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Pope Nicholas V, who died OTD in 1455, called for a crusade against the Ottoman Turks after they captured #Constantinople in 1453; it never materialized https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/istanbul/?s=mb #travel #Turkey #history

İstanbul is Constantinople: Hagia Sofia, Blue Mosque, the Grand Bazaar, and strolling along the Golden Horn.

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Today is the feast day of Saint Isaac the Confessor, 4th century founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at #Constantinople https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/istanbul/?s=mb #travel #Turkey #history

İstanbul is Constantinople: Hagia Sofia, Blue Mosque, the Grand Bazaar, and strolling along the Golden Horn.

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İstanbul is Constantinople: Hagia Sofia, Blue Mosque, the Grand Bazaar, and strolling along the Golden Horn.

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Today is the feast day of Nikephoros I of #Constantinople, Byzantine writer and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from April 12, 806, to March 13, 815 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/istanbul/?s=mb #travel #Turkey #history

İstanbul is Constantinople: Hagia Sofia, Blue Mosque, the Grand Bazaar, and strolling along the Golden Horn.

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İstanbul is Constantinople: Hagia Sofia, Blue Mosque, the Grand Bazaar, and strolling along the Golden Horn.

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The bones of Saint Nicephorus were interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles in #Constantinople OTD in 874 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/istanbul/?s=mb #travel #Turkey #history

İstanbul is Constantinople: Hagia Sofia, Blue Mosque, the Grand Bazaar, and strolling along the Golden Horn.

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Intérieur, Mosquée Ste Sophie, Stamboul, Constantinople, 1911 - Jsraelowitz CPA

İstanbul is Constantinople: Hagia Sofia, Blue Mosque, the Grand Bazaar, and strolling along the Golden Horn.

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Toilets in churches, in monasteries, at religious sites, and toilet regulations of various religions. All this and more on the Toilets of the World.

Toilets of the World

🪙 Roman Empire Solidus — Theodosius I, 378–383 AD

Obverse: Draped and cuirassed bust of Theodosius I facing right, wearing a diadem. Legend: D N THEODO-SIVS P F AVG.

Reverse: Constantinopolis seated facing on a throne, head right wearing a mural crown, holding a globe in her left hand and a sceptre in her right, right foot resting on a ship's prow. Legend: CONCOR-DIA AVGGG // CONOB.

📏 21 mm · ⚖️ 4,38 g · 🥇 Gold

📖 RIC IX 43b

🏛️ Department for Ancient History, University of Freiburg (Inv. 10051)

🔗 https://ikmk.uni-freiburg.de/object?id=ID12829

Shot using a Sony A 7R V, 100 mm, at f/8.0, ISO 100, 1/250 s.

25 photos were focus-stacked for each picture.

Disclosure of generative AI use: removal of single fibres from the rim of the coin.

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