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@RomeInTheEast Avatar @RomeInTheEast ShadowsOfConstantinople

ShadowsOfConstantinople posts on X about hagia sophia, history, istanbul, if you the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social topic influence hagia sophia #26, history 3%, istanbul #312, if you 2%, ai 2%, greece #619, native #190, what is 2%, culture #1142, italy #407

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"If you are the Roman Emperor in Constantinople in 1452 what do you do to fix this situation"
X Link 2025-10-02T12:38Z 62.8K followers, 83.1K engagements

"Was Michael VIII Palaiologos a great emperor He did restore the Roman map to a brief sense of respectability - but dont judge a book by its cover. There are arguments both for and against his reign. While he liberated Constantinople from the Crusaders in 1261 (by luck) and some territory in Europe he did the Empire irreparable damage in the process and the damage is not to be measured only in economic or strategic terms. Economically his policy of appeasing the western powers and bribing their enemies was ruinous. His military policy though successful from the short-term point of view as"
X Link 2025-12-02T14:13Z 62.8K followers, 12.4K engagements

"The map on top shows the wealth of the Roman Empire in XXX Purple - the wealthiest red - wealthy orange - medium green - poor. It helps understand how the 12th century empire still had wealth. They possessed the most prosperous lands of Anatolia even after much was lost"
X Link 2025-12-03T17:49Z 62.8K followers, 14.5K engagements

"The Emirate of Sicily is relatively forgotten state but for a certain time in medieval history it was a state which inspired terror with its raids. Much like the Emirate of Crete"
X Link 2025-12-04T03:28Z 62.8K followers, 18.6K engagements

"Its happening If you could choose the period to set this new Medieval III Total War in what year would you choose"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:19Z 62.8K followers, 45.5K engagements

"@allyauteurs1138 @MemoryMedieval Pound for pound could even be the Hospitaller"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:16Z 62.8K followers, 4097 engagements

"@thejainafan The most impossible part is kicking Venice out of the Aegean"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:41Z 62.8K followers, XX engagements

"Constantinople"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:19Z 62.8K followers, 15K engagements

"@peter_sarris How come he doesnt have a crown"
X Link 2025-12-13T02:09Z 62.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Why did the Eastern Romans have so many civil wars It is because they never evolved a theory of imperial succession. A man became emperor by the will of God his election was signaled by acclamation on the part of the army and the senate and confirmed from the 5th century onwards by a religious coronation performed by the Patriarch of Constantinople. It was a combination of elements which worked different at different times and an emperor could lose legitimacy even if these mechanisms brought him to power. This could work smoothly at times it could be useful to remove bad emperors as well but"
X Link 2025-12-01T21:39Z 62.8K followers, 86.2K engagements

"@Max_the_Pilgrim AI modified using a picture I found on Pinterest and a photo of the Hagia Sophia"
X Link 2025-12-03T18:56Z 62.8K followers, XXX engagements

"The Mace is a very underrated medieval weapon"
X Link 2025-12-05T01:36Z 62.8K followers, 6831 engagements

"@omega_theta_ Both did the difference is in 1204 there was a lot more there to sack. And the Ottomans invested in the city afterwards unlike the Crusaders who did very little of that"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:24Z 62.8K followers, 4075 engagements

"@nonregemesse I think some people have no empathy for others but do have said preservation. Do you believe thered be the same amount of murder if it was legal to do so I dont"
X Link 2025-12-11T15:11Z 62.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@MemoryMedieval @cagiago_ We wuz Salah I guess"
X Link 2025-12-12T16:40Z 62.8K followers, 1158 engagements

"There are still crosses above the entrance to the Hagia Sophia subtly there a reminder of the original Christian purpose of the building. Probably most people dont even notice the obscure detail between the buttresses"
X Link 2025-12-01T14:52Z 62.8K followers, 19.8K engagements

"An old picture of the Boukoleon Palace of Constantinople"
X Link 2025-12-02T01:58Z 62.8K followers, 12.1K engagements

"Ludwig II of Bavaria commissioned the concept of a palace inspired by the architecture of Constantinople. This illustration from 1885 shows what he had in mind though ultimately the project never came to be"
X Link 2025-12-04T12:55Z 62.8K followers, 14.2K engagements

"@nonregemesse The only real argument one can make is that the state in Nicaea was not the same state that existed as in 1204 and before and they can say there wasnt enough.m continuity between the two. It all hinges on how you weigh the continuity"
X Link 2025-12-04T15:19Z 62.8K followers, 2107 engagements

"How was Anatolia Turkified One demographic instrument was Seljuk men often taking Christian wives and concubines from the Roman population in Anatolia. The children would be raised Muslim even with Christian mothers and over time this contribute to a one way ethnic shift 🧵"
X Link 2025-11-09T15:46Z 62.8K followers, 858.9K engagements

"You can still see the spiral staircase that once led to the top of the Column of Arcadius in the ruins of its base"
X Link 2025-11-26T18:06Z 62.8K followers, 925.7K engagements

"The Port of Carthage"
X Link 2025-11-29T12:43Z 62.8K followers, 295K engagements

"The Roman Empire stands alone as a major empire in how much the people it conquered bought into it. After centuries of Roman rule previously conquered peoples bought into the idea of being Roman from Britain to Egypt. Most other empires failed in creating that kind of society"
X Link 2025-11-30T13:41Z 62.8K followers, 26K engagements

"When the Avar army arrived in front of Constantinople in XXX the terrified inhabitants watched the closed ranks of the barbarians demonstratively marching in shiny armour. The Patriarch Sergios responded and organized a spectacular procession along the city walls on the same day. In the presence of the clergy and the majority of the population he showed the enemy an image of Christ the Saviour. Source - The Avar Siege of Constantinople in 626: History and Legend by Martin Hurbanic"
X Link 2025-12-01T17:29Z 62.8K followers, 14.6K engagements

"When emperors sailed across the Bosphorus into Asia Minor to lead campaigns they said a prayer for God to protect Constantinople: When the emperor is a sufficient distance from the imperial harbour so that he can look upon the city he rises from his couch and stands looking eastwards with his hands raised to heaven; and making the sign of the cross three times with his hand over the city he prays to God and says: 'Lord Jesus Christ my God I place in Your hands this Your city This comes from the Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos and his Three Treatises on Imperial Military Expeditions"
X Link 2025-12-03T14:08Z 62.8K followers, 12.2K engagements

"This map shows the area of Roman Constantinople the original ancient city within the context of the modern sprawling city of Istanbul"
X Link 2025-12-03T20:03Z 62.8K followers, 17.9K engagements

"A beautiful illustration of the Hagia Sophia to help imagine it during its time as the Great Church of Constantinople"
X Link 2025-12-04T15:44Z 62.8K followers, 16.5K engagements

"The Forum of Constantine"
X Link 2025-12-05T12:23Z 62.8K followers, 10.8K engagements

"Was Justinians handling of the Nika riots justified to you"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:13Z 62.8K followers, 10.2K engagements

"An old illustration of what remained in the past of the Roman city walls of the once proud city of Antioch. Today theres few traces left of this once important place"
X Link 2025-12-06T22:56Z 62.8K followers, 7900 engagements

"The entry of Mehmed II into Constantinople"
X Link 2025-12-08T01:43Z 62.8K followers, 17.2K engagements

"Crazy that many people go through life seeing the world like this"
X Link 2025-12-08T18:51Z 62.8K followers, 30.7K engagements

"The beautiful 15th century Pantanassa Monastery in Mystras Greece"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:41Z 62.8K followers, 14K engagements

"A photo I took when I visited Istanbul of a beautiful medieval column capital in the Chora Monastery with an angel and a cross"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:23Z 62.8K followers, 10.1K engagements

"Theres a harsh reality that the Native American tribes in what is now the US never had a chance to keep their way of life and culture intact after contact with ANY of the other advanced civilizations Whether it was China Ottomans Europeans etc. All would have caused disease and all would here wanted to use the land the same way. All civilized societies then were agrarian and wanted to use the land for agriculture have towns cities and villages. The Natives as occurred in history would have gotten into conflict due to their own way of using the land and their own claim to it. The same cycle"
X Link 2025-12-10T14:49Z 62.8K followers, 21.6K engagements

"@sharghzadeh @grok what is the Turkish unemployment rate compared to Greece"
X Link 2025-12-10T14:53Z 62.8K followers, 18K engagements

"Imagine what might have been if Michael VIII or a capable successor had been able to liberate a more cohesive territory like this"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:09Z 62.8K followers, 19.2K engagements

"@MemoryMedieval 1500 - could be the Ottomans as well"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:04Z 62.8K followers, 155.3K engagements

"Imagine being such an Islamic supremacist that you believe the best Greeks could ever aspire to was being your slave.and that they should be thankful for it Disgusting And how did someone who refers to Muslims enslaving Christians as beautiful end up in the United States"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:31Z 62.8K followers, 47K engagements

"A photo of Constantinople (Konstantiniyye) at the end of the Ottoman era in 1918 Colorized"
X Link 2025-12-11T12:02Z 62.8K followers, 32.2K engagements

"@neyledinenes Yea but those arent the most impressive engineering marvels of the Hagia Sophia. They are add on structures"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:12Z 62.8K followers, 1256 engagements

"@Helen_SA2 In the 6th century Hellene was a stigmatized term due to pagan connotations"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:25Z 62.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Interesting demography"
X Link 2025-12-13T01:05Z 62.8K followers, 68.8K engagements

"@ParrAmos @maxiixam_ Yea Ive been called by a small but loud group of Greek nationalists as a secret Turk a secret Albanian a secret Slav (North Macedonia) a CIA operative Zionist. All purely based on using this term. Even though their ancestors (and mine Im 1/2 greek) would agree with me"
X Link 2025-12-13T18:13Z 62.8K followers, XX engagements

"Cattolica di Stilo a 9th century Eastern Roman church in the Calabria region of southern Italy"
X Link 2025-12-13T23:35Z 62.8K followers, 7873 engagements

"Despite it being a pagan text the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer was always still read in Eastern Roman society. It was part of education as it was still revered as a literary masterpiece of the Greek language. They valued and appreciated it and that is why we still have it"
X Link 2025-12-02T16:15Z 62.8K followers, 32.3K engagements

"Whats something about Roman history that you think deserves more attention"
X Link 2025-12-04T17:31Z 62.8K followers, 3.6M engagements

"A Dromon warship spewing liquid fire or Greek fire - the most famous weapon of the Eastern Roman Empire"
X Link 2025-12-05T16:50Z 62.8K followers, 24.3K engagements

"The Hippodrome of Constantinople"
X Link 2025-12-05T21:03Z 62.8K followers, 20.2K engagements

"The former Monastery of Christ Pantepoptes in Constantinople today known as Eski Imaret Mosque in Istanbul. It was founded in the late 11th century by the mother of Emperor Alexios Komnenos Anna Dalassene"
X Link 2025-12-07T01:27Z 62.8K followers, 14.5K engagements

"Did the Eastern Roman state act as an imperialist power No its not really a plausible notion. Nearly all of their conquests were just reconquests of territory lost to invaders. The graph shows their territorial decline and illustrates the fact they were mostly defensive"
X Link 2025-12-08T13:24Z 62.8K followers, 9416 engagements

"Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:56Z 62.8K followers, 38.5K engagements

"Constantinople"
X Link 2025-12-09T03:48Z 62.8K followers, 13.3K engagements

"What can you do"
X Link 2025-12-09T13:19Z 62.8K followers, 87.7K engagements

"Someone needs to make a movie or series about the Romans fighting the Persians"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:20Z 62.8K followers, 250.7K engagements

"The 10th century was a good time for the medieval Roman Empire"
X Link 2025-12-11T20:40Z 62.8K followers, 12K engagements

"What should I make a thread about"
X Link 2025-12-12T00:28Z 62.8K followers, 4390 engagements

"Medieval III: Total War concept art"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:15Z 62.8K followers, 72.3K engagements

"How do you feel about this"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:31Z 62.8K followers, 3875 engagements

"@SmartRandomGuy Italy doesnt have a native Muslim population either"
X Link 2025-12-12T15:05Z 62.8K followers, 57.4K engagements

"@gorchbey2 @SmartRandomGuy Not sure why - presumably some political point I suppose"
X Link 2025-12-12T16:09Z 62.8K followers, 4818 engagements

"Without AI Without computers Without internet Without calculators Without CAD Without backhoes Without bulldozers Without gas engines In the 6th century the Romans built this:"
X Link 2025-12-12T16:38Z 62.8K followers, 51.1K engagements

"@3rab_vision The Arabs erased the cultures in many lands - doesnt pass the history test"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:54Z 62.8K followers, 6066 engagements

"The problem with this as a movie or show for me is that it would almost certainly be made in a way that reinforces the pop culture narrative of the Romans in media as akin the Empire from Star Wars. And the barbarians are always depicted as just and egalitarian freedom fighters"
X Link 2025-12-13T21:06Z 62.8K followers, 8830 engagements

"@AbuHafsah1 It did not but thankfully westerners have done real research and archaeology unlike whatever crap youre getting this from"
X Link 2025-12-13T21:56Z 62.8K followers, 24K engagements

"The last Roman Emperor was Constantine XI Palaiologos"
X Link 2025-12-14T01:26Z 62.8K followers, 16.4K engagements