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A HIDDEN TREASURE FROM TROY TO CONSTANTINOPLE-
ARE YOU READY TO ANALYZE HISTORICAL FACTS? PEOPLE USUALLY SAY ''HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF''...WELL TO TELL THE TRUTH THAT STATEMENT AT FIRST SEEMS CORRECT.REMEMBER HOW ONE OF MY MISSIONS IN LIFE WAS TO SEARCH FOR CORRECT INFORMATION.SO IS THAT STATEMENT CORRECT OR NOT? CORRECT INFORMATION IS WHERE THE BORDER FOR ME IS.MY ''TO BE OR NOT TO BE QUESTION'' STARTS WITH THE FOURTH CRUSSADES.WHAT POSSIBLE EVIDENCE DO WE HAVE TODAY THAT LINKS THIS VENETIAN LED RELIGIOUS MISSION TO END UP IN CONSTANTINOPLE RATHER THAN IN JERUSALEM?THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF ALL THE CRUSSADE MISSIONS WERE TO RECAPTURE JERUSALEM FROM THE MUSLIMS.SO WHY WAS THE FOURTH CRUSSADE AN EXCEPTION AND WHAT LINK CAN WE POSSIBLY MAKE WITH THIS PICTURE TODAY?
TO UNDERSTAND ALL THIS DILEMMA FIRST WE MUST GO BACK TO 1275 BC AND SEARCH FOR WHAT HAPPENED AT THE TROJAN WAR WHICH LASTED SOME TEN YEARS ACCORDING TO MYTHOLOGY AND THE ACHAEANS(GREEKS) DESTROYED THE SIXTH CITY OF TROY BY BURNING IT DOWN TO ASHES.THERE ARE DIFFERENCES AMONGST HISTORIANS,FILM PRODUCERS AND MYTHOLOGY OF HOMER'S THE ILIAD AND THE ODDYSEY HOWEVER OF THE TWO MOVIES THAT I REMEMBER WATCHING THE EARLIER ONE WAS CALLED ''THE HELEN OF TROY''(2003) WITH COLIN FARELL AND ANGELINA JOLIE WHILE THE LATTER ONE WAS WITH BRAD PITT AND DIANE KRUGER IN ''TROY''(2004).
OF ALL THE DIFFERENCES AS FAR AS I COULD SEE ONE SIGNIFICANT DETAIL IN ''TROY'' WAS WHEN PARIS GIVES THE SWORD OF TROY TO AENEAS SO HE CAN LEAVE THE BURNING CITY ALIVE ALONG WITH HIS OLD LIMPING FATHER AND TELLS HIM WITH THIS SWORD NEXT CITY OF TROY WILL BE WHERE HE WILL SETTLE DOWN.
I HAD BEEN IN CONTACT WITH SOME ITALIAN HISTORIANS AS EARLY AS 1995 WHEN THEY WERE RESEARCHING THE HISTORY OF THE ROMANS.OF COURSE WE ALL KNOW THAT TODAYS ITALIANS WERE ONCE UPON A TIME ROMANS BUT WHERE HAD THE ROMANS HAD COME FROM? THESE SCHOLARS CONCLUDED THEIR INVESTIGATION BY THE BEGINNING OF 2003 AND ON THE 10TH. OF MAY 2003 THE NEMI MAYOR FROM ITALY ALESSANDRO BIAGGI CAME TO VISIT HIS TROJAN COUNTERPART KASIM AKIN;THE MAYOR OF INTEPE THEN AND ERENKÖY TODAY AND THEY SIGNED A PROTOCOL DECLARING EACH OTHER AS SISTER CITIES.TO MAKE A LONG STORY AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE THE SCHOLARS HAD ENOUGH EVIDENCE SO THEY COULD ANNOUNCE THE NEXT CITY OF TROY HAD BEEN NEMI SOME 3300 YEARS AGO.SO AENEAS AND HIS OLD LIMPING FATHER ACCORDING TO MYTHOLOGY AND THE PRODUCERS OF THE MOVIE ''TROY''; HAD GONE TO ITALY AND SETTLED IN NEMI.
BY THE WAY NEMI TODAY IS 24KM(15MILES) TO ROME AND THE PAPAL SUMMER RESIDANCE IS LOCATED BY THE LAKE OF NEMI.SO NOW IT IS HIGH TIME TO TELL ALL YOUR ITALIAN FRIENDS THAT THEIR ANCESTORS CAME FROM TROY.
IF YOU ARE SURPRISED BY NOW I URGE YOU TO STAY WITH ME TILL THE END OF THIS BLOG SO YOU CAN FULLY APPRECIATE WHAT A REAL HIDDEN TREASURE THIS IS FROM TROY TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
NEXT I WILL TAKE YOU TO 16 JULY 1054 AD WHEN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE ANATHEMATIZED EACH OTHER FOR THEIR DIFFERENCES WHICH IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE GREAT SCHISM; A HUGE SPLIT THAT STILL REMAINS UNTIL NOW DESPITE GREAT EFFORTS FROM BOTH CHURCHES TO REUNITE.
IN APRIL 1204 CONSTANTINOPLE WAS CAPTURED BY THE 4TH.CRUSSADES UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF ENRICO DANDOLO WHO WAS THE DOGE OF VENICE WHOSE AMBITION WAS TO LOOT CONSTANTINOPLE FROM ITS RICHES.WHEN HE DIED IN 1205 HE WAS 7O YEARS OLD AND WAS BURIED IN THE UPPER GALLERY OF ST.SOPHIA.BY THE TIME THE CITY WAS RECAPTURED BY THE BYZANTINE EMPEROR MICHEAL THE 8TH. IN 1261 ENDING A 57 YEAR OLD OCCUPATION BY THE LATIN EMPIRE;THIS HISTORIC CITY WAS IN RUINS AND THAT WAS THE WORST DESTRUCTION IN THE HISTORY OF ISTANBUL.
SO HERE IS MY TAKE:I CAN UNDERSTAND LOOTING FOR ITS RICHES BUT CAN YOU TELL ME WHY THE 4TH.CRUSSADES HAD TO BURN IT DOWN TO ASHES AS THEY LOST ITS CONTROL AND LEFT THE CITY? THEIR HISTORIC HATRED IN MY OPINION HAD TWO MOTIVATIONS:1-THEY WERE CATHOLICS AND THE BYZANTINE CITY WAS OF THE ORTHODOX BELIEF.2-AS THE CITIZENS OF CONSTANTINOPLE WERE MOSTLY GREEKS THE LATINS COULD NEVER FORGET THE ACHAEANS WHO WERE ALSO GREEKS AND HAD COME TO BURN TROY SOME 2500 YEARS AGO.THIS WAS THE STORY TOLD BY HOMER FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT BY WORD OF MOUTH.THEREFORE THE VENETIAN ITALIAN CATHOLIC CRUSSADERS WERE TAKING THE REVENGE OF THEIR FOREFATHERS FROM TROY.THE UPSHOT OF HOW I INTERPRET THOSE COMMUNITIES EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE ALL CHRISTIANS AND EVEN THOUGH THE MISSION OF THE CRUSSADES WAS TO RELIEVE JERUSALEM DEEP DOWN THEY HAD RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL CONNATATIONS WAS THE REAL REASON IN MY OPINION FOR BURNING DOWN CONSTANTINOPLE.
GUIDES ARE STORY TELLERS; JUST LIKE HOMER HAD WRITTEN ABOUT THE TROJAN WAR SOME FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER IT HAD TAKEN PLACE.UNTIL HE PUT IT INTO WRITING IT WAS CARRIED FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT BY THE STORY TELLERS.WHAT MADE HIM THE FATHER OF WESTERN LITERATURE WAS THE VERY FACT THAT HE CHOOSE TO WRITE IT DOWN IN HIS EPIC STORY; THE ILIAD.I DO NOT REMEMBER HOW MANY TIMES I TOLD MY GROUP MEMEBERS THIS VERY STORY BUT ONE THING IS FOR SURE IN THIS VERY BLOG I WROTE IT FOR THE FIRST TIME DOWN FOR ALL THE FUTURE GENERATIONS.
LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST;THE BRITISH AND THE OTTOMAN FORCES SIGNED THE MONDROS TREATY ON 30 OCTOBER 1918;WITH WHICH THE OTTOMANS SURRENDERED THEIR ARMS AND ACCEPTED DEFEAT AND IF YOU THINK THAT WAS A COINCIDENCE WHEN IT WAS SIGNED ON THE BRITISH HMS AGAMEMNON;THE PREDREADNOUGHT BATTLESHIP THEN ALL THIS BLOG IS NOTHING BUT A CONSPIRACY THEORY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.
MY NEXT BLOG WILL BE ON THE ANALYSIS OF HAND-KNOTTED TURKISH CARPET DESIGNS.