The Hagia Irene

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@martagonzalez571 10 ай бұрын

I’ve visited it in September 2020 and again in October 2023 and I love it, and I love Topkapi. Thanks for sharing your video.

@brucefreadrich1188 10 ай бұрын

They knew how to build back then. Choniates says the church also survived a fire (August 19, 1203) so intense ships sailing past in the Bosphorus were set on fire. Love the podcast and your videos.

@sidibill 8 ай бұрын

Very interesting. I was able to get in the church when I visited Istanbul a couple of decades ago. It was not open to the public but while I was visiting the palace I noticed that the door of the church was open. I walked in and looked around a bit. There were workmen setting up chairs. I guess for an upcoming concert or something. Thanks for the video.

@brober 10 ай бұрын

I was lucky enough to get into to see the Hagia Irene when it was briefly open in 2009. I was the only person there . Wandered up into the gallery. The courtyard was closed. The sun light through a window caught a fragment of mosaic which glittered once again. Magical.

@TheHistoryofByzantiumPodcast 10 ай бұрын

I'm very jealous, I've never been upstairs

@Theodoros_Kolokotronis 3 ай бұрын

Another splendid Byzantine monument. Hagia Irene is the oldest known Church in the city and one of the only Byzantine Churches in Constantinople that was never converted into a mosque. Part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Greek Byzantine origin.

@JanKeenan 10 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed that. Thank you. A nice clear description

@paintedweasels 10 ай бұрын

Hey Robin! I'm currently going over Mike's Podcast again, and soon will be going on to yours next, I was wondering if it might be possible for you to upload yours on KZbin as well in a playlist, that way KZbin premium members can download it to their devices and listen to it while biking around without internet, not sure how you feel about it but it is how I listen to The History of Rome religiously everyday, and I'm sure it would help get more viewers for the podcast overall, give it a thought, and thanks for all your hard work over the years towards these studies

@TheHistoryofByzantiumPodcast 10 ай бұрын

Yes I am looking into doing this. I'm just a bit worried about how long it will take.

@RizzstrainingOrder66 10 ай бұрын

awesome video, thanks a lot

@ddiesel1836 7 ай бұрын

we visited hagia Irene in April 2023. it was beautiful rom the outside bu i have wondered why it is not restored from the inside

@brooksmagruder6662 10 ай бұрын

Topkapı is spelled with an undotted i. So is pronounced "top kapuh"-- not "top kap ee". It means "ball gate" in Turkish. Just like Turk drink rakı is pronounced rak-uh, not rak ee.

@pelicanus4154 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for this. Informative but not too long.

@sumazdar 10 ай бұрын

dziękuję

@Orthodoge 10 ай бұрын

Wasn’t the Church of the Holy Apostles and St Polyeuktos bigger than Hagia Irene?

@TheHistoryofByzantiumPodcast 10 ай бұрын

Yes C of the HA, not sure about Polyeuktos, possibly. But if I said it wrong, apologies, I meant biggest surviving church

@C63V8 10 ай бұрын

Interesting

@daveweiss5647 10 ай бұрын

It's an absolute shame the Brits had Constantinople after WWI and the Greeks had taken the rest of European Turkey (also the greek parts of Anatolia) but the Brits gave it up, a once in History chance to return it to It's rightful owners...squandered.

@olbiomoiros 10 ай бұрын

Greeks also were too greedy and rather than staying in the lands they freed and legally given to them in the treaty of Sèvres (Ionia) they wanted to march all the way to Ankara, straining their resources and eventually the Greek army collapsed

@hangar4851 10 ай бұрын

There is no European Turkey. Paradoxon. The geographic land is Asia Minor. Turkey is not Europe, and will not be in the future.

@daveweiss5647 10 ай бұрын

@olbiomoiros yes, very true, plus "the monkey bite heard around the world" turned their lies against them... they could have had the entire Aegean coast all the Islands and Constantinople... what a disaster, what a list opportunity... it is such a tragedy. Even with all that, I feel like the Brits still could have given them Constantinople and kept a base there to defend it, but for some reason they always side with the Turks vs Orthodox Christians/Eastern Europeans (ever since the Greek War of independence, which they sided with Greeks.

@Mashwag 10 ай бұрын

Hahahaha cry harder

@emrage 10 ай бұрын

I’m glad it stayed in Turkish hands. Greeks and their weak management of their economy would’ve ruined Ionia and Constantinople

@resatsabuncu3094 10 ай бұрын

Nice

@polemeros 10 ай бұрын

Note on the Janissaries: generations of kidnapped European Christian boys, enslaved by the Ottomans, forcibly converted to Islam and raised as slave-soldiers of the Sultan. When are we gonna hear about reparations from the Turks????

@thayrathyn 10 ай бұрын

Lol. What do modern-day Turks have to do with this? Every nation on this planet has at one point in history committed atrocities. You cannot hold their supposed descendants accountable for every deed of their distant forefathers, that would be impractical, realistically impossible, and overall just stupid. Better to invest energy and resources into spreading awareness and making sure it never happens again. Besides, this is a neutral academic channel intended for learning. If you want to discuss your bitter political ideas, take them someplace else.

@madonebo9249 10 ай бұрын

You want money so much ha?

@olbiomoiros 10 ай бұрын

Recognition of the Greek genocide -massacres and death marches in Pontus, massacres against Pontic Greek representatives in Amaseia (Amasya), deportation of Greeks from Sampsounta (Samsun), massacres in the 20th century in: Smyrna (Izmir), Phocaia (Foce), Kydonies (Aivalik), Nikaia (Iznik) and Nikomedeia (Izmit), the massacres in the 19th century in Cyprus, Crete and Chios, the Porgroms in Konstantinoupolis (Istanbul) in 1955, varlik vergisi, unequal taxes, labour battalions (slavery). Also recognition of the Armenian genocide and the Hamidian massacres.

@madonebo9249 10 ай бұрын

@@olbiomoiros do you recognize the tripolitsa massacre where you killed thousands of civilian turks and jews? What about the massacres you commited in Anatolia? How about the massacres of the Latins?

@huriyekara2043 10 ай бұрын

@@olbiomoirosyunanlıların İstanbulda ne işi vardı?

@someinteresting 10 ай бұрын

I know English natives are hopeless with pronunciation but Hajia....

@dragonmartijn 10 ай бұрын

Let’s pronounce in Hadidja or Hatchitcha.

@pelicanus4154 10 ай бұрын

I heard a Turkish academic pronounce it as "Aya" which is very melodic. @@dragonmartijn

@zsoltfeher4220 4 ай бұрын

Azt esetleg meg emlithette volna ki volt Irenne. Irenne szent Làszlo magyar kiràly lànya volt aki Àrpàdhàzi Piroska néven született. Fiatal koràba került konstantinàpolyba. Szerették a bizànciak. Férje halàla utànn ö uralkodott. Halàla utàn nem sokàra szenté avattàk. Ö volt az egy àrpàdhàzbol aki görög katolikus szent! Mivel àttért a bizanci hitre ezért piroskàrol irenere vàtoztatta a nevét. Ha màr erröl a templomrol beszélünk.