Yoros Salam

At the sunrise side of the Bosporus, near the exit to the Black Sea, we find the abandoned castle of Yoros: A strategic location to control maritime traffic with the White Sea. A temple for Zeus preceded the castle, making it clear why "Ιερου" became "Yoros", refering to a sanctuary, as does Jerusalem ...

Salem refers to dusk, so rather the sunset side of the mentioned strait, where we find big sanctuaries close to Seraglio Point: "Ιερουσαλήμ" would be an appropriate toponym for the spot. The city of king Melchizedek, priest of Elyon, bears the toponym too; Troy was also known as Ilion. A comparison with the Temple Mount goes like this:

• The wise king Solomon brought prosperity & the construction of Solomon's Temple, although archeological evidence seems to be negotiable. After destruction a second one was built, whereof the Wailing Wall is supposed to be a remnant: Only the Al-Aqsa Mosque is a complete still standing sanctuary overthere ...
• On the First Hill, the still standing Church of the Holy Wisdom was yet the third one, the former two being destroyed by uprisings. On the Third Hill, the Süleymaniye Mosque was built under leadership of the magnificent sultan Süleyman ...

Crusaders conquered those sanctuaries, followed by a temporary reign with a foreign ruler called Baldwin. Nearby territories were also occupied: Outremer on one hand, Frankokratia on the other, so Paris abducted Hellas?

Nevertheless, the toponym applies to more locations, Moscow's Kremlin might be one: Inhabitants of its adjacent "Chinese City" see it as a sanctuary with the sunset in the background. After Scaliger had compiled the medieval & ancient history we're taught today, Jerusalem was reserved as the only primary toponym for the town around the Al-Aqsa Mosque ...

Near Scythia, the vowels 'd & n' are usually found in the name of a river: Could "Yor-dan" be another name for the river-resembling strait, passing by the earlier mentioned castle? Close to that castle we find Joshua's Hill, with the Giant's Grave: Which saviour is buried here?

Great Wall

As protection against raging nomads from the Eurasian Steppes, Chinese Emperors deployed labour forces to build qualitative fortifications. Alas, it didn't stop some invading hordes conquering the country: Qin, the first dynasty of the united empire, initiated the project, while Qing, the last dynasty in that empire, crossed it to take power overthere. Manchuria is a region in Chinese Tartary, whereof cartographer John Cary drew the borders:

• The border with China follows the path of the Ming Wall
• The border with Russia is according the Treaty of Nerchinsk

Before Pugachev's Rebellion it seemed to belong to Great Tartary, together with Siberia & Turkestan, but Crimea was known as the distinguished Little Tartary: Were they even earlier united as one Tartary? On its borders with Persia, near the Caspian Sea, we also find walls:

• Near Gorgan on its eastern shore
• Near Derbent on its western shore

Dhu Al-Qarnayn or Alexander the Great might have built them to isolate Gog of Magog: In the Tartarus, where Giants are buried? In England, Gogmagog was killed by a companion of Brutus of Troy, as Goliath fell ...

Throughout Europe, the supposed descendants of Aeneas of Troy constructed the Roman Limes to keep nomadic tribes outside the empire, ranging from the Black Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, with the following extremities:

• Trajan's Wall to keep the Scythians out
• Hadrian's Wall to keep the Scots out

Did all those fortifications act as fences between a Heartland of a world-empire & the first parts of a separating Rimland?

Trojan Horse

When Paris abducted Helen, it started the Trojan War, which ended by the trick with the Trojan Horse, whereafter Aeneas managed to escape the burning city. The trick with the hollow horse is a bit odd; the following questions pop up in my mind:

• Nobody noticed a possible entrance to the belly of the horse?
• None of the hidden soldiers sneezed or coughed the whole time?
• They could remain noiseless when the horse suddenly started to move?
• ...

The Aeneid covers the story of the hollow horse: In Latin, 'horse' translates as 'equus', while 'water' translates as 'aqua'. Before the invention of printing press, a mistake in copying happened easily: Could 'equus' have replaced 'aqua', in connection with the verb 'ducere', which translates as 'to lead'?

This question is brought forward by the New Chronology: Did the seizure of Troy happen as in early medieval Naples?

According to them, the ruïns of Hisarlik are too small for being the remnants of that once so mighty city. They suggest it should be Tsargrad & they could be right: When the Greeks recaptured late medieval Constantinople, being lost to the Latins since the Fourth Crusade, they used a secret passage near the Gate of the Spring ...

"Νεά Πολις" & "Nova Roma" nearly mean the same, as does "𐤒𐤓𐤕 𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕". The Aeneid covers the love story of Dido & Aeneas too: Though they've been born centuries apart, in the story they met, proving ancient Virgil indeed wrote propaganda. How about late medieval Virgil?

I mentioned the importance of national propaganda already in a former post: Authors Robert Grishin & Vladimir Melamed suggest in chapter fourteen of their book the mentioned namesakes are doubles. That's right, even Shakespeare might not have been who we think he was, also according to Petter Amundsen ...

Mongol Empire

In my former post, I mentioned the existence of a world-empire before it collapsed into the world-economy we know today. Our mainstream history teaches us the existence of such an empire near the end of the Middle Ages, the greatest one ever existing, the Mongol Empire.

Mainstream history describes the Mongols as being a bunch of nomadic tribes roaming around Tartary, using bow & arrow in conflict while riding horses. Once united under Temujin, in about 20 years they managed to conquer a territory ranging over the Eurasian Steppes between the Caspian & Japanese Sea. The following 50 years, their offspring added more parts of Russia, Persia & China to the realm, resulting in the greatest world-empire ever conquered on landmasses. Horses might allow a quick conquest, but how did nomads adapt so quickly to change their lifestyle from cattle-breeders to empire-managers?

Initially they lacked a real capital, but later Ögedei upgraded Karakorum. Today we find Erdene Zuu Khiid on the spot, but remnants of the former city are almost absent: Where are the foundations of the Silver Tree & Great Palace on the meadow?

For example, in Rome, another capital of a former world-empire, we find much more remnants, supposed to be much older. I would rather expect the opposite, so is that remote spot in Mongolia the real location of their former capital?

The conquest went smooth until the battle of Ain Jalut: The smaller Mamluk Sultanate pushed the greater Mongol Empire back. According to mainstream history this was a turning point in the conquest & must have felt as king David defeated giant Goliath again, or was that story just a tale?

The reason for the pushback was the war about the succession of Möngke, resulting in the partitioning of the world-empire. Although Kublai was successful in claiming the throne, the central authority over the different parts was waning, especially in the most remote region of the Golden Horde. The transfer of the capital to Khanbaliq only contributed to the defragmentation of the greatest world-empire ...