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Anna Comnena's avatar

Enjoy😃I'm honored, you are to kind! I really like your work: it's really sagacious, careful and good humored🌹

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I. Tucak's avatar

Top!

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Peregrinus's avatar

Some have it that the Byzantine's "last stand" took place at the Panache a Mouchlotissa. Hence bloody.

Great piece.

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Studying History's avatar

Thank you. Yup, hence the name "bloody church" by the Turks. Its red colour also helped with that.

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Anna Comnena's avatar

Beautifully written, thank you! I remember being shown in the crypt - the same whose rare photos you posted - the opening of a tunnel; the welcoming pope hosting us explained: "They say il leads to Hagia Sophia...who knows..."

There is alway a secret tunnel to Hagia Sophia, here, in Didymoteicho, in our minds: a shortcut to beauty universally bestow. Thank you to make me remenber🌸

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Studying History's avatar

"A shortcut to beauty universally bestowed". Couldn't have said it better. I'll use that expression from now on.

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