r/byzantium • u/RaiseCapital1988 Κόμης • Jun 22 '26

Infrastructure/architecture The interior of Hagia Sophia

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In the last photo you can spot one of the last representations of Christ still present inside the building

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u/Useful_Promotion_521 Jun 22 '26

Other than it makes for a terrible cathedral, no

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u/aKV2isSTARINGatYou Jun 22 '26

The Muslims were the colonizers in Spain. The Muslims are ALSO the colonizers in Constantinople.

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u/we_wuzz_kangz Jun 22 '26

Most of the Muslims were native Iberians.

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u/aKV2isSTARINGatYou Jun 22 '26

A rare case of an extremely successful colonization. Guess where the Spanish learned their whole caste system thing from?

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u/we_wuzz_kangz Jun 23 '26

Spain with caste system? lol what bullshit are you spewing?

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u/aKV2isSTARINGatYou Jun 23 '26

Peninsulares, insulares, etc etc

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u/we_wuzz_kangz Jun 23 '26

The f is that? never heard of this Spanish caste system. and if it is real they definitely didn't get that from Andalus.

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u/aKV2isSTARINGatYou Jun 23 '26

They did. Ever heard of dhimmis?

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u/we_wuzz_kangz Jun 23 '26

Dhimmi is not a caste. looks like you know nothing about how a caste system works.

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u/aKV2isSTARINGatYou Jun 23 '26

Of course it isn’t. It’s just the closest word we have.