>In 1687, the Parthenon was extensively damaged in the greatest catastrophe to befall it in its long history. As part of the Great Turkish War (1683-1699), the Venetians sent an expedition led by Francesco Morosini to attack Athens and capture the Acropolis. The Ottoman Turks fortified the Acropolis and used the Parthenon as a gunpowder magazine – despite having been forewarned of the dangers of this use by the 1656 explosion that severely damaged the Propylaea – and as a shelter for members of the local Turkish community. On 26 September a Venetian mortar round, fired from the Hill of Philopappus, blew up the magazine, and the building was partly destroyed. The explosion blew out the building's central portion and caused the cella's walls to crumble into rubble. Greek architect and archaeologist Kornilia Chatziaslani writes that "...three of the sanctuary’s four walls nearly collapsed and three-fifths of the sculptures from the frieze fell. Nothing of the roof apparently remained in place. Six columns from the south side fell, eight from the north, as well as whatever remained from eastern porch, except for one column. The columns brought down with them the enormous marble architraves, triglyphs and metopes." About three hundred people were killed in the explosion, which showered marble fragments over nearby Turkish defenders and caused large fires that burned until the following day and consumed many homes.
The Muslims used the greatest architectural marvel even built by man as a gunpowder storage. Now Muslims are blowing up timeless historical sites.
Really makes you think huh?
Carson Watson
wh*te subhumans destroyed it like they destroyed rome and many ancient civilizations.
Connor Brown
You literally bulldozed every single important historical site in Constantinople you savage.
Mason Fisher
You mean Germanic subhumans. Don't know why you say 'white', it doesn't really mean anything at all tbqh.
Samuel Diaz
nice mene. filthy wh*tes did it during 4th crusade.
Evan Taylor
Are you retarded? Oh wait, you're a Turk.
Isaac White
nice ad-hominem retard. oh wait you are a wh*te
Jace Rodriguez
Crusaders and barbarians destroyed the civilized world completely, the Turks only invaded, changed up a few things, and kept it.
And did they destroy the Parthenon completely? No, they only used it as gunpowder storage and when it blew up, didn't fuck with it any further.
In fact, if there's anyone we should be blaming, its the Venetians who fired upon it instead of firing with smaller guns as to not damage it greatly.
Literally, Turks did nothing wrong.
Connor Green
kill yourself convert
Landon Walker
You're a fucking moron dude. An ad-hominem is all you deserve.
Thomas Gutierrez
>convert I'm being an unbiased historian here, fgt.
And I'm not even Muslim.
Srsly learn2history
Alexander Rodriguez
>Crusaders and barbarians destroyed the civilized world completely
Define barbarian.
Explain to me how the Crusaders destroyed the civilised world as you claim.
Dylan Allen
It's weird how euphorics hate churches but love pagan temples. All that energy drink and chronic masturbation are damaging their brains.
Ethan Gomez
>define barbarian Somebody who went against the might of Rome.
>explain to me how the Crusaders destroyed the civilized world as you claim
Well, they sacked Constantinople alot, like the Turk said, and left it for dead. This is a point you ignored from him and I will re-iterate it.
Plus when the Turks invaded the city in 1453, the other Christian nations didn't even bother to send more reinforcements or failed to do so.
The Turks only sacked it once then left it as it is, thus making them better preservers.
Daniel Baker
>Somebody who went against the might of Rome.
So Rome was the civilised world? You do realise that the Romans were barbarians too at first right? When they conquered Greece the Greeks laughed at the Romans. Times change though, and the new surpasses the old. This is a major point in history. Too bad you are uneducated and are unaware of this.
>Well, they sacked Constantinople alot, like the Turk said, and left it for dead. This is a point you ignored from him and I will re-iterate it.
Eastern Roman empire was the fake Roman empire. Sorry bud, but that's how it is. Also the Turks did inhabit the shell of the empire, not because they were some sort of Classicists, but because they were unable to build anything greater. Just like the mongols did really. You conquer land, but allow the old government to continue its operation.
Jeremiah Ward
>You do realise Romans were barbarians too at first right?
Romans were never barbarians, even at first. They did things better than others, this is what makes you not a barbarian. And thus the Greeks were barbarians anyways as they could not defend themselves effectively against a much better army.
And a much better army really shows how much better you are than the other nation.
>times change, and the new surpasses the old Ofc, but the old sucks ass, which is why Rome won everytime.
And I really hate how you fags make fun of us, even at history, when I'm clearly better than you now in history and in so many things as a nation.
>Eastern Roman Empire was fake If that's true, then why did it constitute as the Roman Empire? They shared similar culture with the Romans even if the language was different.
Also >Turks >not building anything greater And this is why they were meant to be conquerors, not faggot pussies sitting around.
Gabriel Powell
>Eastern Roman Empire was the fake Roman Empire Stopped reading there.
Dominic Nguyen
This. Fucking crusaders weren't saints
Ryan Baker
Indeed Aussie, it really makes you think that, Crusaders, the fighters of the religion we are deeply ingrained with, were actually more evil than their Muslim contemporaries at the time.
Gavin Nguyen
Doesn't mean you should still hold onto the Elgin Marbles
Ayden Diaz
The Brits basically looted Greece and Egypt during the height of the British Empire. Many of the artifacts are still in British hands and are a source of contention with these countries. So shut up and pot kettle black.
Jordan Rivera
>greatest architectural marvel even built by man
Juan Ross
"Greeks" back then spoke Albanian and herded goats. They didn't care about the ruins around them. There was no reason to since it wasn't their culture that built them.
Jason Diaz
Mehmet detected.
Jaxson Williams
Greeks back then were a hodge-podge of races. Albanians in Greece were the warrior class that were invited by Byzantines, venitians, Catalans and Turks to settle in Greece. This is why much of the heroes of the Greek independence war were in fact Albanian. The rest being Slavs, Armenians, Vlachs, Arabs, and Turks.
Jace Reed
your a dorable
Michael Torres
Albanian ethnicity is a 20th century invention based on a 16th century crime report Even slav nations seem ancient to your history
Aiden Wood
I thought the shitalians did that. The whites destroyed Greece not the Turks.
Jayden Martinez
This fuck europe
Jace Jones
The whites did the same Burn them all
Carter Flores
ISIS has been doing that since they became a thing Doesn't surprise me.
Oliver Sullivan
>Literally, Turks did nothing wrong. They were shit
David Young
And Americans one of the oldest mosques in Iraq as a watchtower during the war and it was destroyed.
Michael Moore
Subhuman non white
Cooper Foster
Subhuman analbanian Never trust mew world flags
Matthew Sanders
That is a good thing because islam is shit
Oliver Myers
>build mosques not walls ok
Carson Ortiz
>ITT:
Jaxson Reyes
mongols and turkics are subhumans all nomad people are subhumans
Logan Miller
>The Acropolis was besieged twice during the Greek War of Independence, once by the Greeks and once by the Ottoman forces. During the first siege the Greeks offered the besieged Ottoman forces, who were attempting to melt the lead in the columns to cast bullets, bullets of their own if they would leave the Parthenon undamaged
Jaxon Perez
the romans considered germans to be the worst kind of sunhumans too
Jason Gray
>Germans are sunhumans
Sunhumans, I like that. Germans are bright and blonde.
Caleb Young
ah fuck, you get what I was saying anyway
Gabriel Ramirez
>basically looted Thats far better than bulldozing.
John Myers
Why don't Greeks fix it?
Jaxson Smith
>Even slav nations seem ancient to your history
Why do Greeks always shit on us? We never harmed any Greek, we even took some Greek refugees during the cold war and all we get in return is hate.
Nolan Powell
The Greeks too
Not for Greece
Nobody cares about you
Nolan Thompson
>greeks massacre latins in constantinople >latins sack constantinople
>cherry pick an event about turks where VENETIANS fired on the pathenon and destroyed it . wh*te logic
Carter Butler
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Sebastian Jenkins
Μost of your fucbois are assholes Like Bulgarians Croatians Ukrainians Bosnians >we even took some Greek refugees during the cold war the problem is you didn't kill them
Ayden Gomez
>And this is why they were meant to be conquerors, not faggot pussies sitting around.
Can you even read yourself?
Joshua White
>They did things better than others, this is what makes you not a barbarian. And thus the Greeks were barbarians anyways as they could not defend themselves effectively against a much better army. >Americans in charge of defining the word barbarian
>a much better army Pyrrhus of Epirus destroyed the Roman army countless of times Most of the battles the Romans fought against the Greeks they had Greek allies
Oh and "Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror" - Horace
Xavier Johnson
Epirotes were barbarians like the Macedonians, they weren't Greek. If you want to credit a Greek defeating a Roman army use Xanthippus.
Ryder Hill
We laek slavs irl desu just bantz
Gabriel Campbell
>this analbanian subhuman
your life and genetics are so trash you only speak shit in chinese imageboards, if you dared to open your shit filled analbanian mouth here you would be hanged from your dick
Leo Hughes
Albanians will always be slavic fuckboys. Goats and manure are more human than analbanians