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The rise of Venice to become the great emporium for the West’s trade with the East was closely connected with the Byzantine recovery; culturally, Venice was really an outpost of the great metropolis at Constantinople – as its architecture revealed.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
A Byzantine coin from the 10th century was found in Norway getting all over the news. https://t.co/NEQDqhqK5W
Η @PanormosC έφτιαξε έναν μοναδικό χάρτη της Βυζαντινής αυτοκρατορίας με τοπωνύμια του 9ου-11ου αιώνα, αναφορές στον Κωνσταντίνο Πορφυρογέννητο κλπ. Περισσότερα στο βίντεο. https://t.co/xvay5EyZzC
Byzantine Talesx.com
Vase, 1-200 BC #clevelandartmuseum #museumarchive https://t.co/Q6VIOdTw5o https://t.co/faJa40f3gZ
For these empire-builders, the vast grassy steppe that stretched across Eurasia from Manchuria to Hungary was an open road to commercial wealth and almost limitless power. The trading cities of the Near and Middle East were a natural target.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Thread 🧵on Byzantine Cyprus 🇨🇾
Cyprus under the Romans was a (relatively quiet) senatorial province with a tiny garrison.
However, when the Arabs under the Rashidun Caliphate swept over the Levant after 629 AD, Cyprus couldn't ward off the tides of war.
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Χάρτης της Τραπεζούντας επί Αλεξίου Γ' Μεγάλου Κομνηνού και των εμιράτων των Τουρκομάνων στα πέριξ αυτής το 1380 μ.Χ.
#Βυζάντιο https://t.co/uugxscslwr
Silk textile with motif of a Byzantine emperor on horseback (reverse side), end of the 10th century, most probably an imperial gift from Constantinople.
Bamberg - Diözesanmuseum. https://t.co/KGuT0SAkkz
At 1.675 million km2 the Byzantine Empire of 1025 AD was larger than:
The Holy Roman Empire
The Carolingian Empire
The Mauryan Empire
The Assyrian Empire
The Austro-Hungarian Empire
The Hunnic Empire
All at their height.... See more