A fine representation of Constantinople (aerial view). I do not know the creator, although I’m thinking of a French artist who is an expert on this topic. Felicitations to the creator for his work.
Aerial view of Constantinople: Urban planning
23/12/2021
Uncategorized Architecture, Byzantine, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, civil engineering, Constantinople, Engineering, Βυζάντιο, Βυζαντινή αυτοκρατορία, Βυζαντινοί, Κωνσταντινούπολη, Πολεοδομία, μηχανική, urban planning Leave a comment
Late Byzantine warrior 14th century
23/08/2021
Uncategorized Byzantine army, Byzantine Empire, Byzantines, Byzantium, σπαθί, Βυζαντινός στρατός, Βυζαντινή αυτοκρατορία, Βυζαντινοί, Κωνσταντινούπολη, medieval warfare, Military, Military history, Military technology, Warfare Leave a comment
A fine Byzantine hagiography of Saint Mercurios, early 14th century. His arms and armour are typical Byzantine of the Late period (church of Saint Clementios, Ochris).
Book Review: The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the 11th through the 15th Century by S. Vryonis, University of California Press
26/11/2018
Uncategorized Asia Minor, Book Review, Byzantine, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Constantinople, Islamization, Medieval Hellenism, medieval warfare, Military history, Roman Empire, Romans, Rome, UNIVERSI'I'Y OF CALIFORNIA Leave a comment
The loss of Asia Minor is often seen as the most decisive factor in the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Asia Minor was the territorial core of the empire during the Middle Byzantine Era. It was a wealthy and populous country of many millions of inhabitants, the main source of resources, raw materials, human resources, employees and soldiers for the Byzantine Empire. Its loss was, indeed, a major cause for the collapse of the Empire. However, this collapse was due to higher and wider political, social, economic, military, religious, ethnological and other negative parameters which in the first place led to the fall of Byzantine Asia Minor and then to the fall of the other imperial territories and eventually of the capital itself. More
City plan of Antioch, Seleucid capital (Syria)
03/09/2018
Uncategorized Ancient Engineering, Ancient warfare, Byzantine Empire, Engineering, Βυζαντινή αυτοκρατορία, Βυζαντινοί, Μηχανική, Πολεοδομία, Σελευκίδες, Roman Empire, Romans, Seleucid, Seleucid kingdom, urban planning 2 Comments
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City plan of Antioch (Syria), the capital of the western part of the Seleucid Empire and then a very important metropolis of the Roman and the Byzantine empires. Also a location map of the city.
East-West Christian schism (1054)
30/07/2018
Uncategorized 1054, Byzantine Empire, Catholic, Christian schism, Christianity, France, Germans, Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Orthodox, Protestant, Roman Empire, Schism 2 Comments
A map of Christianity in Europe after the great schism of 1054 CE (Wikimedia commons) between Orthodox Christians in the East (Roman/Byzantine Empire and East Slavic principalities) and Catholic Christians in the West (Holy Frankish/Roman Empire, the other Frankish kingdoms and their satelite states). Five centuries later, a new schism took place between the Catholics of SW Europe and the Protestant Christians of NW Europe.
The following map is a political map of Europe around 1000 CE, just a few decades before the first Schism. The main state units, the Roman Empire and the Principalities of Kiev and Novgorod for the Orthodox, and the Holy Frankish/Roman Empire, France and Hungary for the Catholics are shown.