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A Portolan Chart of the Atlantic Ocean and Adjacent Continents, by Pascual Ruiz, 1633.
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"It's like poetry, it rhymes."
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> Be Roman Emperor Maximinus
> Declare a religious war (pagan crusade) against the first Christian state
> Get defeated astoundly to the point of assumption that gods either abandoned or cursed you
> Your campaign ends in disaster and you die
> Total Christ Victory
This month is the 1714th anniversary of the 1st War in Defense of Christianity.
In the November of 312 AD, the Roman Emperor Maximinus Daia instigated a "Pagan Crusade" & invaded Armenia in order to persecute the Christian state, only to be defeated by the forces of King Trdat, near the frontier of Armenia Minor, marking this event as the 1st War in Defence of Christianity.
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This month is the 1714th anniversary of the 1st War in Defense of Christianity.
In the November of 312 AD, the Roman Emperor Maximinus Daia instigated a "Pagan Crusade" & invaded Armenia in order to persecute the Christian state, only to be defeated by the forces of King Trdat, near the frontier of Armenia Minor, marking this event as the 1st War in Defence of Christianity.
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Short excerpts from Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History on this Roman-Armenian War.
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Additional context on this event is provided from Ethiopian Manuscripts (translated from Coptic or Alexandrian Greek originals) dating to the 5th c. AD, which mention that the Armenian forces were led by one of the Trdat's Knights, Sargis, who personally killed the Roman Emperor.
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The notion, which served as prelude to war, was the decision of Armenia to interfere in stopping Christian persecutions in neighbouring regions after the martyrdoms of Lucian of Antioch & Peter of Alexandria, thus sparking the war known as the First Crusade or "War of the Cross".
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Replying to @DArmenicus
We see this also exemplified in early Crusader period & late Crusader period among both Muslim and Crusader alike.
1. Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn (1179–1229).
2. When the Crusader, Johann Schiltberger, visited the region in 1396-1427 AD, he remarked on Tiflis being an Armenian kingdom.
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Replying to @DArmenicus
However, what's not prevalent or consistent is the concept of "G*orgia'", which as a notion of some separate territory from Armenia is a relatively recent, post-1600s idea.
Black Sea access and the north were generally either titled with Armenia or 'Armenia Minor'.
5. Fernão Vaz Dourado, 1570
6. Abraham Ortelius, 16th C.
7. Jodocus Hondius, 1609
8. Maximilian Dufrène, 1600s
(so on and so forth)
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And yes, Anatolia was ours
And yes, Caucasus was ours.
1. Ignazio Danti, 16th c.
2. Hessel Gerritsz, 1612
3. Sebastián Fernández de Medrano
4. Portolan Charts of the Old & New World, 1580
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Some more here. I won’t include the ones in dire conditions, and will neither include the ones who had their inscriptions scrapped and reappropriated.
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An extensive list of some 27 Armenian churches were destroyed in Tiflis, with the rest remaining abandoned to this day due to the refusal of the Georgian Church to give them back to Armenian Apostolic Church.
Somehow, they also failed to restore them.
> Be Roman Emperor Maximinus
> Declare a religious war (pagan crusade) against the first Christian state
> Get defeated astoundly to the point of assumption that gods either abandoned or cursed you
> Your campaign ends in disaster and you die
> Total Christ Victory
This month is the 1714th anniversary of the 1st War in Defense of Christianity.
In the November of 312 AD, the Roman Emperor Maximinus Daia instigated a "Pagan Crusade" & invaded Armenia in order to persecute the Christian state, only to be defeated by the forces of King Trdat, near the frontier of Armenia Minor, marking this event as the 1st War in Defence of Christianity.
This month is the 1714th anniversary of the 1st War in Defense of Christianity.
In the November of 312 AD, the Roman Emperor Maximinus Daia instigated a "Pagan Crusade" & invaded Armenia in order to persecute the Christian state, only to be defeated by the forces of King Trdat, near the frontier of Armenia Minor, marking this event as the 1st War in Defence of Christianity.
Additional context on this event is provided from Ethiopian Manuscripts (translated from Coptic or Alexandrian Greek originals) dating to the 5th c. AD, which mention that the Armenian forces were led by one of the Trdat's Knights, Sargis, who personally killed the Roman Emperor.

















































