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• Learning from the longevity of the Byzantine Empire

  
  disassociated.com — Authority: 442
  Seven key military strategies that saw the Byzantine – or Eastern Roman – empire stand for over one thousand years (although virtually all territory had been lost prior to 1453), that latter-day superpowers could learn from. Campaign vigorously, both offensively and defensively, but avoid battles, especially ...
  1 week ago

• Daily Links for November 14th through November 16th

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 126
  All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s). Take me back to Constantinople, by Edward Luttwak | Foreign Policy - Economic crisis, mounting national debt, excessive foreign commitments -- this is no way to run an empire. America needs serious strategic counseling. And fast. It has never been Rome, and to ...
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• Immigrants get 100,000 kroner Govt incentive to leave Denmark

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 124
  The Danish People’s Party (DF) has strengthened its immigration stance by securing an agreement to pay ‘anti-social’ foreigners 100,000 kroner to leave Denmark. Refugees and those who come to Denmark under family reunification schemes currently get 28,256 in repatriation support if they leave, of which 11,000 is ...
  2 weeks ago

• The root of it all

  
  2ndlook - View From A Square Prism — Authority: 387
  The principle of Cuius regio, eius religio provided for internal religious unity within a state: The religion of the prince became the religion of the state and all its inhabitants. Those inhabitants who could not conform to the prince’s religion were allowed to leave, an innovative idea in the 16th century; this ...
  2 weeks ago

• SAINT THEODORE “the Studite,” great Byzantine Abbot Doctor: ‘St. Theodore’s body was brought back to Constantinople in great triumph as champion of the holy images,’ 826

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 431
  ‘WE REVERENCE THE HOLY IMAGE, O BLESSED ONE. . . ‘   826 Saint Theodore called “ the Studite” after Studios , Constantinople’s leading monastery, which he revived, populated with over 700 monks, and launched on its period of maximum influence in studies, culture, and Church affairs. As the formost ...
  2 weeks ago

• Patriarch Bartholomew: We owe our hospitals to Byzantium

  
  Ellopos Blog — Authority: 110
  How many people know that the modern hospital originated in the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire? It is widely acknowledged that the first hospitals were created in Cappadocia, sometime around 370 A.D. by St. Basil, Bishop of Caesarea. There had been a tradition since Antiquity of maintaining ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Met Medieval

  
  The Errant sthete — Authority: 128
  This superbly carved portrait bust presents a pensive woman with a compelling gaze holding a scroll, the symbol of an educated person. The delicate, sensitive carving and the highly polished finish suggest that it was carved in Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire and, it would appear, a forward thinking ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kiva Han

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 650
  Where is the first coffee house in the world? Im told its a place called Kiva Han in the suburbs of Istanbul. Has anyone visited, seen, or discovered any details on the history or location of this place?
  3 weeks ago

• 1463: David of Trebizond and his heirs

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  On this date in 1463, the last regal claimants of Byzantium’s last successor state were executed in Constantinople. They were, by this time, two years deposed from actual power. David of Trebizond (aka David Comnenos) had inherited the enclave “empire” clinging to the Black Sea coast in 1459, and proved ...
  3 weeks ago

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