The Boukoleon Palace: Byzantium's Lost Waterfront
The Boukoleon Palace was the seat of Byzantine power for centuries, clinging to the Marmara shore below the Great Palace. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the palace's origins under Theodosius II, its expansion by Justinian, and its transformation into a fortress-palace after the Fourth Crusade. They trace the story of the harbour of Hormisdas, the legendary statue of a bull and lion that gave the palace its name, and the tragic final days of the Palaiologoi emperors who watched their empire shrink from its windows. The episode also covers the palace's afterlife under the Ottomans, who used its stones for their own buildings, and the 19th-century railway that cut through its remains. A story of power, ruin, and the relentless reshaping of a city.
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Fler avsnitt av Constantinople to Istanbul: How a City Changed the World — Fexingo History
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