The Hagia Sophia is to be turned back into a mosque having been a museum for eighty years after a court decision now enforced by President Erdogan
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Ataturk, basilica, christian, church, constantine, constantinople, Constantius, court, decision, demonstration, Erdogan, Hagia, Hagia Sophia, Islam, Islamist, istanbul, Justinian, mosque, muslim, party, protest, roman, sacred, social media, Sofia, Theodosius, tourist, turkey, welfare, workship
Resurrection: Ertugrul is a hugely successful medieval historical TV drama series on Netflix where the Knights Templar are the bad guys
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Category: Templar History
Tags: America Unearthed, battle, constantinople, crusaders, Diriliş: Ertuğrul, east, Ertugrul, Ertuğrul, Forbidden History, hospitaller, istanbul, Kayi, knights, knights templar, mongol, Osman, Ottoman, Resurrection: Ertugrul, seljuk, Templar, tony mcmahon, west
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 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 sack of Constantinople by crusaders during the Fourth Crusade in 1204 was a battle of Christian against Christian
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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
A Christian city destroyed by Christian crusaders – such was the fate of Constantinople. It had resisted waves of invaders from Bulgars to Russians and the Muslim emirates. But it was brought to its knees by people it should have…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1204, blind, byzantine, constantinople, crusade, Dandolo, doge, empire, Fourth Crusade, Hagia Sophia, istanbul, middle ages, Venice
Medieval fake news may have started two hundred years of Crusades with a forged letter from the Byzantine emperor to the Christian west begging for help
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1099, byzantine, ByzantineEmpire, constantinople, crusade, fake, fake news, Fatimid, Islam, jerusalem, Medieval, middle east, muslim, Pope Urban, Pope Urban II, seljuk, Templar
Tony McMahon looks at one medieval bad guy after another to decide who was the most evil man in the Middle Ages among popes and kings
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Andronikos, bad, Barbarossa, battle, byzantine, Byzantine Empire, children, constantinople, crusades, Dandolo, Dante, destroy, doge, emperor, Enrico, experiment, fair, Fourth Crusade, france, Frederick, guy, Honorius, John King of England, king john, knight, Knightfall, Komnenos, Magna Carta, Medieval, Philip, pope, Pope Honorius III, siege, Templar, templars, torture, war
