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Two Kaisers Both Alike In Dignity, In Fair He Stan Poli Where We Lay Our Scene...
The Hagia Sophia, Greek for Saint or Holy Wisdom, in Istanbul today near where the old Hippodrome and Imperial Palace was, was built starting in 532 after the deadliest riot in recorded history destroyed the old church. When completed, the Roman emperor Justinian stood in it and said he had surpassed Solomon who had built the temple in Jerusalem (he died just about 5 years before Muhammad was born. Sources vary). A thousand years later, almost exactly, Suleiyman the Magnificent was the emperor in the same city, who held his prayers in the same building which his ancestor, Mehmet the Conqueror, had rechristened (almost literally in this case I suppose) as a mosque. Both Justinian and Suleiyman were known for their codified law codes and expanded their empires around the Mediterranean Sea.
The title is a play on the introduction scene in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and both Suleiyman and Justinian both held the title of Kaiser in the Greek language.
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The Hagia Sophia, Greek for Saint or Holy Wisdom, in Istanbul today near where the old Hippodrome and Imperial Palace was, was built starting in 532 after the deadliest riot in recorded history destroyed the old church. When completed, the Roman emperor Justinian stood in it and said he had surpassed Solomon who had built the temple in Jerusalem (he died just about 5 years before Muhammad was born. Sources vary). A thousand years later, almost exactly, Suleiyman the Magnificent was the emperor in the same city, who held his prayers in the same building which his ancestor, Mehmet the Conqueror, had rechristened (almost literally in this case I suppose) as a mosque. Both Justinian and Suleiyman were known for their codified law codes and expanded their empires around the Mediterranean Sea.
The title is a play on the introduction scene in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and both Suleiyman and Justinian both held the title of Kaiser in the Greek language.
#history
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