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🔴 YOU WANT TO SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL? 🔴 🤗 Join our Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/Maiorianus 🤗 One-Time Donation? - PayPal: https://paypal.me/Maiorianus - Bitcoin: bc1qv4lsfsplvfecrrgvmfclhga28we7mvh9563xdj 🔗 Share the video with anyone who might be interested (it helps a ton!) 👍 Subscribe to our videos FOR FREE! 📬 Contact us: maiorianus.sebastian@gmail.com The city of Constantinople, the new Rome, Nova Roma, is besides the old Rome, one of the most fascinating cities of antiquity and the middle ages. Seldomly did a city exert such a fascination onto the minds of people, as the mighty fortified city on the Bosphorus did. I already talked about Constantinople in two separate videos, in one I analyzed the appearance of the city around the year AD 540, and in another one, I compared it to the old Rome. But what about the city before Constantine made it his new capital. How did the city actually look before it became the new Christian capital of first the Roman Empire, and later after the West fell, of the Eastern Roman Empire? How did the city look when it was still called Byzantium, so before AD 330?

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🔴 YOU WANT TO SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL? 🔴 🤗 Join our Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/Maiorianus 🤗 One-Time Donation? - PayPal: https://paypal.me/Maiorianus - Bitcoin: bc1qv4lsfsplvfecrrgvmfclhga28we7mvh9563xdj 🔗 Share the video with anyone who might be interested (it helps a ton!) 👍 Subscribe to our videos FOR FREE! 📬 Contact us: maiorianus.sebastian@gmail.com By now, we have examined the state of the city of Rome, all the way from its zenith in AD 320, until the onset of the dark ages in Italy, so around AD 600. In this video now, we want to analyze the state of not only Rome, but of the whole of Italy, some 200 years later, around the year 800. How did Rome look in that time? How did Italy look in that time? And how was life back then in those times in the former heartland of the Western Roman Empire?