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>The Hippodrome was heavily looted by the Latins during the 4th Crusade, a portion of its walls were collapsed and most of its monuments were damaged, stolen or destroyed.
>The famous bronze quadriga (four-horse chariot) statue atop the Hippodrome was taken to Venice, where it still stands today above St. Markโs Basilica.
>The Hippodrome fell into ruin afterwards and was eventually cleared during the Ottoman period.
spoils of war
every army for every civilisation in history has done this
>>211793988 (OP)they are uncivilized barbarians
>>211793988 (OP)errmmm chuddie Italy did not exist at the time so they weren't Italians and it's not our fault
>>211793988 (OP)Literally fuck society and also unions that don't personally empower you.
>Oh the heckin starving peasants in the middle of an apocalypse caused by decadent elites are cutting heads off bronze statues to buy farmland to feed their retarded malnourished families - what barbarians!
>>211793988 (OP)those niggers unironically deserved it for doing pic related
>>211794562>>211794597>remember the 6 gorillion!!!Only a few hundreds were killed. And it was because they were giga-jewing the Byzantine government with their wealth. They had a puppet empress running the country that was then overthrown.
>>211794843>Only a few hundreds were killedEven if that were true, would that make the massacre okay?
>>211794405iirc there was a proposal in Turkey to restore but Erdogan kept denying it because he didn't want the opposition to look they're doing stuff or something like that
What's with anons bullying Italianos today? There's also this thread
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>>211794562they were the equivalent of americans jews back then
>>211794843Those thousands could have made a difference against the turkoids later on but whatever, gayreeks chose self destruction so they could larp as romans till the end