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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Only a Poor Old Man, post: 7548559, member: 111037&quot;]It certainly is, and I encourage more of you to add more interesting Byzantine trivia. I was going to touch upon Constantinople at some point, but not sure when. I think she deserves a chapter of her own. Not many people realise how magnificent she was. &#039;<i>one could not believe there was so rich a city in all the world</i>&#039; said the crusader Villehardouin in &#039;De la Conquête de Constantinople&#039;. But it was not only about Constantinople. Cities like Thessalonika, Antioch, Alexandria, were more advanced and cosmopolitan than any of their western contemporaries.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a coin minted there. Let&#039;s also fill this thread with beautiful Byzantines, including art, hagiography, and anything else you can think of.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1302382[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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