#Byzantine

My thread about Islamic responses to antiquity provoked a lot of conversation, so I thought I'd do a follow-up thread to clarify a few points. I'm grateful for the questions,
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Today I should've been taking some lovely people on the 9 day @Martin_Randall tour of Essential Jordan. Instead, here's a Then & Now virtual tour, with archival photos from the
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Cizderiye (Tzistarakis) Mosque, Athens, GreeceBuilt in 1759 by the Ottoman governor of Athens, Mustafa Agha, desecrated by the newly independent Greek State after 1830s and used as a ballroom, barracks,
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You know what time it is?One like, one hot take time. 1. Any good definition of "people" includes great apes 2. Elephants and most whales are on the fence when
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Last year I took my friend and partner, @TundeLeye to my homestead. In going to that area, we did not cross the Niger River (Oshimmiri in my native dialect) the
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Thread en images de la Sicile d'hier ร  aujourd'huiCulture nรฉe de plusieurs peuples, principalement les berbรจres, les phรฉniciens, les grecs, les arabes, les juifs, les normands, les catalans et depuis
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๐‡๐ˆ๐’๐“๐Ž๐‘๐˜ ๐Ž๐… ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐˜๐€๐‘๐†๐€-๐’๐–๐€๐’๐“๐ˆ๐Š๐€ ๐ˆ๐ ๐‘๐”๐’๐’๐ˆ๐€๐ ๐€๐๐ƒ ๐’๐‹๐€๐•๐ˆ๐‚ ๐‚๐”๐‹๐“๐”๐‘๐„.๐€๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ข
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Monastery of Ghazali 500AD, makura -christian nubia hope to include more entries from sudan's christian period 500-1400AD,more;https://books.google.co.ug/books/about/The_Nubi
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Going to start a new thread about battles, tactics, armies, warriors and military titles in Eastern and Western Iranic lands, right under this tweet. At the Battle of Gaugamela (October
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Meet the #Payseur Familyโ€”Bloodline of the French Monarchs. And PRINCIPLE owners of "#1 Type A shares" in hundreds of the largest / oldest corporations in the US. I'm digging because
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perhaps the only attractive thing about moving apartments is the pleasure of rediscovering books long forgotten.... a few interesting books that I had forgotten about, as I discover them, in
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i will never learn how to spell massachusetts massacheusetts? massachewsetts? massachusitts? massachusets? massachussets? massuchussets? massucheezits? there's literally no way to know ANYWAY, mushycheezits has like a buuuuuunch of NRHPs. 4,318!
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For every like my retweet gets, I will recommend a SFF author and book.https://twitter.com/GuardianBooks/status/1242852128395104258 The Fire Opal Mechanism, by @fran_wilde . Lovely words, intriguing worldbuilding and finely drawn characters The
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