#byzantine — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #byzantine, aggregated by home.social.
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Countries Which Have At Some Point Claimed To Be Rome’s Successor [mapping / Third Rome]
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https://brilliantmaps.com/third-rome/ <-- shared technical / history article
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_of_the_Roman_Empire <-- shared Third Rome wiki page
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“The [first] map… shows which countries have claimed to be the successor to the Roman Empire at some point in their history (the so-called Third Rome). Learn more about each [in this article]…”
#ThirdRome #RomanEmpire #Rome #successor #map #mapping #spatial #empire #civilisation #turkey #russia #byzantine #bulguria #serbia #greece #germany #austria #france #italy #history #ancienthistory #historiography #BrillantMaps
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Allegedly, #Prighozhin’s march on #Moscow has ended in a deal brokered by #Lukashenko, in which #Wagner Group forces will head to #Belarus and … become Lukashenko’s #Varangian Guard, or something? Assuming of course #Putin doesn’t wait for them to get strung out on the road and bomb them all to bits.
I can’t help but be struck by how antiquated all this feels. The Varangian Guard reference above is deliberate—the whole thing is #Byzantine in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of #Belisarius and #Justinian. Yes, I know I’m mixing up periods, and the analogy is inexact in all kinds of ways: history doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.
#Kings and #emperors and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way #modern states make #war—even though #Ukraine may well be the first modern war of the twenty-first century, through future eyes. Something older, more visceral, rising from ancient slumber.
Hell of a time to be alive. I suppose that’s always true.
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I am a fan of #Viking history, and learned a couple of years ago that the #Varangian #Rus' presence was not limited to being the #VarangianGuard of the #Byzantine emperor.
Apart from that, in my understanding #Sveinald #Ingvarsson's (Sviatoslav I, aka #Sviatoslav the Brave, Grand Prince of #Kiev*) fascinating...