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I mean i def have a habbit of going to cities like 'right, where the ancient stuff at' but Seville as a vibe is very infectious - its the sort of place you can just wander and soak it in without a particular end point in mind 😊

So in the 8th century the Islamic Conquest quite rapidly controlled the entire Iberian peninsula ...with the minor exception of a narrow strip of mountainous land on the northern coast in Asturias that maintained de-facto independence. And this small hold-out did sort of become the thin end of the wedge that allowed kingdoms in the North to gradually expand, Then - as mentioned Al Andalus fractured in the 11th century and the board flipped where by soon the Christian kingdoms controlled the upper half of Iberia & pushed south in a few bursts of conquest - so that by the 15th century, Islamic control was limited to just the Emirate of Granada in the south

Its a Banyan tree (i had to check) they're pretty incredible in scale!

thanku 😊

thks!

Yh a lot of people have pointed out that the T-shaped Taulas do have a gobekli-esq look to them, Went down that rabbit hole myself (in fact i was going to talk about it in the epsiode but ended up cutting it from the script) There's a few problems - the main one is an 8-9000 year time gap between the chronology of Gobekli and the Talaiotic cultures as far as keeping a tradition alive, that's ...just not happening, it leaves you with the laughable scenario that a team of pre-pottery neolithic builders constructed Gobekli Tepe (which, crucially was deliberately burried a few centuries later) then chose to build no similar structures for 8-9 millenia but somehow still kept the tradition alive ...until some isolated islanders at the opposite end of the mediteranean decided to revive the old ways again in the iron age. Plus the closer you look - the T shaped (or ...lets be honest closer to a capital-i-shaped) uprights of Gobekli Tepe are not that similar in outline to the Taulas, which are huge stones held aloft on another huge stone upright. The similiarity really comes down to 'a-standing-stone-with-another-stone-atop-it, beyond that... they're not especially similar in form or design. So yes - a valid observation, but on closer inspection, a link between the Gobekli Tepe culture & the Talaiotic culture is close enough to impossible to rule out

@@ForestArchaicCollective thanks for answer. Maybe they are some similar structures in somewhere that we have not yet discovered like intermediate species mentioned by Darwin and other scientist. Maybe we will never find or maybe they never existed. Big question marks but still Im so glad as a human being in 21st century, we will keep searcing about roots of humanity in many ways.

@@aykutusta3568 ​ @aykutusta3568 - yh, its always exciting to trace how different people across time marked signficant sites, the one thing i kept coming back to is how late the Talaiotic Cultures were compared to how ...neolithic their architecture looks! Its undoubtedly because a lot of the context of the original settlements is missing & sure - one large upright stone does look quite like another but considering a lot of the Taula monuments were put up ...ballpark 500 BC give or take a couple hundred years either side. They appear to resemble dolmens & Neolithic standing stones much more closely than the rest of the architecture in the Mediterranean at that time.

thks! my pb still stands at 20 espressos in one sitting on a very dull boxing day - but far from making me energetic it just made me queasy and very short tempered 😆 doubt i could manage that now tho, i was a younger man then

yh i've been keeping my eye on the crannog centre, hoping to get up there once they've got a build over the water again

i thought that was highly unlikely - but looking into it... yes! as it happens :) " According to local tradition, the name of the location refers back to 327 AD when Saint Helena, mother of Constantine I, stayed there in a tent (Greek: Tέντα). Helena supposedly pitched her tent after walking up the Vasilikos valley (Greek: Βασιλικός), vasilikos meaning "royal place or land".

thks! 😊

... 'he should not comment on what we had here' ...you're suggesting non-welsh people be forbidden from discussing welsh history everyone on earth, outside of its 3.1 million population must refrain from talking about the history of Wales 🤐🤐🤐 great plan, well thought through 👍not even faintly ridiculous

The lakes of Northern Italy are just a whole other planet as far as views go, just sitting on or by the water and gazing out to the mountains in the distance 🏞 perfection 👌

hey - glad you enjoyed it! & thks!

FIrst there were Illyrians (Delmati,Liburni), Greeks, Romans and than Croats but modern Dalmatia that today you can see is almost all bulit by Croats only Old parts of cities like Split and Zadar still have some Roman/Greek heritage but all rest is done by Croatians. Also this documentary talks about Dubrovnik which was almost exclusively bulit by Croats considering in Illyrian/Greek/Roman times Dubrovnik was basically nothing but port for ships and very small comune.

@@tomislavbatinic9605 thank you for this info,

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there were some, all incredibly docile, a combination of the heat & maybe a lack of stimulation means they are either asleep most of the time or moving around very slowly and non-committally yh - would be astonished if they gave you (or your dog) any trouble at all (but also yes, when i was there they seemed to be entirely outnumbered by cats & pigeons)

Well spotted 👏 yh Palermo is a particularly elite church crawling spot

you'd love it there, its packed full of history There's also this punic necropolis that i've tried to go to both times i've been & they seem to have just taken it off the map. Idk how you lose an archaeological site thats open to visitors like that but they seem to have just taken down the signage and thrown away the key :/

Perhaps this says more about me but I thought that the prohibition on "doing business" in church probably meant not having sex rather than arranging Mafiosi assassinations etc

@@Neilhuny 'Get down to business' would perhaps be the better translation there 😆

I mean the Isle of Man has a similar vibe - but thats just the three legs without the face in the middle much more palatable

it was a great time to get either a) a cheap holiday or b) no holiday - whichever came first

thats amazing! I'm really glad it made for a good audio guide & thankyou!

100% this - it was one of the main incentives for doing the Venetian series Other than these incredible locations we kept stumbling into - i was incredulous that every video, almost everything i would find on the Venetian Republic was 97% City of Venice ...couple of footnotes on the rest of the territories and while sure - if you've not travelled in the Balkans and beyond its a bit of a steep learning curve keeping track of all these places - its an incredible saga, played out over around 1000 years, just irresistable

definitely - we've done the Antalya region & a fair amount of the west coast - but we've not made it far into the interior or to the east, the to-do list is really mounting

I mean the boring answer is that the writers in antiquity were already compiling the list we now recognise ~ a few hundred years before the Nabataeans reached their peak (the 1st centuries BC & AD) but absolutely - almost any updated list i've seen includes Petra & yh - it is unmissable

yh - the eastern side of Kefalonia was the main gap in our itinerary, hoping to catch the Tholos there when I can

Yh - it comes very highly recommended - particularly as a more secluded island choice goodness knows when but wishing i could make it back & criss cross it properly this time

@@ForestArchaicCollective Seems like the East is where all the beauty spots and memorable beaches are.

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cool cool, have you ...been on youtube though? its people talking, thats what we do here have you seen your own channel? a room tour where you, wait for it... talk throughout - just with quite a lot of umm and dead air I mean your fishpond-based content is dialogue free but, well its not exactly compelling viewing is it?

I mean I wish I could say I was being terribly stoic, heroic & something else that has 'oic' on the end But truthfully, navigating a medical system in another country (that may have an alarmingly high invoice attached) was worrying enough to try & make me grit my teeth for the remaining 72 hours til touchdown in the UK

so glad you're here to demonstrate how no one online is touchy about the subject of the illyrians 😆

*especially in the fog! 😊😊😊