconstructed the true magnificence of ancient Rome! I have always been enchanted by ancient Constantinople(Russian grandfather was born in Buyuk Dere, a distant suburb on the Bosphorus). I had the great privilege of visiting Istanbul for two weeks. As an Orthodox Christian, I organized my stay around visiting everyone of the many ancient Churches of Contantinople. The most remembered was my first visit to the Aya Sofya Mosque, during which I experience the first of many transformative experiences of my Orthodox faith,, when I realized that even the marble floor had been laid out with strictest respect for every social, political and spiritual requirements to focus the full atention on the Emperor, slightly to one side of the main altar and his Empress, sitting far away in the first gallery, with all the other women and infidels stood with a perfect view over all the liturgical action going on at their feet far below.. What's more, even many of the infidels felt compelled to share their mark ,'ERIK was here" grafitti scarred all over the exquisite marble railing of the second balcony, in every script in the known world - runic, coptic, egyptian demotic, greek demotic, islamic demoticc urdu script, ancient latin and modern italian demotic scripts, among others, the truest manifestation of the magnificence of ancient Constantiople! Thankk you, Majoranus, for making my dreams come true!
Very sweet story. I loved too the acetate overlays. Yes the Emperor was Isoapostolon: equal to the Apostles. Not only in divine liturgies, but also in court ceremonies the Imperial court was supposed to reflect on earth celestial harmony. They did very complex formal choreographies to that purpose. Have you read Constantine Porphyrogenitus X century book "De Cerimonies"? A must! Before the Great Schism of 1054 over the "Filioque" and the absolute and not collegial power of the Bishop of Rome just a Primus inter Pares, there was one Catholic (Universal) Church. Now the Orthodox is still Catholic but calls it self Orthodox do differentiate from the Catholic (Latin) Church and to stress their Orthodoxy as opposed to the Heterodox or Heretical believes of the Church of Rome. Both Churches accept as Ecumenical the first 7 councils.The Orthodox stop at those, the Catholics held many, many, others and lastly the disastrous Vatican II Both recognise many Church Doctors and Fathers in common. The Orthodox don't like the scholastics like Thomas Aquinas who tried to prove philosophically the existence of God. A useless pursuit in their eyes. However before those last 2 Councils the differences could be solved as it had been done at the Council of Florence. The reciprocal excommunication have been revoked by Pope Paul VI and the Patriarch of Constantinople in the 60s but I fear the rift will never again be healed because us Catholics, instead of talking to our closest brothers, at least until Vatican I and II, we have gone too far chasing the Protestants, and even the Evangelicals! that even Martin Luther would excommunicate! Such a terrible mistake! So sad. I wish you a happy Easter Xristos Anexi
Wow all those beliefs of yours have you ever studied anthropology? christianity is backwards satanic lies We still live in the Holy Roman Empire and its all a religious belief
A.S. can’t be called a mosque.
There's an anime movie called A Wizard of Earthsea, it's based on a book series by Ursula K Le Guin. In the beginning of the film the main characters are introduced in a magnificent capital city, very much like Constantinople in the time of Justinian the 1st. Even the emperor and his court are attired in Byzantine imperial garb. If you ever get a chance, check it out. Great video, by the way...I'm a lifelong( 56 years old) devotee of Roman/Byzantine culture and I just found your channel and subscribed this very morning. Cheers!
The Greeks had a chance to take back Constantinople in 1921 during the Greek-Turkish War but they overextended themselves trying to take back historical "Byzantine Rome" in western Turkey. If the Greeks had conquered Constantinople, the King of Greece would be declared Roman Emperor Constantine XII.
Thank God, that didn’t happen
They had no real Chance as Britain, Italy and France didn’t want to give them Constantinople. They were basically nothing but a unimportant city state at the time. Also, Atatürk happened thank god.
Late Antiquity is a fascinating period, I’m so glad I found your channel! I would love a video on the water-delivery systems to these cities. I think both old Rome and new Rome/Constantinople have fairly well-understood aqueduct and/or reservoir systems, but what about Alexandria? They must have used the Nile for supply, but do we know if there were any attempts at treatment, or a city-wide water distribution system? I know it had large lakes and water features.
Thanks a lot for your kind words and nice topic suggestions Kimberly :) I will certainly look into the water-delivery system in Alexandria!
Thank you so much for doing the right thing. Thank you for stressing that this city was very culturally Roman.
Ave Maioranus, novus suscriptor! Truly impressed with your narrative of the capital of the first Christian Empire, cheers!!
Cool vid!
Excellent video, dude. If u continue the show I'll sign this channel up, no doubt. And please, if you could produce something about Cartago, its rivalry with Rome and, perhaps, its trends with the entire World and Tarshish Land that would be great. Obviously, it's only an idea. Thanx for all.
Impressive video
nice recontruction interior hagia sophia. you can see the sanctuary and the templon. The iconostasis is a development that was not completed until the 15th century. The Rood Screen is the Western equivalent. It was sometimes filled in between the columns. Take a look at hagia Sophia without all the later junk buildings and minarets.
First it is now mosque second from scientific poşnt of view architect sinan built those (so called junk) minrets to strengten the build and prevents it from collapsing. You can also also sit on top of those minarets
@@leobelleobel2007 Yes its a mosque now which is the best and cleanest place for worshiping God ; this is much more valuble than museum with giftshop and bar. To me civilization is not about huge building and blocks of stones . Its something spiritual , with human social attitudes of good manners , justice and comprehensive way of life.
Constantinople is an unforgettable Capital!!!
Omg. It must have been so beautiful.
Gloria eterna all'Impero Bizantino 👑👑👑✝️✝️✝️
I been there. It's nice.
This brought back so many fond memories when I visited this city in 2014. Istanbul is still a beautiful city but sadly forgotten by Westerners. I highly recommend visiting this city and getting lost in rich history.
I disagree with the “Forgotten by westerners” notion, due to many tourist visiting Turkey hailing from Europe.
@@muhammadzariff7075 Forgotten in the sense that Westerners do not consider Istanbul an exotic Western city like London, Paris or Rome even though Constantinople wass as much as a Western city as Rome. Westerners do visit Istanbul but as an exotic Asian city. That's what I meant. I didn't mean to say that Istanbul is not popular but that it is not considered a Western city. :)
@@PrasenjeetKumarAuthor Cause it has a wrong name currently
I believe its peak lasted until 1204 AD, great video though.
It would have been decadent but still keeping the old glory. After the fourth crusade however it would have been a ruin, a collection of villages inside very large walls
I agree, it had its ups and downs. It did take a severe beating from the Justinianic plague and subsequent sieges, but seemed to recover from the late 8th century onwards and remained wealthy and well populated for the most part until the Crusaders came a knocking.
Thanks. Well, the definition of peak is the point here. Population-wise, at least according to Perkins and C.Mango, Constantinople never again reached the population of 540 AD. But then again this is of course only based on not perfect evidence, so there certainly is room for error.
From a point of view of physical structures such as buildings and monuments, I believe you are right in that its peak lasted until the Fourth Crusade when they sacked and took over the city.
The magnificence of old Constantinople would be on a level with Tokyo and New York city. It would have overwhelmed the senses. To see how it look like it does today hurts.
I do agree, the city is a mess right now , the turks really didn't preserve the Glory of the city
Lately pretty much historical lstanbul (Constantinapole) videos are on the scene.😊 A part of a secret goal of some world powers?
Let's hope
What amazes me is that despite of all those disasters,the ERE still lasted for a 1000 years until 1453.
Some scholars argue that one of the reasons was their impressive bureaucracy. They had Ministries of foreign affairs, finances and so on. A system based on merit and not on birth. Fun hypothesis: the Roman Empire actually fell on November 1989. After the fall of Constantinople the Sultan gave him self the title of Kaisri Rum (Emperor of the Romans) In the West Zoe Paleologina niece of the last Emperor was given as bride to Ivan Granduke of Moscow who's descendants started calling themselves Czars (Caesars) and called Moscow 3rd. Rome. The Ottoman Empire fell in 1923 The Czarist Empire fell in 1917 but it was followed by the Soviet Empire and its Autocrats. And the USSR fell with the fall of the wall of Berlin. Therefore the Roman Empire lasted with some, but not much transformation, for more than an other 500 years. :)
@@ODC88888 While the Ottomans did style the Sultan as Roman Caesar, they did not consider their state the Roman Empire. In my opinion, it is justified to say that the Roman Empire truly fell in 1453 AD.
@@user-rq2ly4bf1w Well they actually, with this title, claimed possession of all the EUCUMENE (Roman world) Especially the Western part, the Eastern they already had control over. They did fight with the Holy Roman Emperor for such right: many letters about who was the real successor. Mine was meant though to be an absurd argument as published for amusement by my friend that teaches Byzantine (we all hate this modern name) History at University. I hope you found it fun.
@@ODC88888 Interesting take. And yes we do loathe the name "Byzantine". Thankfully a lot of folks are refusing to use it any longer.
@@user-rq2ly4bf1w I think there was a sort of Traslatio Imperii to Moscow Orthodox, 3rd Rome, ruled by an Autocrator Cesar with a lot of the same imperial iconography and bureaucracy and it's Cesaropapism. The Holy Synod practically became a State Ministry. But my comment of the Empire ending in 1989 is a true story, but meant for amusement,: an article written by Silvia Ronchey a Professor of ...Byzantine... History at Rome University. She also wrote a book on pore Hypatia. And a lot of academic books. One I liked a lot because I am a nerd, was about B (I don't want to use that word) titles and their inflation. :))) Sebastos, Hyper Sebastos, ProtohyperSebastos Protohypersebastos Hypertation :))) It's a pity I can only glance at the Greek and enjoy some words or short sentences. Unfortunately in Italy Greek is taught with such pedantry that is like death by one thousand cuts and when one is 14 one rebels. Eleutheria! Xaire Vale Ciao
People at that time didn't pronounce Augustaion the way you pronounce it , they pronounce it like in modern Greek, "Avgusteon".
Where I live, Big Island of Hawaii, the population density is ~ 19.2 people/square kilometer. Big difference!
Truly magnificent ------I traveled to another great city ---Ephesus -----it is not in old ancient Constantinople but on the coast of modern day Turkey...The ruins are just as grand as when the purely marble city of Gold was standing in 540 A.D -----The Library of Ephesus is complete , except for it's hollowed interior and it would be at its whole , if not by Earthquakes which covered throughout the so-called dark ages around 1000. !
It was great, thank you! I think that the time traveler should have visited the city five years earlier, in 535 AD, as 536 AD is seen by some historians as "the worst year in history" (because of extremely bad weather and famines with that).
Great video! Thanks! Could you make some vídeos last years of Román Empiere in Hispania,Gaul,Britannia,and other provinces in the west Roman Empire,and then in the east, Greece,Egypt,Siria,Middle East,etc...
Hello Sir and thanks. Of course, I can tell you, I have already so many topics on the "To do" list, it's crazy. I will definitely look at different parts of the empire, and then we can analyze how it must have been there in the dying years of the Imperium, what one would have seen.
Would love to see all this soon ✌again under the sign of the Roman Dubble Eagel
It's sad that the height of the Eastern Roman Empire was so early on. Basically for 1000 years the Empire was in decline after its height
it peaked three more times, once under Basil II, again under the Komnenos dynasty and once more during the Palaiologan renaissance.
Due to the eruption Krakatoa in 535/536, the whole world was bleak for a decade (basically like a nuclear winter). The skies would have been reddish. Summers were colder. Food harvests were meager. etc.
The Great City, to paraphrase the Vikings.
What I wouldn't give to visit the city at its peak.. Might go back to it this summer to explore it again
I actually did go back
I would be curious about what the average house in Constantinople looked like and how did they vary from roman town houses?
They varied from Roman town houses because they were modeled after the Hellenistic/Greek houses!
That's the sort of thing that the ancients considered unimportant or at least not worthy of documenting in sources that still exist .
It's mosque now, you can find in another country yes No More KAfeeR Christian in Agya Sofia 😇🙏🏻
@@shayna.6928 Your racism is noted .
@@vasp99 Don’t mind her, she’s an extremist Turk.
impressive
There are quite a few good books showing reconstructions of ancient Rome and how things looked back then. Are there any similar books dealing with Constantinople?
It would be interesting to know the source of some of the background images, such as the black and white photos
Ah Constantinople. I have been there 2 times this past year. Everything that i saw made me think "what if" . For example we know that beneath the Sultanahmet mosque and surroundings was the Great Palace. Just wondering about the vaults, the chambers, the mosaics, the furniture, the decorations makes you have a big "what if" in mind. We never got to see the Nea Ekklesia cause it was demolished but it was the second biggest church and it could be marvelous. Or the Church of the Holy Apostles. A visit in the Archeological Museum there and seeing the tombs of the emperors makes you wonder how that church could ve looked like. And lets not talk about other countless monuments that that city was full of but now are just ruins, ghosts or converted buildings. What would ve happened if Constantinople was conquered from an other Christian State? A powerful one like the Bulgars or the Serbians or the Russians.. Maybe we could ve had more things left from the City.. If we reverse.. would we have the same amount of ancient Rome now if Rome was conquered by Arabs or Turks?
Better yet, what if Turks had converted to Christianity?
@D K it did destroy the image of the city
Dont think they could keep it for long. Its too diverse for them. Their cultures arent fluid and cannot adapt to rule over diverse people. There would be terror and dictatorship, than people would rise up and theyd ran back to their Bulgaria. Thats why its called “b***h Constantinopolis”. Everyone wanted it, tried it, only meritocracy could keep it.
@D K Muslims don’t care about Art in fact it is taboo to paint or sculpt it is such a backward ideology. However nobody looks at Turks that are citizens in Europe as others but yes Turkey is kinda of others especially with muslim fundamentalists in charge
@D K my friend there are many reasons we see you as different despite your atheism, your love for democracy and your opposition to the current ruler of the country. The main reason is your origin. You are a Turk as you said. In our subconscious mind turks are identified as the EVIL. Why ? Well I'm not here to lecture you the numerous historical reasons that all South European, Middle East and North Africas populations hate the word "Turk". You can dive and search for yourself. No matter the good education you might have, no matter if you became a non religious person, no matter if you love democracy and you hate tayipp erdo's mindset, you are claiming yourself "Turk". Just by this, everybody is looking you as "other" and it has to do with engraving the image of the "Turks" in our brains over the centuries by history. You, me, or anyone else, can do nothing to change the collective memory in the brains of millions of people. Solution: if you really want to be looked as a modern, secular, liberal, person, someone to be worthy to be friends and trust stop identifying yourself with this bad word: "Turk". I'm feeling very sorry but this is how I am thinking and feeling about the Turks.
Where can I get one of those antique time machines? :)
Very good job but you forgot to saw us the palaces!
Take on Alexandria next!
A pity you did not also went through the magnificent Great Palace area. But the clip was very good.
I was amazed when i first read about medieval Constantinople. I really didn't expect I had to draw, stereotypically labelled, classical buildings. It's a shame that we think of Byzantium as a backwards civilization.
It was by far the most advanced civilization of the time.
@Constantine VII Your dogmatism blinds you. I used BYZANTIUM which is historically and geographically accurate and used by many chrinographers. Still, if you delved into the literature of that era you would also find the word Byzantine(Βυζαντιακός) in texts many times. So please do some research first.
@@byzantinetales your wrong it was wasn't used for the empire just used for Constantinople as it was called Byzantium before the roman empire
@@DCCrisisclips I didn't tell anywhere that I used Byzantium to describe the empire as a whole . I answered to the allegation that I used the word Byzantium which according to some is wrong to be used because it supposedly didn't exist back then.
this is so interesting do it for other cities
My second viewing and well worth it. Your Latin and Ancient Greek pronunciation is far, far superior to that of native English speakers, even those who have studied classics, but who don’t even bother to try. It’s not even difficult to learn in a single afternoon! Watching most videos and documentaries about Rome is anus, anus, anus in every name, over and over again (with its English pronunciation, unfortunately). Your English pronunciation is so much better, too! It’s a true pleasure to listen to you!
Hello Kimberly, thanks a lot, I really appreciate your kind words :) I try to pronounce everything to the best of my abilities and practice, so I am of course very glad to hear that the practice seems to be appreciated :) All the best to you and bene vale !
Native English speakers are particularly bad at pronouncing foreign words. I think that it is because English spelling is so confusing that they do not have a clue when it comes to foreign words. One major error is to pronounce vowels as they name of the vowel instead of its sound. North Americans are particularly bad at this. For words like "Iraq" they pronounce it as the name of the letter "I" followed by "raq". When I was on holiday in La Palma, a Canadian woman said that she was going to "The Azores" and "Azores" was pronounced as the name for the letter "A" followed by "zores" and it really grated. To compound the mispronunciation, they really emphasise it. Another problem is that English spelling for foreign names tend to come from French and before that Italian and those languages have their own peculiarities like the "h" being silent. Take the name "Aleppo", in Arabic it is pronounced something like "Halab", probably somebody who spoke a romance language put an "o" on the end, replaced the "b" by a "p", and replaced an "a" by an "e" so it became "Halepo" and it sounded like "Aleppo". Another problem is sheer stupidity. Take the name "Russia", the Russians pronounce it something like "Rus-see-a" which is close to how it is spelt in English. You have one generation of teachers passing these mistakes onto the next generation.
Pagan temples were used as treasuries most often and when paganism came to be forbidden as a religion, well, these temples went on serving the same purpose as profane, utilitarian, commercial buildings, that is to say as private banks or depositories, hence the greek temple's shape of so many modern banks. They didn't fall into ruins though most probably their most precious ornaments were sold to adorn churches or palaces.
Paganism wasn’t forbidden though But government temples would have been closed
I must say that I find the old Magnaura as shown in the (probably fairly hypothetical) reconstruction more aesthetically pleasing than the later building. It somehow looks more sophisticated and less 'severe' than its successor.
Constantinople seems like a fantasy place, I can’t believe how advanced the Romans were at this point in terms of general organization, city design and architecture
Does anyone know which BBC show the footage at the beginning is from, showing the city at a distance?
Hello, yes, this is from the BBC documentary "Heroes and Villains: Attila"
Here I come, Constantinople.
Ancient Rome, the city, is so well known. There is even a model of it, and computer simulation videos of walking through it. But, Constantinople is not so well known. It would also be good if there was a model of it, and those videos.