The Sea Walls of Constantinople
Large parts of the Sea Walls of Constantinople can still be seen. Walking them allows you to see parts of the Great Palace, abandoned churches and Ottoman sea pavilions.
This video is part of a series - 'The History of Byzantium goes to Istanbul.' In 2018 the listeners of the podcast funded a Kickstarter to send me to Istanbul. I documented many of the surviving Byzantine sites and have made videos about them.
I am now able to offer tours to Istanbul (and beyond) for listeners of the podcast. Email me if you'd like to know more (thehistoryofbyzantium at gmail.com).
Video edited by / suhlefilm
For more information about Byzantine Constantinople visit www.thebyzantinelegacy.com/. It's a fantastic website providing breakdowns of the Byzantine buildings that can still be seen today and there you'll find most of the still images and sketches used in these videos.
'The History of Byzantium' is a podcast telling the story of the Roman Empire from 476 AD to 1453. The podcast home page is here thehistoryofbyzantium.com/ and you can support the show at / historyofbyzantium
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5:16. That was an Oscar-worthy acting performance there 😊
i walked along these seawalls on a freezing cold janurary day in 2022, i remember it lightly snowed. I find it beautiful that the condition of the walls vary's, so you get a feel for their age and what it could have looked like in its hay day with restored areas. much like the land walls.
05:20 big budget reenactment XD love it! Will be in Istanbul this month...can't wait!
I'm in Istanbul right now, staying very close to this stretch of wall. Like, I'm looking out my window now at Kennedy Cadesi. Anyway, yesterday, after rewatching your video, I walked the length of the area you covered. Thank you! It was very illuminating.
Amazing! That's what I hoped these would be used for one day. The city keeps changing though
I always wondered why no ships ever attacked the other side. Makes sense now. Thanks
Very interesting and informative. But I would like to point out that in Turkish "Caddesi" is not pronounced Kadessy - it's more Chahdesy for an English speaker. Just in case somebody is asking for directions...
I visited Istanbul a couple of decades ago and made this very walk along the sea wall. Thanks for bringing back some very good memories.
SO GOOD! Thank you.
Super duper interesting and the music at the start soothed my sick head after a hard day at work.
For whatever reason, this appeared on my feed. I have now subscribed to your channel and look forward to learning a lot more about 1000 years of history that was not only poorly taught at school but also seems to be suppressed, possibly by the “Roomse kerk”/ Vatican. Thank you.
I wrilly like your lovely fotos ,you cuch the moment and the atmosfear of Constantinople.❤
Thanks Robin. Delightful content as always 😊
Beautiful landscape city amazing design structure wall
Great Video
Beautiful
Great vid Robin, thanks for all your dedication this past decade!
It's sad that there doesn't seem to have been much desire to preserve the walls which must have been a marvel back in the day. Allowing homeless people to inhabit and "decorate" the ancient cistern? Unbelievable.
I was about to make the same comment - it seems unbelievable that it was partly demolished to allow a train line to run through the back of it. Although I see now it is undergoing some kind restoration project to the little that is left. It would seem commonplace that many, many historical building and structures have been allowed either by accident or design to fall into total ruin over the centuries?
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Its not an accident. The Turks have no problem in allowing people to disfigure and destroy ruins of the "enemy."
@@cartesian_doubt6230 The Ottomans ruled Greece for 400-500 years. They built many palaces, mansions, mosques, madrasas, towers, schools. Some of them must be 400-500 years old. Can you tell me where they are now? How much have the Greeks destroyed and disfigured Ottoman historical buildings?
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Can't help but think - how beautiful cities could be without cars?
Definitely!
what is it about Constantinople/Istanbul? it is so fascinating.
Layers and layers of history
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Thank you very much. It is a sad fact that Westerners do not know the history of Christianity, except for the Roman Church history, which is highly doctored. When the word Orthodox comes up, people think of Greece or Russia.
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Hagoa Sophia was a Catholic Church for longer than it was an Orthodox church.
@@lorddevonshire6382 it was always orthodox Catholic, that’s the official name of the church, Catholic in Greek means universal. Roman Catholic is something different
Turks in 2020 sent a contingiet of small force to libya, a genaral, a staff around 40 personel, an artillary battery and some tb2 drıones. They prevented collapse of legitime UN recognized goverment on the last minute againt rebel general haftar who was supported by France, Russia, UAE, Eygpt, Saudi Arabia, implicitly by US, Germany, Brits... Turks kicked out of haftar forcas deep into country just by organizing the militia, using air power with drones. Turks even in their weakest times are force to recon with. One can know what they can take out from a magicians hat. Byzantine having Turks as their enmy starting from 1270 to 1453 should hava known better that those walls would not be enough to save the empire.
I wish the Turks would stop removing the antiquities from Constantinople.