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Unrelated but I remember reading that the Doge of venice was the first person ever to be buried in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
by crop_rotation 1y ago
Unrelated but I remember reading that the Doge of venice was the first person ever to be buried in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
- Apocryphon 1y agoVenetians big stunting on the Eastern Christians since the Fourth Crusade
- boomboomsubban 1y agoWorth noting it had been around for nearly seven hundred years, people weren't commonly buried there. And the other poster is right, it happened as the Doge sacked Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade.