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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 1h

Mosaic of the Koimesis (“falling asleep”) of the Virgin Mary at Chora/Kariye Camii

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 1h

A short video on the Koimesis (“falling asleep”) of the Virgin Mary at Chora/Kariye Camii youtu.be/2nxqS9eh0rs

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Dormition of the Virgin Mary at Chora

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

11th-century marble icon of the Virgin Mary at Istanbul Archaeological Museums

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mosaic of a youthful Christ, dressed as a warrior emperor, trampling a lion and serpent. The Latin inscription comes the Gospel of John 14:6: “Ego sum via veritas et vita” (“I am the way, the truth, and the life”) In the Cappella Arcivescovile (Archbishop's Chapel) from the cathedral of Ravenna

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ruins of the “Cistern of Justinian” at Fenerbahçe/Kadıköy This large cistern was rediscovered in 2016 (it was documented in the previous century). It probably supplied water to the nearby Palace of Hiereia (on Fenerbahçe Peninsula), which was built by Emperor Justinian in the 6th century .

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Cistern of Justinian” at Fenerbahçe/Kadıköy This large cistern was rediscovered in 2016. It probably supplied water to the nearby Palace of Hiereia once located on the Fenerbahçe Peninsula. This palace was built by Emperor Justinian in the 6th century and later embellished by other emperors.

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Emperor Heraclius defeating Sasanian Persian king Khosrow II and cherub depicted in a enamel plague from a cross from the Meuse Valley in France 1160-1170 Now at the Louvre

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“La Ville et le Port de Constantinople” from Guillaume-Joseph Grelot (1680)

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Monastery of Hosios Meletios in Central Greece The monastery was founded around 1081 by St. Meletios the Younger. When he was around 15, he ran away from his home in Cappadocia to avoid an arranged marriage. He visited Rome, and then stayed three years in Palestine, visiting the Holy Sites in ...

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Alahan Monastery consists of ruins of a 5th-century monastic complex in the mountains of Isauria (modern Mersin Province) built during the reign of Emperor Leo I and expanded by Emperor Zeno who was from the region.

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The fortress of Lopadion (modern Uluabat/Bursa) was built by Emperor John II Komnenos around 1130.

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Preview of a video on Lopadion (modern Uluabat/Bursa), an important medieval walled town and military camp that was occasionally the residence of Byzantine emperors. youtu.be/se_V52NrQ2o Check out full video on Patreon www.patreon.com/cw/thebyzant...

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The History of Lopadion (preview)

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Vue de la Place de l'Hyppodrôme” The Hippodrome area as depicted in 𝐴𝑡𝑙𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 by Charles Pertusier (1817)

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Vue des Murs à Tchatladi-Capou” Sébah & Joaillier (c. 1890s) Old photo of Çatladıkapı, Boukoleon Palace and the Marmara Sea

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Queen of Cities (modern Istanbul, historic Constantinople/Byzantion) is surrounded by the Golden Horn, the Bosphorus, and the Sea of Marmara Photos taken before sunset yesterday

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hagia Sophia, which was inaugurated by Justinian in 537 five years after the second (Theodosian) version burned down during the Nika Riots of 532

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Decorative marble soffits from Justinian's Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, now Küçük Ayasofya Camii

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

St. David of Thessaloniki in Chora/Kariye Camii Like Orthodox saints known as stylites (ascetic monks, who followed St. Symeon the Stylite in living on columns), St. David was a 6th-century dendrite - living in an almond tree for three years.

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Inscription of Emperor Romanos (II or III) from Tower 4 of the Theodosian Walls “Romanos, the Great Emperor of all the Romans, the most Great, erected this tower new from the foundations”. “This tower was built by Kelarios (?)”

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Transfiguration of Christ at the 6th-century Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe, the port of Ravenna Its apse mosaic has a bust of Christ depicted in a large jeweled cross flanked Elijah and Moses. Below are three lambs representing saints Peter, James and John.

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

General view of İznik/historic Nicaea from ruins of the Berberkaya Tomb

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“General view of Nicaea” From Léon de Laborde (1838)

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reused inscriptions from the Theodosian Walls, built to protect 5th-century Constantinople and repeatedly restored, rebuilt, and reconstructed throughout the centuries.

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hagia Sophia, the Golden Horn, and Topkapı Palace, once the site of the acropolis of Byzantion From a panel of the Panorama of Constantinople by Henry Aston Barker (1813)

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hyperpyron of Manuel I Komnenos (1143-1180) Minted in Constantinople At Dumbarton Oaks www.doaks.org/resources/on...

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Middle Byzantine slabs with crosses at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Zeyrek Mosque, formerly the imperial Constantinopolitan Monastery of Christ Pantokrator, was built by John Komnenos and Eirene (Piroska of Hungary) between 1118-1136.

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Video on the Legends of Gül Camii (“Rose Mosque”), said to be the burial of the last emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos youtu.be/Bo6iyO8-gOc This is a self-funded project, so please consider supporting my work documenting Byzantine cultural heritage sites on Patreon

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Gül Camii: Legends of the “Rose Mosque”

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy "Byzantine New Year" 7535 September 1, 7535 (2026) celebrates to day and year of creation and marks the Ecclesiastical New Year (according to the New Calendar)

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hagia Sophia and a seagull over the Marmara Sea at sunset

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Aerial view of Hilandar monastery (Slobodan Nenadović Collection of Drawings and Photographs of Hilandar Monastery) The Princeton and Mount Athos Legacy: Connecting Histories athoslegacy.project.princeton.edu

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Numerous Late Antique sarcophagi can be found around Ravenna, the last capital of the Western Roman Empire. Ravenna was later the capital of Byzantine Italy after it was recaptured by Justinian.

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Anicia Juliana flanked by Megalopsychia (Magnanimity) and Phronesis (Wisdom) from the early 6th-century Vienna Dioscurides Today is the first day of the International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Vienna

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Walls of İznik/historic Nicaea Check out new photo album on Flickr Walls of Nicaea/İznik with over 1000 photos www.flickr.com/photos/byzan...

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Gold cups with a bull's head 19th-century copy of the Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós, often claimed to be an 8th-century Avar treasure At the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest Photos taken today

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Holy Crown of Hungary Today is the feast of St. Stephen I of Hungary Photos by Károly Szelényi

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Aquincum was a Roman city on the Danube in Óbuda, a northern district of modern Budapest, Hungary Late Antique tetraconch church, Military Amphitheater (next to military camp), Civil Amphitheater (next to Aquincum walls), and aqueduct of Aquincum Photos from recent visits

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Rock-cut monastery of St. Nicholas at Tihany, Hungary Photos from recent visit It was built sometime before 1055 during the reign of the Hungarian king Andrew I. Orthodox hermits established it in connection with the Kievan Rus' Anastasia, wife of Andrew I.

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Ruins of Romanesque basilica of St. Adrian in Zalavár (historic Mosaburg), Hungary

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Crosses from the 5th-century Kumarlıdere, an aqueduct bridge from the long-distance water supply system that brought water to Constantinople from over 120 km away Photos from visit today

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

First Council of Constantinople depicted in the 9th-century Paris Gregory at the BnF in Paris. The First Council of Constantinople was convened by Theodosius I in 381.

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Mosaic of Emperor Alexander in Hagia Sophia

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Video on the Column of the Goths This is a self-funded project, so please consider supporting my work on Patreon youtu.be/TOCD6xVO66U

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The Column of the Goths

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Maiden’s Tower (Kız Kulesi) Photos from earlier this week

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Church of St. Nicholas at Kampinari in Mani (Southern Greece) It was built in the Middle Byzantine era (perhaps 10th century) and restored in the 14th century.

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