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Samo Burja
SamoBurja
Waiting for my Istanbul flight in a very empty COVID haunted airport. Made use of a lovely Sunday to visit old Constantinople. First visit was the site of the
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❄️❄️The Confessor ❄️❄️ #EndSARS
Kokuhaku_sha
The Fall of Constantinople - A Thread What were you doing at 18? At 21? Chances are, you weren't quite as baller as our Turkish prodigy here in Mehmed II,
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Tweeting Historians
Tweetistorian
The Byzantines often tried to assimilate barbarians by resettling groups of them in other parts of the empire. But this worked at cross-purposes to another desire: to use the barbarians’
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Dr. Sarah Bond
SarahEBond
April 13 (the Ides of April): The Roman shipping season officially reopens, particularly for transport of the annona (grain supply) from Alexandria in Egypt to the city of Rome. The
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Richard 🌞 Spencer
RichardBSpencer
Hagia Sophia is a monument to *eternity*, not a museum to the past. Though I have mixed feelings on the matter, and on President Erdogan, I ultimately support the cathedral's
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Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Mahmudabad
At a time when the world desperately needs hope and healing, the Hagia Sophia judgment will only open up old wounds. Political stances will be mistaken for intractable religious differences
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Byzantine Ambassador
byzantinepower
Re: A. Kaldellis and Romanland (2019). First, I love this book. He is one of my fave academix. And It retired so many dull tropes about only the tyranny of
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Pierre A. Colombier
PAColombier
The current state of greco-roman-byzantine vestiges in inland Anatolia.Everything is abandonned by Turkey (to be fair, even the cities are).@byzantinepower 1. Theatre of Nicaea/Nikaia (modern Iznik). 2. Walls of Nicaea/Nikaia
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Adam J. Manley
AdamTheAlien
For real, if you're not with us jamming to these electro-swing tunes, which include electro-swing mixes of video game music, you are MISSING OUT. Come enjoy with us!https://www.twitch.tv/DJSWITCHPDX Seriously, right
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Peter Sandham
HKSandham
When was the last time the Divine Liturgy was performed in #HagiaSophia ? 28th May 1453? Wrong. 19th January 1919. A thread on the Great Church's brief, little known 20th
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violet (◡‿◡✿)
psycultist
Bungo Stray Dogs- Dazai Lookalikes: A Thread dazai as this titan dazai as a malnourished orangutan dazai as a super mario mushroom dazai as serena/sailor moon dazai as this 4th
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HF Twit Met Gala
HFMetGala
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf This classic follows Orlando, an adventerous poet who lives for centuries and changes sex from male to female. The novel has been adapted many
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Ed Crooks
Ed_Crooks
Many people talk about the geopolitics of oil, but not enough about the critical role oil played in the politics of the Middle East 1,300 years ago. Oil was a
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Honengame✝️🇸🇴
CottonTurtle9
I am preparing to share a controversial opinion on ecclesiastical architecture I think the Basilica in DC is lovely and all, but it was the worst possible design that could
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helen
helenluvgood
I recently read about two Armenians who saved the populations of two Bulgarian towns from the Ottoman troops in the 1870s. Hovhannes Svajyan - a military telegraphist at the Tatar
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Hadi Nasrallah
HadiNasrallah
The Armenian Genocide 1914The Assyrian Genocide 1914The famine of Mount Lebanon 1915The Greek Genocide 1913The Hamidian massacres 1894The Diyarbakır massacres 1895The Batak massacre 1876The Hakkari massacres 1843The Massacre of Aleppo
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