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    Sack of Constantinople (1204)



    The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople, by Eugène Delacroix

    The siege and sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Mutinous Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. After the capture of the city, the Latin Empire (known to the Byzantines as the Frankokratia or the Latin Occupation)[4] was established and Baldwin of Flanders was crowned Emperor Baldwin I of Constantinople in the Hagia Sophia.

    After the city's sacking, most of the Byzantine Empire's territories were divided up among the Crusaders. Byzantine aristocrats also established a number of small independent splinter states, one of them being the Empire of Nicaea, which would eventually recapture Constantinople in 1261 and proclaim the reinstatement of the Empire. However, the restored Empire never managed to reclaim its former territorial or economic strength, and eventually fell to the rising Ottoman Sultanate in the 1453 Siege of Constantinople.

    The sack of Constantinople is a major turning point in medieval history. The Crusaders' decision to attack the world's largest Christian city was unprecedented and immediately controversial. Reports of Crusader looting and brutality scandalised and horrified the Orthodox world; relations between the Catholic and Orthodox churches were catastrophically wounded for many centuries afterwards, and would not be substantially repaired until modern times.

    The Byzantine Empire was left much poorer, smaller, and ultimately less able to defend itself against the Turkish conquests that followed; the actions of the Crusaders thus directly accelerated the collapse of Christendom in the east, and in the long run facilitated the expansion of Islam into Europe.



    The siege of Constantinople in 1204, by Palma il Giovane


    Sack of Constantinople



    The original Horses of Saint Mark displayed inside St Mark's Basilica in Venice; replicas adorn the outside

    The Crusaders looted, terrorized, and vandalized Constantinople for three days, during which many ancient and medieval Roman and Greek works were either stolen or destroyed. The famous bronze horses from the Hippodrome were sent back to adorn the façade of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, where they remain. As well as being stolen, works of immeasurable artistic value were destroyed merely for their material value. One of the most precious works to suffer such a fate was a large bronze statue of Hercules, created by the legendary Lysippos, court sculptor of Alexander the Great. Like so many other priceless artworks made of bronze, the statue was melted down for its content by the Crusaders.[9]

    Despite their oaths and the threat of excommunication, the Crusaders systematically violated the city's holy sanctuaries, destroying or stealing all they could lay hands on; nothing was spared, not even the tombs of the emperors inside the St Apostles church.[10] The civilian population of Constantinople were subject to the Crusaders' ruthless lust for spoils and glory; thousands of them were killed in cold blood.[11] Women, including nuns, were raped by the Crusader army,[12] which also sacked churches, monasteries and convents.[11] The very altars of these churches were smashed and torn to pieces for their gold and marble by the warriors.[10] Although the Venetians engaged in looting too, their actions were far more restrained. Doge Dandolo still appeared to have far more control over his men. Rather than wantonly destroying all around like their comrades, the Venetians stole religious relics and works of art, which they would later take to Venice to adorn their own churches.

    It was said that the total amount looted from Constantinople was about 900,000 silver marks, or 600,000 troy pounds. The Venetians received 150,000 silver marks that was their due and the Crusaders received 50,000 silver marks. A further 100,000 silver marks were divided evenly between the Crusaders and Venetians. The remaining 500,000 silver marks were secretly kept back by many Crusader knights.

    Aftermath

    According to a prearranged treaty the empire was apportioned between Venice and the crusade's leaders, and the Latin Empire of Constantinople was established.

    Byzantine aristocratic refugees founded their own successor states, the most notable of these being the Empire of Nicaea under Theodore Lascaris (a relative of Alexius III), the Empire of Trebizond and the Despotate of Epirus.

    The sack weakened the Byzantine Empire, which allowed neighboring groups such as the Sultanate of Rum, and later the Ottoman Turks, to gain influence (see the Byzantine–Ottoman Wars).

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    Sack of Constantinople

    Sack of Constantinople, (April 1204). The diversion of the Fourth Crusade from the Holy Land to attack, capture, and pillage the Byzantine city of Constantinople divided and dissipated the efforts of the Christians to maintain the war against the Muslims. It is widely regarded as a shocking betrayal of principles out of greed.

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    1204: The Sack of Constantinople

    by Mark Cartwright
    published on 01 February 2018

    In 1204 CE the unthinkable happened and Constantinople, after nine centuries of withstanding all comers, was brutally sacked. Even more startling was the fact that the perpetrators were not any of the traditional enemies of the Byzantine Empire: the armies of Islam, the Bulgars, Hungarians, or Serbs, but the western Christian army of the Fourth Crusade. Finally, the mutual suspicion and distrust that had existed for centuries between the western and eastern states and churches had blown up into full-scale warfare. With the fall of the city, many of its religious icons, relics, and artworks were spirited away and the Byzantine Empire was divided up between Venice and its allies. The empire would rise again from the ashes but never again could Constantinople claim to be the greatest, richest, and most artistically vibrant city in the world.



    The Sack of Constantinople in 1204 CE


    The centuries of argument and mistrust, the constant rivalry between Popes and emperors, and the rising ambition of western states to wrest from Byzantium the remnants of its empire in Italy were, for a time, held in check by the first three Crusades. All three, though, would prove to be unsuccessful in permanently securing Christianity’s Holy Places from the Arabs. Worse, they created a damaging rift in east-west relations as blame was apportioned to either side for the lack of success. The Byzantines were considered to lack the will to fight the common enemy while, from the other side, the Crusaders were seen as opportunists out to grab the choicest parts of the Byzantine Empire in the east.



    Enrico Dandolo


    Historians continue to debate the exact reason why the Crusaders then turned on Constantinople instead of Jerusalem, but one crucial ingredient in the troublesome mix of mutual suspicions between the western powers and Byzantium was the Republic of Venice and one man, in particular, the Doge Enrico Dandolo (r. 1192-1205 CE). Intent on winning Venetian domination of the trade in the east, he well remembered his undignified expulsion from Constantinople when he served as an ambassador. This seemed as good an opportunity as ever to finally knock out Constantinople as a trade competitor. In addition, the Pope would achieve the supremacy of the western Church once and for all and the Crusader knights would not only gain revenge on the duplicitous Byzantines for their unhelpful support of previous Crusades but also surely pick up some glory and handsome booty in the process. The riches of Constantinople could then pay for the rest of the Crusade as it marched on to Jerusalem. It may not have been so cynically planned by all parties but, in the end, it is exactly what happened with the exception that the Fourth Crusade ended with the fall of the Byzantine capital and Jerusalem was left for a later date.



    The Venetians Attack Constantinople, 1204 CE


    For now Doge Dandolo and the Crusaders saw their golden opportunity not just to receive aid from the Byzantines but to loot the city entirely for all it was worth.

    Citizens were raped and massacred, buildings were torched and churches desecrated.


    Constantinople, in 1204 CE, had a population of around 300,000, dwarfing the 80,000 in Venice, western Europe’s largest city at the time. But it was not only its size that impressed the Crusaders, its buildings, churches and palaces, the huge forums and gardens, and, above all, its riches struck awe in the western visitors. Then awe was swiftly replaced by greed. Monumental sculptures, countless artworks, books, manuscripts, and jewels which had been steadily accumulated by emperors and nobles over a millennium were all stripped away and either destroyed or melted down for coinage. Furniture, doors, and marble architectural elements were taken away for reuse elsewhere, and even the tombs of emperors, including that of the great Justinian I, were opened up and their precious contents removed.

    One of the most precious of all Byzantine religious relics to be stolen was the Mandylion shroud, a cloth or scarf said to have carried an impression of Christ himself. It was taken as a prize to France but, alas, this priceless icon was destroyed during the French Revolution. In another example, a gold reliquary containing a fragment of the True Cross ended up in the cathedral of Limburg in Germany. The Hippodrome of Constantinople, especially, was looted for all the treasures which stood in the central island around which the chariots raced. The four bronze horses now in St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice were probably once part of a chariot group which stood atop the arena’s monumental entrance gate.



    Horses from the Hippodrome of Constantinople


    The Byzantines lamented not only the awful bloodshed and the monetary loss of the sacking but also the destruction of historically important artworks which they knew full well connected the city and, indeed, the western world back to its Roman heritage. The world had lost something great and undefinable, as powerfully summarised here by the historian J. J. Norwich:


    "By the sack of Constantinople, Western civilization suffered a loss greater than the burning of the library of Alexandria in the fourth century or the sack of Rome in the fifth - perhaps the most catastrophic single loss in all history. (306)"



    Division of the Byzantine Empire, 1204 CE.


    Aftermath

    The emperor Alexios V Doukas fled the city, but he was later captured, blinded, and then tossed to his death from the top of a column a few months later. After the dust settled and everyone had their fill of pillaging and looting, the Partitio Romaniae treaty, already decided on beforehand, carved up the Byzantine Empire amongst Venice and its allies. The Venetians took three-eighths of Constantinople, the Ionian islands, Crete, Euboea, Andros, Naxos, and a few strategic points along the coast of the Sea of Marmara. Baldwin of Flanders was then made the Latin emperor (r. 1204-1205 CE) and crowned in the Hagia Sophia, receiving five-eighths of Constantinople and one-quarter of the empire which included Thrace, northwest Asia Minor, and several Aegean islands (notably Chios, Lesbos, and Samos). Boniface of Montferrat took over Thessalonica and formed a new kingdom there which also included Athens and Macedonia. In 1205 CE, following the death of Baldwin in a Bulgarian prison, William I Champlitte and Geoffrey I Villehardouin (nephew of the historian of the same name) founded a Latin principality in the Peloponnese while the French duke Othon de la Roche grabbed Attica and Boeotia.

    The Byzantine Empire would be re-established in 1261 CE, albeit a shadow of its former self, when forces from the Empire of Nicaea, the centre of the Byzantines-in-exile (1208-1261 CE) retook Constantinople. Emperor Michael VIII (r. 1259-1282 CE) was then able to place his throne back in the palace of his Byzantine predecessors.


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    https://www.ancient.eu/article/1188/...onstantinople/
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    Last speech of Constantine Paleologos

    "Animals may run away from animals, but you are men, men of brave heart, and you will hold at bay these dumb beasts, thrusting your spears and swords into them, so that they will know that they fight not against their own kind but against their masters and descendants of both Hellenes and Romans."

    «To surrender the city to you is beyond my authority or anyone else’s who lives in it, for all of us, after taking the mutual decision, shall die out of free will without sparing our lives. »
    (Constantine XI Palaiologos in response to a demand to surrender Constantinople to the besieging forces of ottoman sultan Mehmed II on 5 April 1453)


    He was the last one to fall

    After Giustiniani's injury and the withdrawal of him and his soldiers from the gate of Romanos, the Town's defence collapsed. The emperor was hearing the Turks coming closer. "You can save yourselves then do it and if you are ready to come across death then follow me", said he to those who were surrounding him. Before completing his sentence, his cousin Theophilus Palaeologus answered without a second thought: "I'd rather die than live". These words fascinated about two hundred Greeks and Italians, who preferred to follow the emperor to death, than saving themselves.

    He refused to escape

    Just like Leonidas from Sparta, Constantine Palaeologus died in the battlefield like a simple soldier, knowing in advance that he would have a horrible death.

    The last minute, he categorically denied to escape, as his men were persistently urging him to. "It's not possible for me to continue living, while my city has fallen", he answered. If he had escaped, who knows, maybe he would have made a new army and ensured alliances that would allow him to recapture Constantinople in the future. He preferred to die in glory in his 49 years, being the eighth and the last king of Palaeologus dynasty, which reigned over Constantinople for 195 years, than to see his people getting enslaved.


    His death

    Constantine Paleologos, together with 200 volunteers, rushed against the Ottoman army. According to historian Frantzis: "Then he sting his horse and by galloping reached the point where the crowd of the wicked came, and from the first engagement precipitated the wicked from the walls, which was strange and wonderful for those who happened to be there and to see it. Roaring like a lion and holding the naked sword in his right hand, he killed many of the enemies, while blood flowed like a river from his feet and hands. "

    He continued to fight until there was no hope. Then one of the Ottomans killed him and offered his head to Muhammad II. His death was the definitive end of the Byzantine Empire.

    Ο Παλιολόγος μαζί με 200 εθελοντές όρμησε κατά των Οθωμανικού στρατού. Σύμφωνα με τον Σφραντζή: «Κέντρισε, τότε, τον ίππο του και καλπάζοντας έφτασε στο σημείο από όπου ερχόταν το πλήθος των ασεβών και από την πρώτη συμπλοκή κατακρήμνισε τους ασεβείς από τα τείχη, γεγονός που ήταν παράξενο και θαυμάσιο για όσους έτυχε να βρεθούν εκεί και να το δουν. Βρυχώμενος σαν λιοντάρι και κρατώντας το γυμνό ξίφος στο δεξί χέρι του κατέσφαξε πολλούς από τους εχθρούς, ενώ το αίμα έρρεε σαν ποτάμι από τα πόδια του και τα χέρια του».

    Συνέχισε να πολεμά μέχρις ότου δεν υπήρχε καμία ελπίδα. Τότε κάποιος από τους Οθωμανούς τον σκότωσε και πρόσφερε το κεφάλι του στον Μωάμεθ Β'. Ο θάνατός του ήταν το οριστικό τέλος της Βυζαντινής αυτοκρατορίας.

    He died fighting all alone, mounted οn his white-footed horse. He killed ten pashas and sixty janissaries before his lance was broken and his sword snapped and there was nο one there to help him. He raised his eyes to heaven and cried: "Lord Almighty, creator of the world, have pity οn your people, have pity οn Constantinople." A Turk struck him οn the head and the poor Constantine fell from his horse and 1ay stretched upοn the ground in all the dust and blood. They severed his head and stuck it οn the end of a lance;

    According to Michael Critobulus (writing later in Mehmed's service), he remarked, "The city is fallen and I am still alive."

    "Isn't there any Christian to take my head?"


    According to Historian Frantzis the invaders broke the heads of those women who resisted, on the floor of the churches and they raped them dead.

    Their tenants were killed, nuns were raped, many, to avoid dishonor, killed themselves. Killing, raping, looting, burning, enslaving, went on and on according to tradition. The troops had to satisfy themselves.

    Everything that could be taken from the splendid buildings was taken by the new masters of the Imperial capital. Icons were destroyed, precious manuscripts were lost forever. Thousands of civilians were enslaved, soldiers fought over young boys and young women.

    So a civilization of 1100 years old was lost in some days. The barbarians didn't respect anything holy icons, books, paintings, mosaics. They demolished and vandalized churches, ancient monuments, palaces dated from 4th century. Nevertheless the ideas did not vanished. Turks didn't manage to vanish the Hellenic spirit. Many Greeks like Byssarion, Dimitrios Kavakis, Georgios Xaritonimos, Ieronimos of Sparta fled to Europe where they spread the ideas of Socrates, Platon, Aristotelis, Aeschylus, Archimidis, Homer, Euripides, Solon.




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    What both the West and the East always hated. The Crusaders almost destroyed our Empire and once again the Westerners did their best to help indirectly the Turk-Mongols to invade and occupy the whole Orthodox Asia Minor and Balkans for almost half a millennium. Eastern Romans had spit on the face the Pope who blackmailed the Empire(give it to me or the Turks will take care of you).

    I dislike nothing more in life than Greek West ass lickers(especially living in USA or North West Europe) who attack Anatolian Greeks and "Byzantium" with claims such as "they are Turks, Anatolians, Armenians" and so on, same goes for Western Europeans who claim same things. Pseudo-racist propaganda at its best!

    Saint Paisios has prophesied the lost of those who came from the seed of the Crusaders as well as the lost of all Northern Europe by Russian hands! I hope God will make it a reality!




    "First, God will punish the great enemies of Orthodoxy, which are Islamism and Catholicism. Those who are relentlessly striking Orthodoxy will now disappear. Even those who destroyed the Byzantine civilization were not the Turks who destroyed it, they were the crusaders, the Europeans, the Catholics who strengthened the Turks to destroy Byzantium. Their descendants then will be gathered there by God and they will be slaughtered."

    Πρώτα θα παιδεύσει ο Θεός τους μεγάλους εχθρούς της Ορθοδοξίας , που είναι ο Ισλαμισμός και ο Καθολικισμός . Αυτοί που αμείλικτα χτυπούν την Ορθοδοξία, τώρα θα εκλείψουν . Ακόμα και αυτοί που κατέστρεψαν τον Βυζαντινό Πολιτισμό δεν είναι οι Τούρκοι που τον κατέστρεψαν, είναι οι σταυροφόροι , οι Ευρωπαίοι , οι καθολικοί που ενίσχυσαν τους Τούρκους για να καταστρέψουν το Βυζάντιο .Τους απογόνους τους , λοιπόν , θα τους μαζέψει ο Θεός εκεί μέσα και θα σφαγούν εκεί.

    "And when the friends of Turkey (the descendants of the crusaders) NATO, will come down to help Turks and save them, then there it will be the great Conflict and they will be slaughtered."

    Κι όταν κατέβουν οι φίλοι της Τουρκίας (οι απόγονοι δηλαδή των σταυροφόρων ) το ΝΑΤΟ , για να τη σώσουν , τότε εκεί θα γίνει , η μεγάλη Σύρραξη και θα σφαγούν.

    https://www.agiosgeorgioshaidarioy.g...profities.html


    "In Constantinople, there will be a great war between the Russians and Europeans and a lot of blood will be spilled."

    Στην Κων/πολη θα γίνει μεγάλος πόλεμος μεταξύ των Ρώσων και των Ευρωπαίων και θα χυθεί πολύ αίμα.

    "But then the other states of Europe, namely England, France, Italy, and six-seven other EU countries, will see that Russia will grab parts, so they will say, "Why don't we go there to get some parts? "Everyone will chase the lion's share. This is how also the Europeans will enter the war ... ..The (Greek)government will decide not to send an army. It will keep the army only at borders. And it will be a great blessing not to take part. Because, whoever will take part in this war (the European) will be lost ... "... 434."

    Όμως, θα δουν τότε τα άλλα κράτη της Ευρώπης, συγκεκριμένα η Αγγλία, η Γαλλία, η Ιταλία και άλλα έξι – εφτά κράτη της ΕΟΚ, ότι η Ρωσία θα αρπάξει μέρη, οπότε θα πουν: “Δεν πάμε κι εμείς εκεί πέρα, μήπως πάρουμε κανένα κομμάτι;” Όλοι, όμως θα κυνηγούν τη μερίδα του λέοντος. Έτσι θα μπουν και οι Ευρωπαίοι στον πόλεμο…..Θα βγάλει η (ελληνική) κυβέρνηση απόφαση να μη στείλη στρατό. Θα κρατήσει στρατό μόνο στα σύνορα. Και θα είναι μεγάλη ευλογία που δε θα πάρει μέρος. Γιατί , όποιος πάρει μέρος σ΄ αυτόν τον πόλεμο (εν. τον ευρωπαϊκό), χάθηκε…»… 434.

    http://www.agiosxaralampos.gr/profit...ter-theofilos/


    And for Northern Europe.

    "The European Union will be dissolved"

    Η ΕυρωπαΙκή Ένωση θα διαλυθεί

    "The people of the North will go with the Americans, but the Russians will burn them down"

    Οι λαοί του Βορά θα πάνε με τους Αμερικανούς αλλά οι Ρώσοι θα τους κάψουν

    https://michalism.wordpress.com/2011...E%B7-%CE%B5-2/

    "Everybody will leave Russians and they will go with the Jews of America. The Russians will burn them down"

    Όλοι θα παρατήσουν τους Ρώσους και θα πάνε με τους Εβραίους της Αμερικής . Οι Ρώσοι θα τους κάψουν

    http://paterpaisios.blogspot.gr/

    "Nowadays, people are seeing everything with cunning, because they are all measured by the mind. The European spirit did a lot of evil. That's why people have became like that."

    Σήμερα οι άνθρωποι τα βλέπουν όλα με πονηριά, γιατί τα μετρούν όλα μόνο με το μυαλό. Το ευρωπαϊκό πνεύμα πολύ κακό έκανε. Αυτό είναι που σακάτεψε τους ανθρώπους.

    https://www.impantokratoros.gr/aplot...orfosh.el.aspx


    Great prophecies! Laughs best he who laughs last! Very soon you will see the power of Orthodoxy!


    "Saint Paisios exceeds Lenin in popularity"

    Ο Άγιος Παΐσιος ξεπερνάει τον Λένιν σε δημοτικότητα

    "Now "star" in Russia is monk of the Mount Athos, the Greek Saint (now) Paisios. Books with his speeches and his ascetic life sweep in publishing. Up to now, more than three million copies have been sold, while seven films have been filmed and an eighth is being prepared."

    Τώρα "σταρ" είναι στη Ρωσία ένας αγιορείτης μοναχός, ο Έλληνας Άγιος (πλέον) Παΐσιος. Τα βιβλία με τους λόγους του και την ασκητική ζωή του σαρώνουν εκδοτικά. Μέχρι τώρα έχουν πουληθεί περισσότερα από τρία εκατομμύρια αντίτυπα, ενώ έχουν γυριστεί ...εφτά κινηματογραφικές ταινίες και ετοιμάζεται και μια όγδοη.

    "Paisios is by far the most popular saint. By thousands the Russian believers flock to pilgrimage outside of Thessaloniki, where Paisios is buried, innumerable stories and testimonies circulate around his life and prophecies."

    Ο Παΐσιος είναι μακράν ο πιο δημοφιλής Άγιος. Κατά χιλιάδες συρρέουν οι Ρώσοι πιστοί για προσκύνημα έξω από τη Θεσσαλονίκη, όπου είναι ενταφιασμένος ο Παΐσιος, κυκλοφορούν αναρίθμητες ιστορίες και μαρτυρίες γύρω από τη ζωή και τις προφητείες του.

    "The Russians seem to be inspired by the Greek Saint, they feel to give them hope, they believe he is doing miracles."

    Ο Ρώσοι δείχνουν να εμπνέονται από τον αγιορείτη Άγιο, αισθάνονται να τους δίνει ελπίδα, πιστεύουν ότι κάνει θαύματα.

    http://www.pronews.gr/thriskeia/orth...e-dimotikotita







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    Dark skin is sign of evilness, every dark skinned country is agressive, full with criminality, violented peoples, most crimes were committed by dark skinned peoples. Many of them are follower of Islam (death cult) to spread the voice of Satan who tainted them that's why their skin is dark as their souls. We whites are descedants of angels (thats why our skin is light), we created the human rights, we ended slavery, we created the modern medical science to save lifes etc etc. Thats why the dark skinned peoples are so jealous for us and they want to destroy everything what the angles created.

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    Moron, don't post when others are trying to post something.
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    Dark skin is sign of evilness, every dark skinned country is agressive, full with criminality, violented peoples, most crimes were committed by dark skinned peoples. Many of them are follower of Islam (death cult) to spread the voice of Satan who tainted them that's why their skin is dark as their souls. We whites are descedants of angels (thats why our skin is light), we created the human rights, we ended slavery, we created the modern medical science to save lifes etc etc. Thats why the dark skinned peoples are so jealous for us and they want to destroy everything what the angles created.

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    Byzantine Empire got gangbanged by Germanics and Turks, ayy lmao

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    How the Byzantines/Romans destroyed the Armenia



    Ani attained the peak of its power during the long reign of King Gagik I (989–1020). After his death his two sons quarreled over the succession. The eldest son, Hovhannes-Smbat (1020–41), gained control of Ani while his younger brother, Ashot IV (1020–40), controlled other parts of the Bagratuni kingdom. Hovhannes-Smbat, fearing that the Byzantine Empire would attack his now-weakened kingdom, made the Byzantine Emperor Basil II his heir. When Hovhannes-Smbat died in 1041, Emperor Michael IV the Paphlagonian, claimed sovereignty over Ani. The new king of Ani, Gagik II (1042–45), opposed this and several Byzantine armies sent to capture Ani were repulsed. However, in 1046 Ani surrendered to the Byzantines, after Gagik was invited to Constantinople and detained there, and at the instigation of pro-Byzantine elements among its population. A Byzantine governor was installed in the city.

    In 1064, a large Seljuk army under Alp Arslan attacked Ani; after a siege of 25 days, they captured the city and slaughtered its population. An account of the sack and massacres in Ani is given by the Arab historian Sibt ibn al-Jawzi, who quotes an eyewitness saying:

    Putting the Persian sword to work, they spared no one... One could see there the grief and calamity of every age of human kind. For children were ravished from the embraces of their mothers and mercilessly hurled against rocks, while the mothers drenched them with tears and blood... The city became filled from one end to the other with bodies of the slain and [the bodies of the slain] became a road. [...] The army entered the city, massacred its inhabitants, pillaged and burned it, leaving it in ruins and taking prisoner all those who remained alive...The dead bodies were so many that they blocked the streets; one could not go anywhere without stepping over them. And the number of prisoners was not less than 50,000 souls. I was determined to enter city and see the destruction with my own eyes. I tried to find a street in which I would not have to walk over the corpses; but that was impossible.
    In 1072, the Seljuks sold Ani to the Shaddadids, a Muslim Kurdish dynasty.

    Ani was sacked by the Mongols in 1236 and devastated in a 1319 earthquake, after which it was reduced to a village and gradually abandoned and largely forgotten by the seventeenth century. Ani is a widely recognized cultural, religious, and national heritage symbol for Armenians. According to Razmik Panossian, Ani is one of the most visible and ‘tangible’ symbols of past Armenian greatness and hence a source of pride.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hellenas View Post
    Moron, don't post when others are trying to post something.
    You wrote: "relations between the Catholic and Orthodox churches were catastrophically wounded for many centuries afterwards, and would not be substantially repaired until modern times."

    There is no such thing as "Catholic" Church, that's a renegade Church that came to be after Pentarch of the West (Patriarch of the Rome) declared independence from Roman Empire and proclaimed some
    fool Stephen II as SUPERIOR to the Emperor (Caesar), those events happened after Pope Zachary in 7th century, who was the last Pentarch of the West.

    The sole person and representative of Jesus was the Roman Emperor in Constantinople and he was the First among equals, no other authority or King, Queen could represent anything. Emperor was the
    Emperor of the World and whole Universe.

    Everything After Collapse of Roman Empire is a deed of Anti-Christ, for there can't be more than One Emperor on Earth, and multitude of rulers as we have now today is a an Abomination.

    That's how we imagined Byzantine and later Ottoman Emperors.

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