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# ![@RomeInTheEast Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1336039822151086080.png) @RomeInTheEast ShadowsOfConstantinople

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

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[hagia sophia](/topic/hagia-sophia) #10, [history](/topic/history) #5440, [ai](/topic/ai) #5987, [lands](/topic/lands) 2.04%, [what is](/topic/what-is) 2.04%, [greece](/topic/greece) #583, [native](/topic/native) #54, [if you](/topic/if-you) 2.04%, [istanbul](/topic/istanbul) #397, [built in](/topic/built-in) XXXX%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"The ruins of Alahan Monastery a 5th century Roman church built in Isauria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1994986783595987267)  2025-11-30T04:28Z 62.8K followers, 10.8K engagements


"How do you feel about this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999487334040104966)  2025-12-12T14:31Z 62.8K followers, 3702 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1996563914104905974)  2025-12-04T12:55Z 62.8K followers, 14.2K engagements


"A beautiful illustration of the Hagia Sophia to help imagine it during its time as the Great Church of Constantinople"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1996606588874854610)  2025-12-04T15:44Z 62.8K followers, 16.5K engagements


"The Mace is a very underrated medieval weapon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1996755572201562551)  2025-12-05T01:36Z 62.8K followers, 6827 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999519239569318296)  2025-12-12T16:38Z 62.8K followers, 46.3K engagements


"The Port of Carthage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1994749132183842867)  2025-11-29T12:43Z 62.8K followers, 294.9K engagements


"@Max_the_Pilgrim AI modified using a picture I found on Pinterest and a photo of the Hagia Sophia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1996292527855452667)  2025-12-03T18:56Z 62.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Constantinople"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998238339200409932)  2025-12-09T03:48Z 62.8K followers, 13.3K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998802209740652583)  2025-12-10T17:09Z 62.8K followers, 19.1K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999134917792244001)  2025-12-11T15:11Z 62.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@gorchbey2 @SmartRandomGuy Not sure why - presumably some political point I suppose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999511863004975216)  2025-12-12T16:09Z 62.8K followers, 4234 engagements


"@neyledinenes Yea but those arent the most impressive engineering marvels of the Hagia Sophia. They are add on structures"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999542822702096675)  2025-12-12T18:12Z 62.8K followers, 1166 engagements


"@3rab_vision The Arabs erased the cultures in many lands - doesnt pass the history test"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999553443707371601)  2025-12-12T18:54Z 62.8K followers, 5690 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1995506181104910575)  2025-12-01T14:52Z 62.8K followers, 19.8K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1995858810712330398)  2025-12-02T14:13Z 62.8K followers, 12.4K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1996421253167448482)  2025-12-04T03:28Z 62.8K followers, 18.6K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1996600362518675473)  2025-12-04T15:19Z 62.8K followers, 2106 engagements


"Was Justinians handling of the Nika riots justified to you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1997338595061879002)  2025-12-06T16:13Z 62.8K followers, 10.2K engagements


"The Eastern Roman Empire in 1341"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1997704429534068798)  2025-12-07T16:27Z 62.8K followers, 16.4K engagements


"@thejainafan The most impossible part is kicking Venice out of the Aegean"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998825466615267578)  2025-12-10T18:41Z 62.8K followers, XX 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1995125961994481681)  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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1995545705499558100)  2025-12-01T17:29Z 62.8K followers, 14.6K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1995608773814272078)  2025-12-01T21:39Z 62.8K followers, 86.2K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1996219948373324201)  2025-12-03T14:08Z 62.8K followers, 12.2K engagements


"Whats something about Roman history that you think deserves more attention"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1996633561575915719)  2025-12-04T17:31Z 62.8K followers, 3.6M engagements


"The entry of Mehmed II into Constantinople"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1997844419064778913)  2025-12-08T01:43Z 62.8K followers, 17.1K engagements


"Crazy that many people go through life seeing the world like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998103095528890520)  2025-12-08T18:51Z 62.8K followers, 30.6K engagements


"Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998164692230160745)  2025-12-08T22:56Z 62.8K followers, 13.3K engagements


"What can you do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998381869394501744)  2025-12-09T13:19Z 62.8K followers, 86.9K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998398459443827180)  2025-12-09T14:24Z 62.8K followers, 4071 engagements


"@sharghzadeh @grok what is the Turkish unemployment rate compared to Greece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998767962027634765)  2025-12-10T14:53Z 62.8K followers, 17.8K engagements


"@MemoryMedieval 1500 - could be the Ottomans as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998816031553225193)  2025-12-10T18:04Z 62.8K followers, 154.7K engagements


"Someone needs to make a movie or series about the Romans fighting the Persians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998835109768695822)  2025-12-10T19:20Z 62.8K followers, 231.4K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998837950671425968)  2025-12-10T19:31Z 62.8K followers, 46.6K engagements


"A photo of Constantinople (Konstantiniyye) at the end of the Ottoman era in 1918 Colorized"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999087306637238626)  2025-12-11T12:02Z 62.8K followers, 31.9K engagements


"What should I make a thread about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999275082347348242)  2025-12-12T00:28Z 62.8K followers, 4282 engagements


"Constantinople"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999318287151432130)  2025-12-12T03:19Z 62.8K followers, 14.3K engagements


"Medieval III: Total War concept art"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999483175194755402)  2025-12-12T14:15Z 62.8K followers, 60.3K engagements


"@SmartRandomGuy Italy doesnt have a native Muslim population either"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999495810472648767)  2025-12-12T15:05Z 62.8K followers, 50.3K engagements


"Interesting demography"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999646927248388443)  2025-12-13T01:05Z 62.8K followers, 43.1K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1996275531445121384)  2025-12-03T17:49Z 62.8K followers, 14.5K engagements


"The Hippodrome of Constantinople"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1997049121132130601)  2025-12-05T21:03Z 62.8K followers, 20K engagements


"If you are the Roman Emperor in Constantinople in 1452 what do you do to fix this situation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1973729252865659196)  2025-10-02T12:38Z 62.8K followers, 83.1K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1996660688706850852)  2025-12-04T19:19Z 62.8K followers, 45.5K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1987547283542483281)  2025-11-09T15:46Z 62.8K followers, 858.1K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1993743121180737727)  2025-11-26T18:06Z 62.8K followers, 925.6K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1995889533783601378)  2025-12-02T16:15Z 62.8K followers, 31.9K engagements


"A Dromon warship spewing liquid fire or Greek fire - the most famous weapon of the Eastern Roman Empire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1996985464373322179)  2025-12-05T16:50Z 62.8K followers, 24.3K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1997440000166609140)  2025-12-06T22:56Z 62.8K followers, 7876 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1997478051463180801)  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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998020829486162116)  2025-12-08T13:24Z 62.8K followers, 9383 engagements


"The beautiful 15th century Pantanassa Monastery in Mystras Greece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998417603023528259)  2025-12-09T15:41Z 62.8K followers, 13.9K 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998473490215874879)  2025-12-09T19:23Z 62.8K followers, 9986 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](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998767046738186311)  2025-12-10T14:49Z 62.8K followers, 21.6K engagements


"@allyauteurs1138 @MemoryMedieval Pound for pound could even be the Hospitaller"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1998819016933077179)  2025-12-10T18:16Z 62.8K followers, 4096 engagements


"The 10th century was a good time for the medieval Roman Empire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999217811563118881)  2025-12-11T20:40Z 62.8K followers, 11.8K engagements


"@MemoryMedieval @cagiago_ We wuz Salah I guess"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999519740369293759)  2025-12-12T16:40Z 62.8K followers, 1144 engagements


"@Helen_SA2 In the 6th century Hellene was a stigmatized term due to pagan connotations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999576287728279778)  2025-12-12T20:25Z 62.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@peter_sarris How come he doesnt have a crown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RomeInTheEast/status/1999662966250127421)  2025-12-13T02:09Z 62.8K followers, XXX engagements