"EUROPEAN HISTORY STARTS FROM GREECE
Written by Konstantinos Konstantinidis Amfiktyon
The crisis of Europe appears in its history. It begins with the infamous Charlemagne I, a crowned ruler of the Franks from Aachen, Germany, who during medieval times converted his subjects to Christianity under penalty of death, mass slaughtered prisoners of war, and subjugated the feudal lords of Europe under his crown. The "spiritual" work of his time is related to the theocratic dogmatism and "chivalry" of medieval Europe. As it seems Europe has not yet been weaned from its racial origin, which goes back to primitive tribes and hordes of raiding peoples that started from Central Asia and through the Caucasus ended up in Eastern Europe, These Germanic races first became vassals and later opponents of the Roman Empire. Northern Europe forgot that these wild and primitive regions did not have and did not create a culture, on the contrary they crushed the cultural forces of the Roman Empire which was the bearer of the ancient and brilliant Greek Culture
Charlemagne is NOT father of Europe The northern Europeans were subjected to great infamy and ridicule by the arbitrary proclamation of him as the father of Europe. The ancestry of Europe and the culture it today possesses and boasts of is very deep. From the antediluvian era of the Aegean area. There is the cradle of the Aegean civilization before and after the cataclysmic geological disasters. They were written first in the Argonautic Campaign by Orpheus and then in the Trojan War by Homer.
But who were the Franks and what was Charlemagne's work? We will do a brief historical review of the Franks and the Merovingian dynasty from which Charlemagne succeeded
The nation of the Franks appears in the 4th century AD. They were primitive tribes that started from Central Asia and through the Caucasus reached the east of Europe. Being fierce warriors, they were pushed west and used by the Romans as defenders of the eastern border or fought bloody battles with the Roman legions. Finally they became Christian and prevailed in the area of Central Europe. They consisted of the Sicambrians together with other Germanic peoples as they were integrated into the so-called Salian Franks. From the Sicambrian-Salian Franks came the Frankish royal dynasty of the Merovingians, with Merovian as its progenitor. Francia was ruled by the Merovingians, the most powerful of the kingdoms that succeeded the Western Roman Empire. Their characteristic is that they did not claim their origin from a god and did not become an object of worship.
The royal dynasty of the Merovingians begins from the middle of the 5th century until 751. and has a curious origin. Fredegar's Frankish chronicle (3.9.) states that, while his mother was already pregnant, by the Frankish king Claudius, as she was one day swimming in the ocean, she was attacked and raped by an aquatic creature, described as "A monster of Neptune similar to Quinotauro (Quinotauro)'. This obviously hides some admixture with the Greek race from the time of Hercules or later. The Merovingian dynasty reigned over the Franks. Many aristocratic and royal houses are considered its descendants and for this reason it is of primary importance in the theory of the Da Vinci Code (Abbey of Sion , holy blood and Grail, Mary Magdalene, etc.). Mary Magdalene—a woman of dubious morals who became one of Christ's most devoted disciples—had a child. And the child's descendants became the dynasty of Merovingian Frankish kings, who ruled present-day France between the 5th and 8th centuries AD. This is apparently its connection with pre-Christianity
Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pippin Bracheos and Bertrand of Laon and became king from 768 to 748. also known as Charles the Great (Carolus or Karolus Magnus) numbered as Charles I Became king of Italy from 774 and from 800 he was anointed as the first emperor in Western Europe. The Western Roman Empire had collapsed three centuries before
The Carolingian Empire The extensive Frankish state he founded is called the Carolingian Empire (or Carolingian Empire). Initially he co-reigned with his brother Carloman I. He died suddenly in 771, apparently consumed by darkness under unexplained circumstances, leaving Charlemagne as the undisputed ruler of the Frankish Kingdom. His first task was to obliterate the remnants of the former Roman Empire in the North. Italy and Spain, something that his successors in Brussels and Bonn do not fail to this day with their attitude to the detriment of the south
He Christianized many peoples in the east and beyond under penalty of death. At Verdun in Lower Saxony he carried out the infamous massacre of 4,500 prisoners. The project was faithfully followed by the Third Reich in the BPP and recently by the German-blooded EU at the expense of Greece with the imposition of the horrible Memoranda. Alexander never massacred women and children. In 800 he was crowned ΄΄emperor΄΄ by Pope Leo III. He was called the "Father of Europe" (pater Europae) because he united most of Western Europe for the first time after the breakup of the Roman Empire. The work of unifying Europe continues the Reich which claims the hegemony of the other peoples of Europe (Kaiser, Hitler, E.E) It is considered that it gave impetus to the Carolingian cultural and spiritual Renaissance within the Catholic Church. As far as is known, Europe made no cultural progress in the Middle Ages. The European Renaissance began with the infusion of the Greek Spirit after the Fall of Constantinople and the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Charlemagne died in 814 after 13 years as emperor. He was buried in his imperial capital Aachen in Germany. Since the 6th century the Franks of western Germany had been Christianized. Because the kings remained idle and the courtiers and councilors managed the kingdoms, in 687 Pippin of Herstal, courtier of the palace of Austrasia (region of the Rhine), put an end to the conflict between various kings and their courtiers with his victory at Tertry and became the sole ruler of the entire Frankish kingdom. . Herstal's Pepino was finally succeeded by his illegitimate son Charles, later known as Charles Marthelos. His father Pippin usurped the Merovingian Monarchy. To contain separatist tendencies in the periphery of the kingdom, in 743 the brothers placed on the throne Hilderich III, who was to be the last Merovingian king. In 750 Pepin was elected by an assembly of the Franks, consecrated by the archbishop and promoted to the office of king. Characterizing Hilderich III as a "false king" and with the cooperation of Pope Zacharias, he usurped the throne. Thus the Merovingian dynasty was replaced by the Carolingian dynasty, named after Pepin's father, Charles Martel. Pepin with the popes (with Pope Zacharias and then with Stephen II) made various machinations serving the expansion of his monarchy, while the Pope served the interests of his throne. This is why the EU does not find its identity Under the Carolingians, the Frankish kingdom spread over most of Western Europe, and its division formed the basis of today's France and Germany. The religious, political and artistic developments of France left a decisive imprint on the whole of Europe. Two different worlds were formed in Europe. The one of Francia and the other Greco-Roman (north-south)
The arbitrary coronation of Charlemagne as emperor This rekindled the opposition of the two Empires and Churches (eastern and western). Charlemagne considered himself a renovator of the Roman Empire which had clearly fallen into degradation under the Byzantines. He preferred the title Karolus serenissimus Augustus a Deo coronatus magnus pacificus imperator Romanum gubernans imperium ("Charles, most serene Augustus, crowned by God, the great, peaceful emperor ruling the Roman empire") rather than ("Emperor of the Romans" since the empire it was now French).
In 813 Charlemagne crowned his son Louis emperor. He called Louis the Pious, King of Aquitaine (modern day France), his only surviving legitimate son and crowned him emperor shortly before he died the following year on 1/21/814. His empire was preserved in its entirety for only one more generation. Its division, according to custom, among the sons of Louis, after the death of their father, laid the foundations of the newer states, France and Germany, and of their enmity.
Charlemagne was the model of the knight. He was considered one of nine mythical figures who represented the ideals of chivalry as established in the Middle Ages and included three pagans (Hector, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar), three Jews (Jesus of Nazareth, David and Judas Maccabeus) and three Christians ( King Arthur, Charlemagne and Godfrey of Bouillon), but he did not behave chivalrously towards the individual kings and feudal lords whom he subjected to his throne
Insignificant cultural work of his time This is summed up in the works of the flowing-bearded emperor of Roland's fame and the historical commander of the border with Brittany Roland and the knights analogous to the knights of the Round Table of King Arthur's court.
He had been recognized as a saint but disputed But his canonization was not recognized by the Lateran Holy See in 1165. In the Divine Comedy Charlemagne's spirit appears to Dante in the Uranus of Mars, among other "combatants of the faith".
Finally he yielded to the Pope. Initially, Charlemagne showed his opposition to the "Filioque (and from the Son)" doctrine and had the original text engraved in Greek and Latin on two heavy shields, which were placed in St. Peter's Basilica. In 809-810 Charlemagne convened an ecclesiastical council at Aachen, which confirmed the "Filioque" in the Creed,
The International Charlemagne Prize The city of Aachen has established since 1949 an international prize (called the Karlspreis der Stadt Aachen) in honor of Charlemagne. It is awarded every year to "personages who have promoted the idea of Western Europe. Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the Pan-European Council, Alcide de Gasperi, Winston Churchill and Constantinos Karamanlis have received the award. (the work of Kalergis is controversial and comprehensive. As far as the contribution of K. Karamanlis to Europe is concerned, it is considered positive with the inclusion of Greece within it, but negative for the Greeks due to the difficult admission conditions)
Summarizing the love of Charlemagne we find that:
a/ The unification of the scattered German states of the time was not based on principles that guaranteed continuity and prosperity. And proof of this that it was broken up by his grandsons.
Chivalry in Europe is characterized by the combination of the two elements, feudalism and service as a mounted mercenary warrior. A knight is a person who has been awarded the honorary title of knighthood by a monarch or other leader for service to the country, as a soldier. The word first appears in Homer's Iliad as an epithet of Nestor, "knight Nestor". Therefore Charlemagne did not introduce renewal ideas into his empire but anachronistic ones
The promotion of Charlemagne as the father of the EU is not justified. They forgot the ancient and glorious history that humanized them in favor of an excellent knight-monarch. Even the unification of Europe was temporary during the tenure of two emperors. On the contrary, the ideals of democracy, the Olympic games and Greek values unite all peoples, regardless of color, gender, religious beliefs, philosophical opinions. The cultural and spiritual work of Charlemagne's era does not appear because it simply does not exist and what appears is pure medieval and theocratic darkness.
The brains of the Northern Europeans are twisted so that they do not realize that the democratic and cultural background of Europe is Ancient Greece, the Greek Spirit and in general the Greco-Roman Civilization. Today's "European History" is a travesty worthy of primitive, uncouth and barbaric peoples such as the Frankish races who came from Central Asia to Europe. The European Union needs to build a Museum. But that should start from Greece, the matrix of seven (7) Civilizations (Antediluvian, Minoan, Mycenaean, Classical, Alexandrian, Byzantine and European Renaissance) To include the Greco-Roman era and the Greco-Christian Civilization. Without these foundations, the European edifice is fragile and will fall to the ground.
World history begins in Greece. This is evidenced by the following statements of the leading spiritual leaders of Europe, who declared:
Goethe: "Greece is to humanity what the mind and heart are to man"
Schneider: "...what the twentieth century has acquired it owes to Greece
Angel: "..nature and spirit can only be understood through the teachings of Plato"
Seli: "We are all Greeks"
Schiller: "..that even if nothing else existed from Greece, the Parthenon is sufficient in the most reasonable way to convince us that this country was inhabited by a great people"
Vilamovic: "The Greeks have never been conquered but have always been reformed and liberated"
Tolstoy: "...that the true and infinitely beautiful has been born is Greek" and also "without knowledge of Greek there is no education"
Paul Elyar: "... there are the Greeks and we all the others"
Octavios Paz: "..without the heritage of classical Greece we would not exist. And by that I mean that for me the heritage of Greece is alive"
Angel: "..neither has a similar mind like Aristotle been born since then, nor will there be, but neither does it need to be born"
Marx: "Aristotle is the giant mind"
Nietzsche: "..the Greeks are the ones who have brought man further" "The Greeks shine with a glow stronger than ever" "the younger generations have offered nothing of substance"
Shelley: "..we are all Greeks, our laws, our philology, our religion, our arts. All have their roots in Greece. The form and Spirit of man reached perfection in Greece, etc."
I think that the answer of the wise men of Europe will prevent other monstrosities like the "History of Europe". Europe must find the roots of the Greek-Roman Spirit in order to get out of the current division, spiritual fog and ideological gloom to the real civilization in Xasteria (18/4/24)
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