The actor Ismail Kargi contacted me to share his experience of appearing in the Netflix epic series Resurrection: Ertugrul and shared some images
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Category: Templar News
Tags: byzantine, Diriliş: Ertuğrul, empire, Ertugrul, Ghazi, imperial, Ismail Kargi, knights templar, mongol, Ottoman, resurrection, Templar, templars, turkey
There are Templar influences in Game of Thrones if you look closely enough as Templar expert Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: bay, byzantine, Cathar, christian, comparison, constantinople, Dorne, empire, fantasy, game of thrones, george, George R. R. Martin, High Sparrow, history, iconoclasm, iconoclast, J R R Tolkein, king, Kingdom, knight, Knights Templar, Martin, Medieval, middle ages, Night's Watch, Nights, Qarth, queen, Roses, Seville, slaver, Templar, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkein, true, war, Westeros
A visit to Istanbul – once called Constantinople and capital of the Byzantine Empire
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Category: Templar History
Tags: baphomet, blind, Blue Mosque, byzantine, christ, Cistern, constantinople, crusade, Dan Brown, Dandolo, doge, empire, Enrico, faith, fourth, Galata, god, Hagia Sophia, Holiday, hotel, Inferno, istanbul, James Bond, Karavan, Knightfall, Ottoman, safe, Templar, tourism, tourist, tower, weekend
The most popular Google search terms used when seeking information on the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: arn, Arn Magnusson, banking, baphomet, baptist, battle, byzantine, De Nogaret, empire, fiction, france, google, Guillou, head, invade, Iran, jewish, jews, John, king, Knightfall, knights, Landry, lending, Manzikert, money, OSMTH, Philip, real, saint, saints, search, seljuk, Sverige, sweden, Swedish, Templar, term, today, war, worship
Medieval Easter was way more important than Easter is today. Two reasons. One was the celebration of the resurrection of Christ and the other was the rebirth of the countryside. In feudal rural societies – never far from starvation –…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: byzantine, christ, crucifixion, Easter, faith, jesus, Latin, medieval, middle ages, religion, risen, Templar, Whitsun
There is an incredible claim that the Muslim Shahada is inscribed on the back of the throne of St Peter in the Vatican as Tony McMahon reports
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: allah, basilica, byzantine, Charles the Bald, crusader, Islam, Muhammad, muslim, pope, Prophet, rome, san pietro di castello, Shahadah, St Peters, Templar, throne
The boundary between the medieval Muslim and Christian worlds was very fluid and certain individuals had no difficulty moving from one world to the other
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Category: Templar History
Tags: boundaries, boundary, byzantine, Capella, catholic, chapel, Charlton, christian, christianity, constantine, Cordoba, Davides, El Cid, Evora, Geraldo, Heston, histfic, history, iraq, ISIS, Islam, jewish, knights, knights templar, Loren, medieval, Mozarab, muslim, norman, Ottoman, palatina, Palatine, Roger, seljuk, Sem Pavor, Sevilla, Seville, Sicily, Sisnando, Sophia, syria, Templar
The Fourth Crusade saw the most appalling war crime when crusaders funded by Venice destroyed a Christian city – Constantinople. Venice is now an over-visited historical tourist resort in northern Italy subject to flooding and beset of late by the…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: battle, byzantine, Catholic Church, constantinople, crusade, Dandolo, destroy, diocletian, doge, horses, innocent, muslim, pillage, plunder, pope, prison, rape, San Marco, Templar, tetrarch, Venice, war
The 6th century AD Madaba Map gives an exclusive view of Byzantine Jerusalem in thousands of tiles that make up an amazing mosaic
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Category: Templar History
Tags: byzantine, christianity, church, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, constantinople, empire, Holy Sepulchre, jerusalem, Justinian, knights templar, Madaba, map, Nea, roman, Roman Empire, rome, Theotokos
The Templar Knight blog has just visited the biblical city of Gadara – part of the Decapolis – and now known as Um Qais to see its Roman ruins
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Category: Templar History
Tags: amphitheatre, Ancient, Ancient Rome, basalt, byzantine, Byzantine Empire, Decapolis, Gadara, Galilee, jesus, jordan, Kingdom, middle east, roman, rome, Saudi Arabia, syria, Templar, Um Qais