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May 15, 2018 · Discover Viking Runes at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey: A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.
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Discover the Vikings’ presence in ancient Turkey. Learn about their raids on the Bosphorus and cultural impact.
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Jun 29, 2015 · Istanbul – “Miklagard”. Huge city walls facing the land and sea met the Vikings when they sailed in to Constantinople mooring at the harbour in the Golden Horn. The city was the largest the Vikings knew of and it is not so strange that the Vikings referred to the city as Miklagard (The Great City). The great wealth of the city soon made ...
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Let me ask you a question: when did the Roman Empire fall? If you answered sometime in the late 5th century CE, I'm afraid you'd only be partly right. Between 235 and 284 CE, the Roman Empire suffered a series of near-fatal crises resulting from civil war, economic depression, the mass migration of "climate change refugees," and a good old dose of ...
By the time of the first Viking raids, in the late 8th century CE, the Eastern Roman Empire (henceforth "Byzantine Empire" for clarity's sake) had seen centuries of cultural and political change transform it beyond recognition from being simply the half of the Roman Empire that didn't collapse. Yes, there were still recognizable institutions – from...
Like the Byzantine missionaries who had traveled northward to the lands of the Slavic people, a huge swathe of Europe between what is now eastern Germany and Russia, peoples from Viking societies had traveled there too. By the 9th century, these people – who were called "Rus" were slowly establishing the foundation of what would become, by the cent...
Given much less publicity than the Vikings' often bloody raiding and pillage is the economic prowess of peoples in Viking societies. Helping to piece together the economic links shattered by the fall of the Western Roman Empire, commerce underpinned the Viking expansion throughout much of the early medieval period. After first encountering the Byza...
From Viking merchants plying their trade in the streets of Constantinople to Viking longboats ominously raiding the coastal communities of the Turkish coast to one of the Byzantine Emperor's most trusted sources of personal protection being, quite literally, Vikings, the history of Türkiye, during the early medieval period, has a strong Norse flavo...
Nov 23, 2022 · With that, the Vikings played a part in connecting the east to the west. This is where the story circles back to the Arabic ring found in the Viking grave, as their connections to the east show that the ring could indeed have traveled westwards, following one of the Vikings who had ties to Istanbul.
Aug 27, 2020 · Archaeologists in Turkey have found what they believe to be a Viking mercenary district near Istanbul. The area dates back to the Middle Ages when Istanbul was known as Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire. The discoveries are providing more evidence on the role of Viking mercenaries in the Byzantine Empire.
May 31, 2024 · PRICE & BUILD. REQUEST A QUOTE. Witness the origin of civilization as you cruise the fabled Aegean Sea. Spend two days in majestic Istanbul, with its Byzantine treasures and intriguing blend of Eastern and Western influences. Travel to the ruins of Troy, long steeped in myth and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
