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The Varangian guard were in Constantinople. So kinda sorta “Roman-controlled” but not exactly Rome.
by staticautomatic 4y ago
The Varangian guard were in Constantinople. So kinda sorta “Roman-controlled” but not exactly Rome.
- notart666 4y agoWell not exactly it was throughout Roman controlled territories throughout hundreds of years not just a single place. Often times mercenaries and raider groups. In places like the France especially. Many settlements and colonies were established and in places like north Germany it's predominately still Scandinavian. And I don't mean Denmark but Hamburg. It's where Hitler got his whole rhetoric about the superior Nordic race and the inferior slavs even though he was from Austria and Germanic not Scandinavian.
- barry-cotter 4y agoHow was it “kinda sorta”? They were the direct, unbroken, legal and institutional continuance of the Roman Empire.
- tokai 4y agoNo its exactly Rome. That is what they would have called themselves and they had the provenance to back it up.
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- Mikeb85 4y agoConstantinople was part of the Roman Empire (as the name implies, it was 'founded' by the Roman emperor Constantine) and considered itself the Roman empire until it fell.
- staticautomatic 4y agoSure. I just mean that if you didn’t know better, you might conclude from the parent comment that the Varangian guard were geographically based in Rome.
- moviewise 4y agoQuoth They Might Giants, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)": Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlO39kCQ-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlO39kCQ-8