Μᾶς ἔχει πρήξῃ τὰ συκώτια τὀ κλασσικὸ δίλημμα κίνηση ἤ ἁκινησία. Λοιπὸν ἀκινησία. Τώρα, τί θὰ γίνει μὲ τὸν πόνο καὶ τὶς χαμένες εὐκαιρίες ποὺ ἔχουν συσσωρευτῆι; Πρῶτα ἀπὸ ὅλα θὰ ἐπιτεθοῦμε κατευθείαν στὴν ῥίζα τοῦ κακοῦ ποὺ εἶναι ἡ κίνηση. Ἡ κίνηση εἶναι μιὰ ἀναστολή. Τώρα θὰ δῆτε, Ἐρινύες.
Δευτέρα, 1 Οκτωβρίου 2018
ReplyDelete6 - Why the Roman (Ottoman) Empire under Süleyman the Great was more tolerant than under the Roman Byzantine) Empire under Justinian the Great : The case of Armenia, one of the founder nations of the Ottoman Ecumenical Empire
1461- The Founding of the Armenian Millet-Patriarchate in Constantinople
6 - Why the Roman (Ottoman) Empire under Süleyman the Great was more tolerant than under the Roman Byzantine) Empire under Justinian the Great : The case of Armenia, one of the founder nations of the Ottoman Ecumenical Empire
(I just received the following letter from a good friend and distinguished Armenian (as well as American and Greek), Diran Majarian, mourning today the death of Charles Aznavour, at the age of 94. Aznavour was an Armenian like Diran and a Frenchman like myself. Dimitri Kitsikis)
Dimitris: This morning we celebrated Agios Grigorios in church. The Armenian Church separated from the other churches from the 4th Ecumenical Council. In fact, the Armenians were at war with the Persians, who wanted to force them to abandon their Christianity to become Zoroastrians like they were. They were unable to send any representative. The Byzantines would forbid any Armenian Churches in Constantinople for centuries thereafter. The Armenians occupying key positions in Byzantium were largely Hayirum like myself – they belonged to the Byzantine Church.
After the fall of Constantinople, the agreement with Gennadios led to the Greek Millet. The Greeks correctly preferring the Ottomans to the West to keep the Orthodox faith intact. The Turks called the Armenians and offered to them a similar arrangement. The first Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople was Hovakim I (Ἰωακείμ Α΄), who was at the time the Metropolitan of Bursa. In 1461, he was brought to Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II and established as the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople. Armenians were permitted freely to build their churches that the Byzantines had forbidden.
The current Armenia - which is Eastern Armenia - was part of Persia until the 1828, when the Russians conquered the space along with Azerbaijan from the Persians. They had taken the space earlier from the Ottomans. Ever since the Armenians have had a very close relation with the Russians. The Russians recruited heavily Armenians to fight the Ottomans in WW1 and the biggest, bloodiest Ottoman defeat was the Battle of Sarıkamış by a Russian-Armenian army. This disastrous defeat under mainly Armenians enraged the three Pashas and is one of the basic factors - never discussed - in the Armenian Genocide.
The Bolshevik revolution financed and supported by the Germans resulted in Brest Litovsk. This was a disaster for the Ottoman Greeks and Armenians stranded with the Russian withdrawal. Eventually Lenin recognizing and arming Kemal that led to the defeat of the Greeks in Asia Minor.
I will never understand why the Greeks love so much the Bolsheviks, the KKE, etc. I have enormous respect for the Russians, who survived the Bolsheviks, restored their Orthodox Christianity and national identity. The Greeks have done the opposite with the EU and surrendered national identity, ironically under a SYRIZA government who are successors of the Bolsheviks. They are as culturally Greek as Jehovah’s witnesses have any relation to Orthodox Christianity. A major reason in my mind why Greece in its current state could never play the elder father to the Russians. The Russians would never take them seriously, especially with a government of Orthodox apostates and declared Atheists totally beholden to the EU as a protectorate. Not exactly as basis for respect that Ioannis Metaxas considered so important in international relations.
ReplyDeleteCurrently in Istanbul, there are at least 5 to 10 times more Armenians than Greeks as well as an enormous number of Armenian migrants. The current Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II Mutafyan suffers Alzheimer disease and is incapacitated. In his place was appointed a caretaker Aram Ateşyan. The Armenian Synod decided to retire the Patriarch Mesrob II Mutafyan on October 26, 2016 and to organize an election for a new patriarch, which the Turkish State under Erdogan has been blocking. Erdogan prefers Ateşyan, with whom he has extremely good relations and does not want him to leave.In essence, the Millet system remains in part and Erdogan acts accordingly.
Diran Majarian October 1, 2018