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Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium, episode 317, The Byzantine Legacy, with David Hendrix.

I first visited Istanbul in 2018. I was sent there by you, the kind listeners who supported my Kickstarter. I went to see the sites for myself, to make films about them, and to meet potential

tour guides.

And it was all very daunting.

Fortunately for me, a well-informed listener recommended I contact David Hendricks, the man behind the

Byzantine legacy website. David is an American who settled in Istanbul and was inspired by the

story of the Byzantines, as so many of us have been. The Byzantinelegacy.com is an amazing website.

On its pages, David has maps showing you where all the remaining Byzantine sites in Istanbul are,

along with pages dedicated to each site, chronicling what has survived and giving a brief history.

The site goes on to tackle Byzantine sites elsewhere in Turkey as well as Greece, Italy and beyond.

Even for those of you with a mere passing interest in Roman sites, you will enjoy David's photography, which captures the amazing ruins which survive.

David and his work were invaluable to me. It was a great geeky thrill to agree to meet in the

hippodrome on my first day in the city, and David then accompanied me and my wife around the city

on several days of our trip. He also introduced me to Sheriff Yenin, the tour guide who now

organizes the podcast trips around Turkey.

So I owe David a lot and at the end of all my YouTube videos I direct those watching to check out the Byzantine legacy.

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