Why the two cultures that dominated for nearly two millennia, in the cradle of civilizations Balkans and the Middle East can not be merged, and even coexisted !! ..
Byzantine army Ottoman army
The Romans who became later Byzantines were VERY hard to impose the monotheistic faith of Jews with the Christian doctrine that they chose, and it tooks to them one thousand of years after it's selection as an official religion, to make it the only creed and dogma in the Byzantine Empire. In many cases, by fire and sword against the prevailing Ancient Greek and Roman deities.Considering it as UNIQUE priority, they closed the Plato's Academy, destroyed the library of Alexandria, They also closed the Ancient Olympia and imposed by force the old Jewish tradition and the orthodox Trinitarian Christian faith.
Muslims especially the Arabs of + -800 periond ,created the school of wisdom in Baghdad where they preserved and translated in the Arabic language the great Greek classics,and later ,by translations from Arabic into Latin the Planet path was launched to the Renaissance .
The school of wisdom destroyed (around 1250) by the Mongols.
The Ottoman Muslims appeared in the early 13th century as a small group and began to flank the religionists monastery Byzantium, starting from the region of Bursa. In the areas they occupied. they showed a great tolerance for religious diversity . In 1453 they took the capital of Byzantium Constantinople, and in their climax later approached the Vienna. The theocratic and authoritarian status of them,in comparing with the new west status of enlightenment, democracy and the industrial revolution... was far behid !! , then the Ottoman Empire. became the great vast patient.In the new West created the need for routing of Balkan people in various ethnic groups.
In our region instead of classical was chosen the Byzantine Greece, which was based on the Orthodox Christian tradition, that had respectfully protected under Ottoman domination.
The wars of independence in Balkans created intense hatred between the Christian and Muslim populations,with purges against Muslim citizens,in the territories wehere the revolution prevailed, and reprisals with purges by the Ottomans in the territories that they controled.. The emergence of the Young Turks and their revolution, brought an effort for interior modernization in the Otoman empire .
The leader who became known Kemal Ataturk passed strictly the western culture and alphabet, in the remaining Ottoman empire, and tried by persecution or exchanging Christian people with muslims, to do the same that the new Byzadin Greek state did . ONE COUNTRY ONE (fortunately less powerfull) RELIGION and created the new Turkey.
Ancient monuments in Bitola Skopje (Spring 2015)
Is there any spear that could make the people of Balkans to be together? I think that there is and it is the strongest. It is the classical great ancient Greek civilization. I think that in any state that is appeared, to be supported by the other Balkan people and states. I observed such a move lately in Skopje,with statues and shields of the great Alexander and his father Philip.. and looks to be accepted by the Christian and the Muslim community..
I believe that the ministries and the people of the neighboring countries must interpret this as a proposal for a joint common culture, and not as an usurpation of culture, that belongs only to one side .
IT IS A HUGE CULTURE AND CAN COVER ALL OF US !
The effort of Turkey at this time to display the Ottoman spear like a hyphen one, because of the older coexistence of religious diversity, it is difficult today after religious purges that were done in the recent past, by the Orthodox Christians against Muslims, and retaliation by the Ottomans in Turkey against Christian.
In Turkey should be good to be found the spiritual and political forces, which will display and propose new standards instead of the Ottomans or Byzadines, to be proposed the Homer of Troy, the Democritus of Thrace and special the Father of science Thales of Miletus.
In this case we (the new Byzantins) should not be seen these as a usurpation of our culture, but as an extension of this great classical civilization that can hold and unite us all.
panos Paliokostas
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ekarevs.
