BYZANTINE MEMORIAL THREAD

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_OD6MkHIxc

Istanbul sucks

>>2878892
These drawings are beautiful, source?

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>>2878939

http://www.antoine-helbert.com/fr/portfolio/annexe-work/

http://www.byzantium1200.com/

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>>2878950

And the video accompanying it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX4UJv-eIjQ&t=321s

>>2878949
>>2878950
Thanks!

>>2878914
True that. Constantinople, on the other hand, is heavenly

It's unbelievable that a city that preserved Greco-Roman culture has lived up until the middle ages. You'd think that this is from a fantasy game but it happened.

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>>2879002

Indeed

I love their Architecture, it looks like a more natural progression of how classical Architecture would've headed had Greco-Roman culture lives on, more than whatever renaissance revival produce

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>>2879025

I agree, Renaissance architecture is more Romanesque in style than classical.

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moving on to Byzantine art and mosaics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxl-x8LMnbQ

>>2879398
Conquistador af

Nice, thanks for the dump.

KONSTANTINOPOLIS

QUEEN OF THE CITIES

Why did it take until Constantine I for somebody to realize that if they built a giant wall across the front of Byzantium it would become a fantastic port city that is also impregnable to siege?

>>2879468
Well he sorta built the city from scratch, all that was there at the time was a small poor colonial village.

>>2879468
Byzantium was founded a fucking millennium before Constantine was even born.
It was a trade port of moderate size, but it had problems expanding due to the constant pressure of the thracians.
The location btw is hardly impregnable. Convenient and defendable, sure, but impregnable? The city has been taken many times through its history.

>>2879518
>The city has been taken many times through its history

Wut. It only was taken twice by invading forces

>>2879468
You can't just magically make a massive city, Constantine was only able to turn byzantion into constantinople so because he had the resources of a fuckhuge empire at his disposal

high quality dump OP. well done

Story of the fall posted here >>2879450

>>2879936

Sorry dude but you are wrong. The area was colonized by Greeks in the mid 600s B.C.E, well before Constantine.

Think about it. The Romans would have to have invaded it at some point prior for it to be part of the empire and become the eastern empire. It was also taken by the Achaemenids in the 500s.

Also not to go full autismo but it was also taken in the 1920s. Your statement is factually incorrect.

>>2878892
>Be Bulgarian
>Be a history buff
>My countrymen bash Byzantium every chance they have
>I'm just damn proud we butted heads with the greatest empire the world has ever seen.

On the upside though, living in Bulgaria has some perks, like going into the wild mountains and stumbling into a Byzantine fortress which stands frozen in time

>>2880292
Image limit reached but here, have some awesomeness

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http://media.snimka.bg/8333/022922075-big.jpg

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>>2880315
It's a pile of rubble and not an actual fortress

>>2880315
not byzaboo but I'm going to cum

>>2880336
An understandable reaction but think about it this way: Every other surviving/intact fortress you see has been in use for centuries if not a millennia after its construction, hence the structure was modified and modified and modified until almost nothing of the original remains. What you are seeing here is a structure abandoned in the XIIth century and untouched since then.

>>2880315
That's some Witcher grade shit right there mang, like a place you'd loot for diagrams

V good thread

>>2880234
he means during the time that constantine made it the capital of the eastern roman empire, dummy