Ethan_jcm

Lugdunum 📍

Roman Empire Enthusiast

[Les Mileistes Français 🦁🇫🇷 @Mileistesfr]

Il fait chaud à cause du petit trait vert qui refuse de descendre à zéro.

[Ethan_jcm @Ethan7110]

@ScouTurk Barbarians are defeated, Constantinople is the next step

[yosoymario @yosoymario91]

Viking raider chasing a panicked Muslim defender through the streets of Seville, 844 AD al-Andalus

[The Medieval Scholar @MedievalScholar]

The raid on Lindisfarne, June 8th 793

[Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @TrueSlazac]

Roman centurion meeting a native Briton, 43 AD

[ShadowsOfConstantinople @RomeInTheEast]

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

[Ethan_jcm @Ethan7110]

@ActuFoot_ @ligue3_fff Très fasciste comme trophée, il est validé

[Faucon Alpin 🏔️ @VraiconAlpin]

573ans...

[Scythian Pervert @EuropeErwacht]

The Nazis at Nürnberg didn’t beg for mercy before they were executed. Neither did Mussolini or Saddam. This is just a pathetic and impotent power fantasy, strong men face death with defiance and bravery

[Ethan_jcm @Ethan7110]

@Silencio2021 @TheocharousH @RTErdogan Et encore je reste magnanime envers les barbares

[Ethan_jcm @Ethan7110]

@TurkishCentury Le barbare turc sera repoussé et rappelé à leur vraie ethnie, la Grèce

[Ethan_jcm @Ethan7110]

@bvrakvs Narbonensis for sure “This province… is no longer merely a province, but almost Italy.” Cicero

[IMPERATOR @IMPERATORAUS]

This image is perfectly emblematic of the modern West.

Weak men, seated in the ruins of a civilisation built by better men.

[Unfiltered Artist @EmpireEnjoyer3]

Space is fundamentally right wing because it is the ever expanding frontier of Western Man and it takes a certain level of intelligence to understand orbital mechanics even on a basic level.

[Zlikopek @Jean_Du_Pont_]

« Citoyens, mettons-nous en garde contre les étrangers qui veulent paraître plus patriotes que les Français eux-mêmes. »

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758–1794)

[Ethan_jcm @Ethan7110]

@bvrakvs 1. Lyon (Lugdunum): West capital, Mediterranean control, Rhône logistics/navy

2. Constantinople: Orthodox center, Black Sea control, frontier defense

3. Volgograd / Kiev: fertile plains administration, eastern frontier defense

4. Aachen: North Sea access, Rhine corridor.

[Based Hungary 🇭🇺 @HungaryBased]

🇭🇺 Magyar Péter honours the Holy Crown in the Parliament of Hungary.

"It was placed here under the first Orbán government in this wonderful parliament building."

[Ethan_jcm @Ethan7110]

@regelegorila Sous l'unité d'un empereur et d'un Catholicisme d'État donc ?