@ProudBavaria Depende, con lo fácil que es conquistar a veces escojo el de extender el señorío. Y muy de vez en cuando, si no me veo con ganas de expandirme, escojo el de construir edificios
@SerenoRosa1 Opino igual que tú, siempre me ha gustado Heraclio. Sobre todo por su reinado tan agridulce. De alcanzar el trono tras el nefasto reinado de Focas y salvar al imperio de los persas para verse finalmente impotente en sus últimos años contra los musulmanes… Simplemente maravilloso
La politización de Felipe VI es ineludible cuando se trata de un hecho que sacude a España como la entrada de más de 70.000 migrantes procedentes de Marruecos. Las fronteras de Ceuta y Melilla se han convertido en escenario de reproches hacia el Palacio de la Zarzuela. Un fenómeno que, lejos de reflejar una adecuada educación constitucional, vuelve a poner de manifiesto la desinformación existente sobre la Norma Fundamental de nuestro país. El Rey no puede actuar por iniciativa propia, pues siempre debe hacerlo con la aprobación del Gobierno de turno.
Haciendo referencia a la Constitución, la actuación del Monarca dentro de España queda delimitada en varios aspectos. El artículo 62 de la Constitución Española (CE) establece que corresponde al Rey sancionar las leyes, convocar y disolver las Cortes, así como proponer y nombrar al presidente del Gobierno. No obstante, todo ello se desarrolla bajo el refrendo del Palacio de la Moncloa, tal y como dispone el artículo 64 de la CE, que establece que los actos del Rey deben ser refrendados por el presidente del Gobierno o por los ministros competentes —y, en casos específicos, como la propuesta de investidura o la disolución de las Cámaras, por el presidente del Congreso—. Por ello, el Rey, como Monarca constitucional de una monarquía parlamentaria, no puede desplazarse por decisión propia a lugares determinados, como las zonas afectadas, ni dirigir mensajes a la Nación sin la autorización del Gobierno. Todo ello es consecuencia de que, como recoge el artículo 97 de la CE, corresponde al Gobierno dirigir la política interior y exterior, la Administración civil y militar y la defensa del Estado, por lo que cualquier actuación autónoma del Rey en este ámbito quedaría fuera del marco constitucional. Ahora bien, como muchos se preguntan, ¿qué ocurriría si el Rey decidiera actuar por iniciativa propia sin la autorización de la Moncloa? En ese supuesto, se abriría una crisis institucional sin precedentes que podría desembocar en su inhabilitación, Art. 59.2 CE.
Del mismo modo, como mencionaba al principio, los discursos institucionales también son aprobados por el Palacio de la Moncloa. Por ello, el Rey no puede dirigir comunicación institucional alguna sin la autorización previa del Ejecutivo, tal y como establece la Constitución. El actual Monarca ha pronunciado hasta la fecha dos discursos extraordinarios a lo largo de sus doce años de reinado: el del 3 de octubre de 2017, con motivo del referéndum ilegal separatista celebrado en Cataluña, y el de marzo de 2020, tras la declaración del estado de alarma con motivo de la pandemia de COVID-19. Sin embargo, la difusión de mensajes basados en la desinformación vuelve a situar al Palacio de la Zarzuela como principal objetivo de unas decisiones cuya responsabilidad corresponde al Gobierno | Imagen: Casa de S.M el Rey.
@SerenoRosa1 Me encanta Bizancio, tengo un montón de libros en la estantería referentes al mundo bizantino: la triología de John Julius Norwich, “Bizancio” de Judith Herrin, “Un mar verde y púrpura” de Carlos Martínez y“Breve Historia del Imperio Bizantino” de Nowtilus entre otros
On June 10, 1329 Andronikos III failed in a desperate effort to save Anatolia from Turkish invasion, at the Battle of Pelekanon!
Andronikos III had to fight, in the first battle between a Roman Emperor and an Ottoman Sultan!
A tragic defeat for the Romans 🧵
Es bastante patético ver al mismo señor que boicoteó los funerales de la pandemia, Adamuz o la Dana pegándose ahora al Papa, que juega en otra liga moral.
Sin necesidad de que diga su nombre, todo el mundo sabe de quién hablo.
Los Reyes han saludado a Su Santidad el Papa León XIV en el Pabellón de Estado del Aeropuerto Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, donde ha sido recibido con motivo de su Visita a España.
➡️https://t.co/6k3JzwbwyF
@uniquemoviemom Totalmente cierto, creo que es de mis personajes favoritos de la saga. Tanto su forma de ser como su estética hacen que sea un villano ideal.
The Church of the Holy Apostles is a lost treasure. It was arguably the 2nd greatest church of Constantinople and had the imperial mausoleums. It is gone but it does seem like there are small fragments left of it!
There is evidence of some foundations of the Holy Apostles both above and underground still, not the whole building but some foundations filled with rubble and built over. Scholar Julian Raby adds “whether there are, indeed, remains of Constantine’s tomb under it in the vicinity of the Mihrab of Mehmed’s Mosque can only be established definitely through excavation or a non invasive geophysical survey. Until then we have to rely on inference...” If any part of Constantine’s mausoleum still existed that would be quite a find.
In 2002 an article was published. It was called - New evidence for the Byzantine Church of the Holy Apostles from Fatih Camii, Istanbul - its abstract states: “The mausolea of Constantine the Great and of Justinian I were in the complex surrounding this vast cruciform church. Nothing of this complex appeared to have survived its demolition to clear the site of the Ottoman mosque complex of Fatih Camii after 1461. Fieldwork in 2001 recorded walls pre–dating the fifteenth–century phase of the mosque complex, still standing above ground level and apparently including a large rectilinear structure. This is identified as the Church of the Holy Apostles and an adjacent enclosure may be that containing the mausoleum of Constantine the Great.”
It is fairly clear Mehmed built Fatih Camii over the Holy Apostles to symbolize a new Islamic age for Constantinople, and putting his mihrab over Constantine’s mausoleum would symbolize him founding a new Ottoman capital of the foundations of Constantine’s city. It seems part of the mosque lie directly on top of visible foundations of the Holy Apostles, there is likely more waiting to be found too. Let’s hope more is found one day!
Some images are attached in posts below which show some remnants!
Source: The Holy Apostles: A Lost Monument, a Forgotten Project, and the Presentness of the Past (multi-author)
Bottom right image by Alfredo Calahorra
On May 28, 1453 the Ottomans were resting for a final assault, “there was an ominous silence.”
I wonder what went through the mind of Constantine XI Palaiologos as he processed the fact that “the only hope left,” a “promised fleet from Venice,” wasn’t coming. Allegedly “Constantine broke down and wept” but also looked to God and the Theotokos for divine aid!
“The hope was dashed when a Venetian ship that had slipped out (ran through the Ottoman blockade) to reconnoitre came back to report that no fleet was to be seen.” To be honest, you must give credit to these scouts. They easily could have decided not to go back to Constantinople once they realized no fleet was coming, but they did their duty.
“The whole of Christendom, it seems, had deserted him in his fight against the enemies of the Cross. He committed himself and his city to the mercy of Christ, His Mother, and the first Christian Emperor, the holy Constantine the Great.” Naturally “the news that they would fight alone must have unnerved some of his Italian allies. Violence broke out among the Genoese and Venetian defenders.” Constantine, as shocked and full of sorrow as he when he heard the news, steeled his nerve and intervened “to remind them that they had a more important conflict on their hands.”
Constantine likely felt fear, resentment, and anger at the events around him. He was paying the debt of his Palaiologan ancestors whom had overseen the decline of the Roman state - but he did what he could. “Constantine commanded that the most venerable icon of the Mother of God, protectress of the city, should be brought out and carried in procession around the streets.” In the final days and hours both Orthodox and Catholics “forgot their differences as they joined together in hymns and prayers.”
Constantine went to the Hagia Sophia to “pray and ask forgiveness and remission of his sins from every bishop present before receiving communion at the altar. The priest who gave the sacrament could not have known that he was administering the last rites” to the last ever Roman Emperor. Nor that it was the last time an Emperor would step in the Great Church. Constantine then “went back to his palace at Blachernai to ask for forgiveness from his household and bid them farewell before riding into the night to make a final inspection of his soldiers at the wall.”
And soon after on May 29 the final battle for the City occurred, and then the life of the Emperor and the Empire was all over.
Source - The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans by Donald M. Nicol
Yesterday the Palace of the Despots at Mystras in Greece was reopened after restoration.
The palace was the residence of the rulers of the Despotate of the Morea, the last province of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Peloponnese. Constantine XI ruled here before becoming emperor.