What would you have seen in Constantinople of 330 AD?

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  • @Maiorianus_Sebastian
    @Maiorianus_Sebastian Жыл бұрын

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  • @explorer1968
    @explorer1968 Жыл бұрын

    The grecorroman style was so intense and beautiful that Christianity didn't erase it, it adopted it. The dream of Roman unity prevailed for thousand years more, what a time of cultural height and religion!!

  • @halsnyder296
    @halsnyder296 Жыл бұрын

    Still hard to imagine how quickly cities and technology declined! My support is being well spent, fantastic work!

  • @wynnschaible

    @wynnschaible

    Жыл бұрын

    NYC and Chicago (and others) are declining already in our day! There are certain requirements for an urban civilization, and if a society does not uphold those requirements that civilization will not stand, no matter how many buildings, what amount of money, what degree of weaponry it may start with.

  • @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for your extremely kind words and for your continuous support Hal :) I really appreciate it a lot.

  • @abutalhasiddique6287

    @abutalhasiddique6287

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wynnschaible True, what u said. Is also mentioned in the book 📖 Decline of the West.

  • @samuelluria4744

    @samuelluria4744

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wynnschaible - No kidding.

  • @foreverraining1522

    @foreverraining1522

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wynnschaible Liberals destroyed Rome due to leftwing corruption and policies, but conservatives destroyed Constantinople due to their bible believing fairytale beliefs. Liberals can't run a country, and neither can a non-existent so-called god. If conservatives in America think they can just god-god-god-god-god us back to prosperity, then America is just as doomed as Constantinople.

  • @shaunsteele8244
    @shaunsteele8244 Жыл бұрын

    I saw those obelisks in 2009 AD. It was pretty cool being in such an ancient and important city. I still call it Constantinople lol

  • @arldoran

    @arldoran

    Жыл бұрын

    You may ofc, if the fact that the name was always some different variations of Istanbul even centuries before the age of Constantine doesn't bother you.

  • @stirpsromanica

    @stirpsromanica

    Жыл бұрын

    Heh, I saw them in 2009 BC

  • @nyagolnyagolov7130

    @nyagolnyagolov7130

    Жыл бұрын

    We, Bulgarians still call it Czarigrad (Цариград) meaning city of the Czar(Caesar)! Constantine I supposedly said that Serdica (nowadays Sofia - capital of Bulgaria with buildings from that time still standing) was his Rome, as he was using that place as residence before choosing Constantinople, I mean Czarigrad 😄! It happened so that I was born right in the middle between the two cities!

  • @tianjuliao3221
    @tianjuliao3221 Жыл бұрын

    Dear Majorian: I think during the time of Justinian,some of the Pagan temples in Constantinople were still in use. Although Theodosius banned pagan religions, but according to Procopius, there were still small pagan religious group in Constantinople that makes Empress Theodora angry, also according to Procopius, the province of Egypt was also very pagan in 500s.

  • @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    Жыл бұрын

    Hello tian ju liao, thank you so much for your very detailed and long comment :) I really appreciate it. And it is an honor for me that you joined Maiorianus as an official member. Your generous support will help me produce even better videos in the future :)

  • @62rob53

    @62rob53

    Жыл бұрын

    Interesting anyway

  • @paulcapaccio9905
    @paulcapaccio9905 Жыл бұрын

    You have the best late Roman period videos. Keep up the good work. Priceless

  • @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot Paul, that is wonderful for me to read :) I will certainly keep going, because there is still so very much I want to cover, all the eras until the very end in 1453 AD.

  • @TaeSunWoo
    @TaeSunWoo Жыл бұрын

    Literally watching this while playing Crusader Kings 3: The Fallen Eagle. Thank you, Maiorianus ☺️

  • @thatromanguy1906

    @thatromanguy1906

    Жыл бұрын

    fallen eagle? is it a mod or something?

  • @kevintierney5711

    @kevintierney5711

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thatromanguy1906 It’s a mod that starts before 400 AD

  • @swann3482

    @swann3482

    Жыл бұрын

    Same lol

  • @TaeSunWoo

    @TaeSunWoo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@swann3482 I woke up at 6am and been playing oops

  • @swann3482

    @swann3482

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TaeSunWoo dat do be like that

  • @vardansaroyan7634
    @vardansaroyan7634 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!!! That was great. It would be great to see your description of the different regions of the empire. How Christian they were, how peacefully they were transformed, what were the economic prerequisites for this ..... and so on.

  • @rishavkumar1250

    @rishavkumar1250

    Жыл бұрын

    Similar to how the Anatolians became muslim later

  • @vHumboldt77
    @vHumboldt77 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. I love your vídeos and speech, including the inflections of your voice.

  • @SNP-1999
    @SNP-1999 Жыл бұрын

    Outstanding and breathtaking reconstructions! Having just found this excellent channel - and immediately subscribed of course - I am impressed with the quality and detail of these videos on a sadly neglected subject, the history and culture of the Late Roman Empire. Great work!

  • @The88Cheat
    @The88Cheat Жыл бұрын

    This is a SERIOUSLY underrated channel.

  • @Ntyler01mil
    @Ntyler01mil8 ай бұрын

    The version of the Church of the Holy Apostles that you show in this video is the Justinianianic phase, which was built beside the earlier and much smaller Constantinian phase. The Constantinian church likely served as Constantine's tomb, and descriptions suggest it was a round structure with niches containing symbolic sarcophaguses for the 12 Apostles plus one more for Constantine; positioning Constantine as a sort of Apostle. It probably looked very similar to the Rotunda of St. George in Thessaloniki. It's the lager cross-shaped Justinianianic phase that is emulated in Venice's Saint Mark's Basilica, Saint Front in Perigueux, etc. Dumbarton Oaks has a great book on the subject called, “The Holy Apostles: A Lost Monument, A forgotten Project, and the Presentness of the Past.”

  • @ajideroock2177
    @ajideroock2177 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing videos! I love that you brig light to a very underrepresented topic. Thanks!

  • @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    Жыл бұрын

    Hello Aji de Roock, thanks a lot, I really appreciate it ! Yes, I was always fascinated by urban history, and especially Rome and Constantinople's urban history have always fascinated me.

  • @nkseverin
    @nkseverinАй бұрын

    Fascinating, indeed! Clear narration with just enough detail.

  • @emrage
    @emrage Жыл бұрын

    Something that's become apparent to me watching this is that the name Capitoleum (Temple) you mention in the video is also the name of one of the oldest shopping centers in Istanbul (Capitol). Never knew that was in reference to Byzantium.

  • @Peter-MH
    @Peter-MH Жыл бұрын

    Would be interesting to know more about the riots referred to in this episode! Especially relevant at the moment, which social unrest in a number of countries at the moment.

  • @SobekLOTFC
    @SobekLOTFC Жыл бұрын

    Great job, Sebastian 👍

  • @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for watching the video and for your kind words as always, Sobek 🤗

  • @sohailsayeed9361
    @sohailsayeed9361 Жыл бұрын

    I love every video you make.

  • @OptimusMaximusNero
    @OptimusMaximusNero Жыл бұрын

    Constantine: "Moving the capital of the Empire to a safe and secluded place like this was a brilliant decision. What a smart bastard you are, Constantine. What a smart bastard you are..." Lactantius: "By the way, Caesar. What do you intend to do with the succession to the throne?" Constantine: "I will divide the Empire for my children the day I meet that God you spend all day talking about. They will surely appreciate the efforts and sacrificies I made for its preservation and will know how to take care of it..."

  • @Xavme_
    @Xavme_ Жыл бұрын

    Great quality videos

  • @ashleymcmurray5060
    @ashleymcmurray5060 Жыл бұрын

    Very good ! I'd like to see more content on this channel more often, Predict this to be a very large and succesful channel over the next few years, If I want to be lectured on the late roman era this is where its at the accent is perfect and the art is stunning. you have a very good thing going on here keep it up !

  • @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    Жыл бұрын

    Hello Ashley, thanks a lot ,that is wonderful for me to read :) I am currently trying to increase my video production again so that hopefully I can release videos more often, but I want to do that without the quality suffering. There are still hundreds of topics on my to-do list, so we shall have video materials for many years to come :)

  • @wynnschaible
    @wynnschaible Жыл бұрын

    But as Thucydides knew, "Men make a state, not walls nor empty ships."

  • @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for bringing up this nice saying fractalbeethoven :)

  • @kaykhosrow3263
    @kaykhosrow3263 Жыл бұрын

    hey man, your videos are amazing, as Zoroastrian Persian, I was feeling alone about my opinions on Roman history and reasons of their fall, then found your channel and saw that you basically have same opinions, you should create a discord or telegram channel

  • @62rob53

    @62rob53

    Жыл бұрын

    We Europeans never want to recognize the greatness of ancient Persia; we only see it as an enemy..

  • @poukaa7047

    @poukaa7047

    Жыл бұрын

    Omg,you are true Persian

  • @ilmaio

    @ilmaio

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@62rob53that would be because of the persian wars. And, recently, for having moral police killing young girls because of not dressing like nuns. It's not the west being hostile to Persia, that was a modern country in the '60ies and '70ies, before to turn into an authoritarian theocracy, that removed freedom of thought, of speech and any civil right. It's not the west to blame, if the relationship deteriorated. Nobody in the west despise the persians, known to be kind and civilized. Just their government sucks.

  • @62rob53

    @62rob53

    8 ай бұрын

    A I was thinking of the movie 400.

  • @demirdemirbag3194
    @demirdemirbag3194 Жыл бұрын

    Great video! I live in Istanbul, would love to send you the pictures I took inside the archeological museum which show classical artifacts.

  • @ktammi
    @ktammi Жыл бұрын

    Your content is so good you really need better audio equipment and or a space for voiceovers

  • @davidkeane1820
    @davidkeane1820 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    Жыл бұрын

    Hello David :) Thank you so much for watching the video and for your generous donation. It is highly appreciated 🙏

  • @paulcapaccio9905
    @paulcapaccio9905 Жыл бұрын

    Please never change your background music . It

  • @ashleymcmurray5060

    @ashleymcmurray5060

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed very relaxing

  • @andrewcarpenter687
    @andrewcarpenter687 Жыл бұрын

    The song stabbing westward is very fitting...I cannot save you and you cannot save yourself....interesting times...ps. the elites are something else...always wondered if they obtain power from another source, non human...probably not...maybe I'm in the matrix...

  • @c.norbertneumann4986
    @c.norbertneumann4986 Жыл бұрын

    Can it be that this is a re-upload? It seems to me that I saw a video with similar content on KZread a couple of weeks ago. At 5.37, a map of Constantinople is shown. I'd like to know whether the old road network can still be recognized in today's Istanbul. A while ago, I watched a documentary on TV showing that there are some inner cities of German towns where the medieval road network can even today be recognized.

  • @ardafrlar4130

    @ardafrlar4130

    Жыл бұрын

    Some section of Mesa boulevard is intact today as Divanyolu street.

  • @panos21aek12
    @panos21aek12 Жыл бұрын

    You would see especially Greeks, few romans but definitely not mongols that's for sure.

  • @MertPapazoglu

    @MertPapazoglu

    Жыл бұрын

    You would never see mongols even till today wtf 😂. Also AEK 👎. Gala 🔥

  • @kitharoidos1089
    @kitharoidos1089 Жыл бұрын

    Question 🙋 What are those pillars that can be seen around the 20 seconds mark. They look like Hercules’ clubs. Is there an archeological record for such pillar designs or is it just the illustrators imagination?

  • @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    Жыл бұрын

    Excellent question, they did actually exist: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_of_Theodosius#/media/File:Forum_Theodosius_Istanbul_March_2008_(1).JPG They are visible even today, where once the Forum of Theodosius stood. That is why the illustrations of Antoine Helbert are so excellent, they are all based on archeological evidence.

  • @kitharoidos1089

    @kitharoidos1089

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Maiorianus_Sebastian Thank you so much for the answer! 🙏

  • @cmcb7230
    @cmcb72303 ай бұрын

    Has there ever been a city more strategically located and geographically defendable as Constantinople?

  • @hmao4466
    @hmao4466 Жыл бұрын

    Love this channel...

  • @edwardfranks5215
    @edwardfranks5215 Жыл бұрын

    history books misinform readers the city was the second capital. it was not given this status until May 359 when an urban prefect was made the city's chief administrator. senators resident there were clari and the became clarissimi. the city may have had 250000 inhabitants and 350000 buy 400. It surpassed old rome circa 450 or a little later as the population of old rome dropped to 200-250k in 500.

  • @thatromanguy1906
    @thatromanguy1906 Жыл бұрын

    constantinople was probably very beautiful at that time

  • @jpaulc441
    @jpaulc441 Жыл бұрын

    1:28 There are so many places to hide in a city like that but what were your chances of actually remaining hidden if the city was captured and sacked by the enemy? Probably slim I guess.

  • @samuelluria4744

    @samuelluria4744

    Жыл бұрын

    No kidding. At some point, people have to draw water, eat, and defecate.

  • @tarionmarsden157
    @tarionmarsden157 Жыл бұрын

    An in depth video on the Nika riots would be good

  • @watermunteconomie3938
    @watermunteconomie393810 ай бұрын

    I need a time machine, right now!

  • @icspawn
    @icspawn Жыл бұрын

    You forgot to mention of destructive earthquakes. One earthquake created to really big tsunami and the other one disappeared an island. The reason of the city chosen by Constantine is Chrisopolis (Today Uskudar) Victory. He made a great victory against his last rival and Byzantium helped him a lot. This is an important detail too.

  • @fr.michaelknipe4839
    @fr.michaelknipe483911 күн бұрын

    Excellent

  • @mate5571
    @mate5571 Жыл бұрын

    Maybe I’m stupid, but how can buildings built almost entirely of stone burn down to the point of destruction?

  • @decimusausoniusmagnus5719

    @decimusausoniusmagnus5719

    Жыл бұрын

    Most of the city was built with wood, as all cities in Antiquity, I'd like to think that the fires it created were so strong that it melted whatever they had used for cement. Also many of those houses would've had wooden beams.

  • @samuelluria4744

    @samuelluria4744

    Жыл бұрын

    You're NOT stupid!! That's a very legitimate question!!!

  • @ldubt4494

    @ldubt4494

    Жыл бұрын

    They weren't only built of stone. Would was also in there. But behind the facade.

  • @demirdemirbag3194

    @demirdemirbag3194

    Жыл бұрын

    They reused stones from burnt buildings to make new ones. Do not forget that during riots, wars and pandemic outbreaks the population decreased. Also, Constantinople is on an active earthquake zone. If you are living in Europe, which is an old continent, the earthquake occurrence levels are very low. I live in Istanbul and we have a major above 6.0 on richter scale earthquake every 30 years. The earthquakes also demolished buildings and remnants of damaged buildings. These all contribute. As an example, all the classical antique statues and artifacts were stored in the Imperial Palace but at one time that building got burned down and alas, all the bronze statues got melted. You get the idea...

  • @user-qn8cp5jc3s

    @user-qn8cp5jc3s

    Жыл бұрын

    Not to mention the destruction of the crusaders in 1204 AD

  • @maureenoneill2847
    @maureenoneill2847 Жыл бұрын

    Reeny couture's acknowledgement conscription

  • @ThalesGMota
    @ThalesGMota Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic City.

  • @sifridbassoon
    @sifridbassoon9 ай бұрын

    Oh for a time machine!

  • @CaptainGrimes1
    @CaptainGrimes1 Жыл бұрын

    I'd recommend reading Timothy Barnes 'Constantine' , he argues that the city was largely destroyed by Septimius Severus and only started being rebuilt by Licinius, so there were no active pagan temples and Constantine had a blank sheet to build a new Christian capital.

  • @joellaz9836

    @joellaz9836

    Жыл бұрын

    From what I’ve read, no pagan temples were allowed to be built in Constantinople after Constantine made it his capital.

  • @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    Жыл бұрын

    Hi, that is an interesting theory, but there are competing theories which imho make more sense. It's a bit difficult to believe that in the 140 years between Septimius Severus and Licinius, the city remained largely destroyed. In fact, Severus actually rebuilt many monuments, and the 1st Hippodrome goes back to Severus. He also built the city walls and quite some other monuments. The temples on the Akropolis during that time would have 100% been rebuilt, since Rome was still very very pagan during that time. Also, there is archeological evidence that the city had grown beyond the Severan walls by the 3rd century, so this thesis of a destroyed city before Constantine doesn't make sense to me.

  • @CaptainGrimes1

    @CaptainGrimes1

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Maiorianus_Sebastian For me it makes sense that it was largely destroyed and though people still lived there was reduced to a status more akin to a town, the Romans had done such things before with Carthage and Jerusalem only to rebuild them later. It makes sense the pro Constantine histories would not want to give credit for rebuilding to Licinius but instead to Septimius Severus.

  • @unarealtaragionevole
    @unarealtaragionevole Жыл бұрын

    I like these "What would you have seen.." Have you ever thought about a video for cities like Athens from like 50 CE - 500 CE?

  • @unarealtaragionevole

    @unarealtaragionevole

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Zeerich-yx9po True...it's a long time period. But he likes to start his transitions from earliest records to late Roman times. He could adjust his times however he wants....but we would need to see the transition from Athens non-Roman, Athens pagan Roman, Athens early Christian, Athens late Roman/Christian to the year 500 CE. To see the best transition from a pure Greek to Roman.

  • @samuelluria4744

    @samuelluria4744

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Zeerich-yx9po - Good to know. Certainly people on this channel don't realize the basic historical context and what could have transpired in that time.

  • @andrewcarpenter687
    @andrewcarpenter687 Жыл бұрын

    You had to pick the year 330 ad...not 329 or 331 but 330...interesting....

  • @edwardfranks5215
    @edwardfranks5215 Жыл бұрын

    it's not surprising that the city looked 'pagan' as there was NO DISTINCT CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE AT THE TIME. The Christians built churches patterned after roman basilicas. It took another 2-3 centuries for the classical city with all its infrastructures to die with the exception of baths, circuses, some libraries. Everything else went: odeons (covered lecture and concert halls), theatres, palestra (gymnasiums), temples, amphitheatres, forums. The most impressive buildings were the early ones mentioned in the presentation and the huge Great Palace, and large churches. By 700 the main preoccupation of byzantine culture was religion and secular literature was secondary. Byzantine culture was not decadent; it was narrowly focused on a set of different values compared to pagan culture,

  • @62rob53

    @62rob53

    Жыл бұрын

    Even around the year 1000 there were bacchanalias; only members of the church were allowed to visit them

  • @handel1111
    @handel1111 Жыл бұрын

    great to see Assassin's Creed Origins simulation

  • @jasonladd6400
    @jasonladd6400 Жыл бұрын

    The might and majesty of Constantine.

  • @tadeusouzagrion3668
    @tadeusouzagrion3668 Жыл бұрын

    Gostei do video, gostaria que fosse traduzido para a língua portuguesa

  • @Chriscs7
    @Chriscs7 Жыл бұрын

    Every building was more classy and had a deep feeling back then. Now all buildings are mostly practical to keep people live there without any essence, spirit or beauty. I wish I could live back then when everything was more spiritual and connected.

  • @RPe-jk6dv
    @RPe-jk6dv Жыл бұрын

    constantinople was constantins residence, not the new capital. the city became a capital not before constantius ii. or theodosius 1.

  • @Desertfox18
    @Desertfox18 Жыл бұрын

    Pagan Rome is the best Rome.

  • @michaeldy3157

    @michaeldy3157

    20 сағат бұрын

    Architecture wise yes . But savage brutality wise no .

  • @Desertfox18

    @Desertfox18

    14 сағат бұрын

    @@michaeldy3157 Clothing wise best is also Pagan Rome. Christian Rome went onto wearing pants.

  • @ThalesGMota
    @ThalesGMota Жыл бұрын

    I Like of The Video.

  • @arolemaprarath6615
    @arolemaprarath6615 Жыл бұрын

    Correction: Constantinople was never thracian. It was founded by the Greek colonists from doric region.

  • @samuelluria4744

    @samuelluria4744

    Жыл бұрын

    Not so clear.

  • @suno2219

    @suno2219

    Жыл бұрын

    @dimensional X Constantinople was built on an ancient Greek city named 'Byzantium' that's where the Byzantine Empire got it's name from

  • @ItalMiser117

    @ItalMiser117

    Жыл бұрын

    @dimensional X Greek nationalist people are so funny. They claim that every byzantine emperor were ethnic greeks and that that ancestry etc has nothing to do with it and is only decided to culture and language. But then when i ask them, what ethnicity constantine the great was, they just simply respond with : "Greek" lol. Constantines native language was latin and never considered himself a greek but a roman as tons of others did.

  • @arldoran

    @arldoran

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ItalMiser117 The ethnicity of Constantine does not matter. Who was living in and around the city, what was their ethnicity, which language they were speaking...? this matter. The Noble class never represents the ethnicity of the ordinary people they rule. For example; almost none of Ottoman Sultans were Turkish.

  • @ItalMiser117

    @ItalMiser117

    Жыл бұрын

    @@arldoran the ethnicity does matter since that was the topic of the conversation. Constantine the great wasn't greek. But many greeks claim that all byzantine emperors were greek

  • @RPe-jk6dv
    @RPe-jk6dv Жыл бұрын

    constantin made byzantium not the new capital of the roman empire but his new residence.

  • @septimiusseverus343

    @septimiusseverus343

    Жыл бұрын

    Akin to how when in another video Maiorianus claimed that Rome became the capital of the West in its' last decades. When in fact it was just an imperial residence for some emperors, and Ravenna remained the political/military capital until the fall.

  • @maureenoneill2847
    @maureenoneill2847 Жыл бұрын

    Affidavit includes by Dell Ennis torok our 33 annals agenda's

  • @vincentkosik403
    @vincentkosik403 Жыл бұрын

    I'm a fan of Constantine and this wasawesome

  • @markwang898
    @markwang898 Жыл бұрын

    What does Constantinople look like at 717 A.D during 20 years anarchy

  • @dmitryostrovsky5763
    @dmitryostrovsky5763 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful work, but somewhat speculative take on some of your history when no real facts to back you up nor contradict your speculations based upon your obvious prejudges .

  • @miastupid7911
    @miastupid7911 Жыл бұрын

    It was called Rome.

  • @Erato7
    @Erato75 ай бұрын

    😢

  • @henriettewiese
    @henriettewiese26 күн бұрын

    The fall of Constantinople caused a change in commercial routes. Thats how Columbus discovered by mistake América.

  • @costamoc
    @costamoc Жыл бұрын

    It was never called Byzantium

  • @heliedecastanet1882

    @heliedecastanet1882

    Жыл бұрын

    Dear Costas, instead of just saying what it was not called and leaving us halfway, rather say what it was called. It would be more judicious and less selfish…

  • @costamoc

    @costamoc

    Жыл бұрын

    @@heliedecastanet1882 Romania or Eastern Roman Empire.

  • @heliedecastanet1882

    @heliedecastanet1882

    Жыл бұрын

    @@costamoc Romania, right. Or Empire of the Romans. But not Eastern Roman Empire. They never called themselves like that. However, we can use this term nowadays, because it is convenient, and closer to the reality than the old, false and restrictive "Byzantium", I agree. Have a good day !

  • @edwardfranks5215
    @edwardfranks5215 Жыл бұрын

    it was his chief residence not capital. a lot of the buildings were a bit rickety as these were constructed in such haste.

  • @maureenoneill2847
    @maureenoneill2847 Жыл бұрын

    Purgations marmora

  • @user-rg5nn2rk2f
    @user-rg5nn2rk2f Жыл бұрын

    No Byzantine. Nova Roma ! East Roman empire.

  • @62rob53

    @62rob53

    Жыл бұрын

    Nea Roma?

  • @SithLord2066
    @SithLord2066 Жыл бұрын

    Man those Nika rioters sure burned down a lot of great buildings. Maybe Belisarius slaughtering all of them wasn't such a bad idea.

  • @62rob53

    @62rob53

    Жыл бұрын

    Actually, the rebels were lumpens.

  • @maureenoneill2847
    @maureenoneill2847 Жыл бұрын

    Marmora

  • @clydecessna737
    @clydecessna737 Жыл бұрын

    It is my understanding that there is but one non ecclesiastical building in Istanbul today that predates the city's 2nd Fall in 1453 and that is Palace of Blachernae. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Blachernae

  • @Leptospirosi
    @Leptospirosi Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic! I was surprised of how little remains of the Roman capital in modern Bizantium. What surprised me the more is that it was not a result of Ottoman occupation. It was rather due to the Ottomans that what is present nowadays has been preserved. At the time of Mehemet II just scattered remained of the Justinian palace and Hagia Sophia was in a truly sad state. The Crusaders occupation, the Venetian plundering brought the city to its knees and the later Comnenos and Paleologi sovereigns left the city to rot for almost 2 centuries before the Ottomans took over.

  • @62rob53

    @62rob53

    Жыл бұрын

    There was always a little money to restore something, but Byzantium is over..

  • @GoogleUserOne
    @GoogleUserOne Жыл бұрын

    Don’t worry our eastern Roman predecessors. The republic is still fighting to undermine the sassanians and Seljuks

  • @TheLeonhamm
    @TheLeonhamm Жыл бұрын

    Umm? An over-stuffed (with art 'stolen' from across the Roman empire) still Pagan culture (in art, taste, literature, architecture, teaching and study) built for an (almost) exclusively Christian city. In other words, a Theme Park version of the Theme Park that imperial Rome had long since become, but with an all too real and at times brutal seat of government; that is, a mirror of what Old Rome had once been .. in the imagination .. though wrapped up in a New Rome purpose. Beautiful, for sure, but as unpleasant as Roman Rome had been .. and as magnificent as it made itself. A successful piece of megalomania then, made lasting by Justinian's - also megalomaniacal - expensive building/ re-building sprees. And that, dear souls, was 'Rome' .. the reality, not the Gibbons history, nor the Holywood fiction. ;o)

  • @TheLeonhamm

    @TheLeonhamm

    Жыл бұрын

    @@decimusausoniusmagnus5719 Or, of course - though this might (just might) be a touch too far-out revolutionary in the common thought process today - simply tell it like it was. Yey! ;o)

  • @gunarsmiezis9321
    @gunarsmiezis9321 Жыл бұрын

    This video was the first one in which I heard you misspronounce a word, and you did it in such a german way. Ser only you germans read z as c (of medival latin) literally no one else does that.

  • @gbp4998
    @gbp4998 Жыл бұрын

    First it wasn't called Constantinople but Second Rome. It was not called Bizantia but Eastern Roman Empire.

  • @snizami
    @snizami5 ай бұрын

    😅 I knew it. That voice. Infamous diehard Musk fanboy. Kept bothering me until I googled the name. How can you do such an excellent job presenting this history but fail so hard when it comes to musk's fake techno-futurism. Although, the hero-worshiping nostalgic dedication at the channel's core does check out. Why do you worship men, man?

  • @pyuniq
    @pyuniq Жыл бұрын

    What would you see ? Not Turks .

  • @bobjackson4720
    @bobjackson4720 Жыл бұрын

    You make pagan sound like a bad thing. It appears that the transformation to Christianity was not really a positive thing for the Roman Empire as a whole.

  • @osmanisildak2448
    @osmanisildak2448 Жыл бұрын

    Give me a handful of fierce TURKIC warriors and i'll pregnate Constantinople.

  • @jnf1270
    @jnf1270 Жыл бұрын

    you need better narration

  • @ThomasGazis
    @ThomasGazis Жыл бұрын

    The usual falsification of history in this video as well! That the predominantly Greek Byzantium was not Greek but latin Roman!

  • @micha2909

    @micha2909

    Жыл бұрын

    It was Latin until the 6th century.

  • @ThomasGazis

    @ThomasGazis

    Жыл бұрын

    @@micha2909 That part of the world was prominently Hellenistic Greek even during its proper latin Roman occupation! The Hellenistic world did not dissapear simply because some Roman legions (often with Greek soldiers), the local Roman prefect and his entourage were installed in the area! Out of them, the entire society was prominently Hellenistic Greek!

  • @Geoma1999

    @Geoma1999

    Жыл бұрын

    The Ancient City Byzantion was created by the Megaris and became the name from Byzantas

  • @jayakrishnan26
    @jayakrishnan26 Жыл бұрын

    Definitely not Islam

  • @adrianseanheidmann4559
    @adrianseanheidmann4559 Жыл бұрын

    OOOOF, sorry mate, I just can't with your voice. Please hire a narrator or I don't know, maybe a parrot?

  • @heliedecastanet1882

    @heliedecastanet1882

    Жыл бұрын

    Dear Adrian, his voice is so much more pleasant than your manners 🙂

  • @adrianseanheidmann4559

    @adrianseanheidmann4559

    Жыл бұрын

    @@heliedecastanet1882 Nah. It sounds like the most exagerated German accent I've listened to in my life and I'AM German. Absolutely unbeareble makes me want to stuff Kartoffeln in my ears. It's not his fault per sé, but he should REALLY give training his pronounciation another try. I have to be rude btw. it's my national pasttime. So, figg dich! :)

  • @heliedecastanet1882

    @heliedecastanet1882

    Жыл бұрын

    @@adrianseanheidmann4559 Vous ne croyez pas si bien dire, cher Adrian. C'est l'un de mes passe-temps favoris 🙂 Bisou, chaton 😘

  • @adrianseanheidmann4559

    @adrianseanheidmann4559

    Жыл бұрын

    @@heliedecastanet1882 Ich spreche kein Pampelmouse Kollege. :(

  • @heliedecastanet1882

    @heliedecastanet1882

    Жыл бұрын

    @@adrianseanheidmann4559 Ich weiß. Nur Englisch und Deutsch. Glücklicherweise werden Sie nicht gebeten, Höflichkeit zu lehren 🙂 What an interesting teacher you would be… Bonne soirée Kollege 😘

  • @WojciechP915
    @WojciechP915 Жыл бұрын

    Turkey is not Europe

  • @ecurewitz

    @ecurewitz

    Жыл бұрын

    Part of it certainly is in Europe

  • @septimiusseverus343

    @septimiusseverus343

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ecurewitz Yeah, a small sliver of land. The bulk of it is in _the Middle East._

  • @step2058

    @step2058

    Жыл бұрын

    @@septimiusseverus343 still

  • @micha2909

    @micha2909

    Жыл бұрын

    This video is about Roman antiquity where Southern Europe, North Africa and West Asia all had the same culture.

  • @JanuszKrysztofiak

    @JanuszKrysztofiak

    Жыл бұрын

    That's a bit complex, Turkey was in between. Geographically, an important part of it is located in Europe. Historically, the most precious Ottoman provinces were in Europe whereas Anatolia was a backwater. The empire had many ties with Europe, to the point it could be considered one of the European powers by some. Influences went both ways, for instance, the fashion of the 17th-century Polish nobility was inspired by the Turkish one. Oh, and the father of the Republic of Turkey was born in Thessaloniki.

  • @GenerationX1984
    @GenerationX1984 Жыл бұрын

    Byzantium is the original name of the city. Stupid religions changing its name.

  • @ItalMiser117

    @ItalMiser117

    Жыл бұрын

    No it wasn't

  • @GenerationX1984

    @GenerationX1984

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ItalMiser117 Oh really? What was it called before it was named Constantinople then? Since you know so much.

  • @ItalMiser117

    @ItalMiser117

    Жыл бұрын

    @@GenerationX1984 byzantion. That was a whole different city though. Constantinople looked Absolutely different and was like 8 times larger than byzantion.

  • @Geoma1999

    @Geoma1999

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ItalMiser117 It's the same city with a different name in the different time periods......The City was built with the name Byzantion in the 6th century BC. Later became Augusta Antonina, then again Byzantion, then New Rome later Constantinople, the Ottomans called it Konstantiniye and in the present Istanbul.

  • @ItalMiser117

    @ItalMiser117

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Geoma1999 no it doesn't. Refounded. Ever heard of that term?

  • @santiagogarciapinto8188
    @santiagogarciapinto8188 Жыл бұрын

    sometime it will be greek and cristian again.

  • @nikolastefanov8645
    @nikolastefanov8645 Жыл бұрын

    I CAN NOT BILIV HOW LENGVICH VITH NO NASIONALITI IS MOR IMPORTENT THEN NASHIONALITI WITH ( LENGVECH,ADMINISTRATION ,ARMY,FOLKOR PEAP0L,RELIGION) WE MASEDONIANS ARE THE 'BALKANS' NOT ( GREEKS, BULGARIAS ,SRBIANS OR ALBENIANS).WEST MAKE THEM IN 1800 TH.HUNDREDS SAS A CONTRES AND NATIONS.

  • @nikolastefanov8645
    @nikolastefanov8645 Жыл бұрын

    CONSTADIN BIRTH PLACE VAS IN MASEDONIA IN TODAY SRBIJA NAME 'NISH".SO GREEK S DID NOT EXISTED AT THAT TIME.

  • @Geoma1999

    @Geoma1999

    Жыл бұрын

    We called ourselves Romans at that time and not Greeks.

  • @sevkiozbilen2261
    @sevkiozbilen2261 Жыл бұрын

    this is not the cONSTANTİNOPORİS, İT İS İSTANBUL NOT THE TURKEY, it is TÜRKİYE... UNDERSDİNG MAN.

  • @ruufusdeleon1264
    @ruufusdeleon1264 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    Жыл бұрын

    Hello Ruufus De Leon, thanks a lot for watching the video and for your generous support! I really appreciate it 🤗

  • @SquireWaldo
    @SquireWaldo Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    @Maiorianus_Sebastian

    Жыл бұрын

    Hello Squire Waldo :) Thanks so much for watching the video and for your generous donation! It is highly appreciated 😊

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