Hidden Ruins of Byzantine Constantinople 

Yeah the Fatih district ( the old İstanbul/Costantinopolis) is filled with those kind of relics of old ages.

I'm from İstanbul and let me tell you that in İstanbul there is another city under the city.

It's kinda like Venice Italy

Stolen.

@@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 Do you mean the Ottomans stole from the Byzantines? That's usually what happens after a conquest.

Bap bap bap, it's the German occupation of Slavic lands. Look up Sorbes, Wendes and Lusatians. They weren't German. Neither was Berlin.

​@@kalemegdan6566Nobody cares.

well christians stole it first, the leftovers were for ottomans....@@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733

Same with Rome. Nice and cool and not too busy

He doesn't mean Istanbul. He meant Constantinople

Im gonna visit Turkey after I turn 18 and saved enough money by working!! ❤️ I've always been fascinated by this beautiful country!!!

Salty@@MrJeremybowling

I have a trip planned for November

there are many such opportunities in modern Istanbul

Fool of a Took

You sir, won the Internet today. Thank you.

Fpr those wjo dont understand... well its better if you look it up yourself

same here!

Why?

By the Venetians?

@@noleftturnunstoned Im not sure if you are trolling or what, but it would be primarily the Turkish population, and secondarily, tourists trashing the archeological sites today. Before that it was the ottomans. And then FINALLY you get to the venetians. You are like a solid thousand years off.

@@staywokecuhh Why lie about the Turks?(I know why)

@@IStevenSeagal Lmao who lives in and maintains the structures of that area today?

@@staywokecuhh Turks.

Istanbul looks like a cool old city! 😊

@@starkjet2197it is!

I thought it was Nerva Trajanus ?

why say constantinople. its Istanbul now

Sgt, I humbly believe you meant to say: "Overgrown with _Flora."_ Being overgown with Fauna could be an extremely funny way to state that someone was suddenly stampeded by buffalos, and not just that, they also decided to remain on top of the poor fellow until found centuries later 🙂. Even then, if my memory serves me well, Machu Picchu was more or less, say, not forgotten. In Mexico however, most of the Aztec and Mayan pyramids were indeed overgrown with Flora, to the point of being considered hills, until discovered and cleaned up. Ps. Oh and sure, along with the Flora comes the Fauna, it's a simbiotic relationship after all 🙂.

@@hansvonmannschaft9062 Flora yes! Also I am confused now?

@@SgtJohnRemairez No, you shouldn't be confused, it was just a funny mistake of the kind anyone could make 🙂 And here's a tip: The next time someone tells you: "Must've been Flora, not Fauna", if he's an e-diot (ie, not friendly), you can reply by saying: "Good point! But let's remember that Fauna can be taken for granted, because without Fauna, their pollinating insects, or the seeds contained within larger species' feces, there would never be any substantial Flora!" - And that's it, you shut the dude up. But save this trap for guys who deserve it 🙂 Have a good one Sgt! 😀

Sounds like NATO under Biden. Sacking Yugoslavia and Ukraine.

True, true. Another interesting fact is that when they opened the grave of emperor Justinian I his body was still, after almost six and half centuries, basically intact, a thing Orthodox Christians view as a sign of sainthood. Unfortunately Justinian's, Heraclius's and the corpses of so many other emperors were desecrated and destroyed by the Crusaders in order to get the treasures with which they were buried. Truly a sad moment in the history of civilization.

@@justinian-the-great sad and typical..

@@justinian-the-great It's time to pull and OJ and get all our stuff back.

Crusaders were savage and barbaric to Roman Orthodox Christian Constantinople!

Free Constantinople

where do you live?

@@16876 Crete , Greece

@@Sam_Green____4114 Why the union jack for a pfp?

his name is Sam Green. That is probably why.​@@dl5498

In addition to the Hajia Sophia, Blue Mosque etc., I strongly recommend a visit to the Basilica Cistern. It is an amazing monument to Roman engineering.

@@tommcallister7647 Thank you for the tourist tips, and peace be with you ✌️

🚛🙂🙂👍 That sounds fun and interesting, mind if we tag along ?

@@optimusprinceps3526 "Israel" I see what you did there.

Wow that must have been amazing! Travelling around the Mediterranean on an enormous floating buffet, disembarking for a few hours and then reboarding the buffet ship. You must have really experienced the culture of each destination and had a great view from off shore, as the ship dumped all your slurry into the harbour.

Turkish occupied Greco-Roman Roman Pravo Slav Holy Lands.

@@kalemegdan6566 Come and take it

@@kalemegdan6566 cope with it!

@@kalemegdan6566 Keep crying. Turks have been in Anatolia for nearly 1000 years now. Istanbul is ours for nearly 600 years as well. These lands are 100% Turkish and we aren't going anywhere!

@kaankahraman1341 Wrong. It's not even 2100 -2200 A.D.. Your math, just like your history and your culture is off. Everything you think is Turkish eas borrowed from Mongols, Persians, Arabs, Phoencians, Greeks, Roman's and "Pravo Slava Vera" [Orthodox Christian Faith.]. You temporally worship in our Havia Sofia. When we come back we will topple the Minaret and other Blasphemous additions tied to a foreign culture. Tied to a foreign faith. It is our way to survive, to win and to destroy the evil who try to kill and lie. You are merely a vassal of Biden, Destroyer of Yugoslavia and Ukraine. War bringer to the Holy Land. He is evil. But he also showed who you are. Treacherous, week, servile. And you can't stand on your own two feet without a "Slav" or a "Pravo Slav". I don't know who's weaker between you and your olde German foe. You both equally suck when it comes to world domination and trying to subdue a people. For over 1,200 my family has witnessed your incompetence. We were there when "Car"[Csar: Czar: Tsar: Caesar] Konstantin eliminated the challenges to our "Vera" . 1000 years prior to your stain, we were already the protectors of "Rumelia [Balkans] and Carpathia /Karpata/". You're not even a string on the loom. You're not even. A thread of history by comparison. You're merely a "Thrall". A willing Thrall. You are a masochist. One way or another you will serve, by the looks of your disgusting spineless nature. "It is a good day to die".

What did you study? Sounds awesome.

Absolutely. They have learnt from history unfortunately

Seems to be related to modern Russian "gorod" (old Russian "grad") and before it gained the meaning of "city" it meant walls or fortifications. Rus' lands were called Gardariki in old norse which basically means "kingdom of fortifications" or something. So maybe Miklagard means large walls?

​@@N1t3Owlprobably

Gård meant wall, not town. If you go to Istanbul, you'll understand why they called it "large wall"

@@demeter1793 I wrote "gard" quite specifically instead of "gård". It could mean a wall like you pointed to, but it also ment an enclosed area or homestead which became synonymous with a city.

@@rolfnilsen6385 well okay, but the name of the city is Miklagård

Please do the Boulkoleon palace(there’s old pictures of it too) and it’s being restored now

Lol yeah I caught that too, sounded so weird. In Sweden we call it Miklagård, så Norse comes more naturally but "Mickelgarth" has to be the weirdest pronunciation yet lol

Exactly exactly exactly istanbul is beyond pathetic islamic name like the rest of them, Constantinople is such a cool as name like seriously you like making that sound through the mouth itself. I want every European to appreciate history and never let these muslims enter EU ever. They destroy everything if they had ever gotten their hands to ROME 😢 their amazing churches their rich heritage would have been lost.

You are conveniently ignoring the fact that during the Late Ottoman Era the still very much well preserved remains of the Boukoleon Palace were deliberately destroyed by Sultan Abdulhamid II to make way for the railway heading to Sirkeci Station. Lets just hope that its restoration wont end up like that of Suheyl Bey Mosque. Unlike the central government, IBB Miras seems to know what they are doing after all.

Yeah this is just not a thing at all. There was no asia minor civilization that inhabited the city, it was founded by emperor Constantine, the Greek-Roman emperor, and so bears his name. The Turks, like their Seljuq ancestors, raped the greeks and attempted to say that they were never Roman at all when half the empire was Greek and the Eastern Roman Empire lasted until 1453, with the Ottomans LARPing for the next 500 years.

@Da_goat This is not correct especially in the yenikapı excavations they found a lot more older artifacts. They hypothise the people in Göbeklitepe passed bosphorus somewhere around 8000 BC.

@@Da__goatGlorius Kingdom of Bithynia owned that city. And it was called Byzantion. It was founded bu Byzas of Megara kahve 600 years ago from the times of Constantine

This area of the world has the rare luxury of almost literally drowning in historical artefacts.

mate, turkiye existed before that, 🤣 we got 6th century text mentioning turkiye lmao

@@jamworthy14They were as an ethnicity, not as a nation!

@@azwris back then everything was ethnicity. That's how countries are born . It was land of turkiye. It was a nation mate . Omg 😶. Do u know what a tribe is mate ?

@@jamworthy14 Of course I know because I am also into English Grossology. But I can definitely sense some irony in your comments and therefore I don't like to get into a dispute with you. You're going to lose your dignity in public and I'm going to lose my precious time. So long my friend!

@@azwris 😂😶 if u knew u would not make such stupid comments. Now u resort to the lame kindergarten comeback to salvage ur dignity. Ironic 😼

Honestly I don't understand why you think that first part is an improvement...

Still by all standards it is a modern open society with both free and religious side by side. Changes are for much better and competative with many best European cities.

Which is good

idk how cz international status of it is Istanbul not even christian nobles call it con******* you still living in the ages when u were defeated that pain still makes u cry blood lol@nogaysallowed95

That's a common misconception but it's not true. Istanbul comes from Constantinople, with the first and the third syllables dropped in speech. (koSTANtinoPOLi) It's the same thing with Thessaloniki, the second capital of the Byzantines after Constantinople, which was known as Saloniki/Salonica/Selanik around the world before the ancient name was revived in the 20th century. So in the end Constantinople and Istanbul are the same word.

Yeah, they do that for New York too. In the outlying areas when you say I'm going to the city you know what people mean they mean, New York. So in this case, the term Istanbul is actually referring to Constantinople, The City.

In Serbia it was Empire City or Carigrad

Correct!

I have visited Istanbul 8 times and I still want to visit it again and again.

@nogaysallowed95since 1453 İstanbul :)