🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 27 The city was put here on purpose. The lagoon did not want it. The Venetians, for eleven hundred years, did not care. Republic of Venice — La Serenissima Sometime in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, while the western Roman Empire was collapsing […]
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 26 In the year Brunelleschi finished his dome, the entire population of Florence was about forty thousand. That is fewer people than will read this article in its first week. Florence Produced the Renaissance In the early fifteenth century, the small Tuscan city of
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 25 People in Sardinia live longer than almost anywhere on Earth Sardinia — Island That Declined to Participate For roughly seven centuries, between 238 BC and the collapse of the Western Empire in the fifth century AD, Sardinia was a Roman province. The Romans
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Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 8 Sicily. Sardinia. The Amalfi Coast. Three pieces of Italy that have almost nothing in common except the passport. Sicily — Italy Part 1 Sicily is not Italy. That’s the first thing every Sicilian will tell you and the second thing you’ll figure out yourself.
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 24 The city that built the world we still live in. Walk through it once and you understand — Rome didn’t fall. Rome simply spread out. Rome has been continuously a major city In the centre of Rome, scattered across nearly every neighbourhood of
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 23 What you see at Amalfi is the half of a medieval republic the wave did not take Amalfi was a country Before it was a postcard, Amalfi was a country. The Republic of Amalfi was founded around the year 839 AD on the
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 22 Sicily has been Italian for 164 years. Sicily has been Sicilian for almost three thousand Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean In 734 BC, Greek settlers from Corinth landed on the eastern coast of a large triangular island in the central
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Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 7 Cairo. Tunisia. Valletta. A megacity that never sleeps, a country the world walks past, and a fortress the size of a neighbourhood that ran an empire. Cairo Cairo didn’t greet me. It grabbed me by the collar. Twenty-two million people in a metropolitan area
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 21 Valletta was designed entirely on paper before anyone laid a stone. The drawing is what the city actually became Valletta — Named after Jean Parisot de Valette In September 1565, on a small island in the central Mediterranean, an army of religious knights
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 20 Rome destroyed Carthage twenty-two centuries ago. The land Carthage stood on is still here. Rome is not. Carthage, Tunisia In the year 146 BC, on the north coast of what is now Tunisia, a Roman army under the consul Scipio Aemilianus completed the
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