r/EasternCatholic 12d ago

General Eastern Catholicism Question Anyone know anything about this byzantine flag?

Hey can anyone tell me anything about this flag specifically?

https://ebay.us/m/1nI3J4

Thanks in advance

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u/deeblad 12d ago edited 11d ago

The first appearance of the flag was probably in the 14th or 15th century after Russia moved their capital from Kiev to Moscow in order to pay financial tribute to the Buddhist mongols who conquered Russia in the 13th century.

Lithuania and Poland expelled the mongols from Kievian Russia in the 13th and 14th centuries. Then Kievian Russia became the Ukraine.

After after the 13th and 14th centuries the mongols converted to islam....The Russians used the flag in military battles against the mongols Tartars and probably later Poland and the Dutch mercenaries known as the Teutonic knights..

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u/el_peregrino_mundial Byzantine 12d ago

*"Ukraine", not "the Ukraine"

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/el_peregrino_mundial Byzantine 12d ago

*you're *too

*Pronounced "Oo-kra-yee-na" in Ukrainian.

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u/deeblad 12d ago

Intellect and knowledge of historical facts is lacking on this site..

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u/deeblad 12d ago

So...what

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u/agon_ee16 Byzantine 12d ago

You're directly parroting Muscovite propaganda.

Oh wait you're a Kyrillite?

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u/[deleted] 12d ago edited 12d ago

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u/agon_ee16 Byzantine 12d ago

How about learning to read and write properly before talking about "intellectual facts".

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u/deeblad 12d ago

Maybe you should stop trolling.....

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u/deeblad 12d ago edited 12d ago

Ok you ROCOR trouble maker.. 😂😆

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u/agon_ee16 Byzantine 12d ago

What are you even saying?

Also, it's UKRAINE not "the Ukraine", that name is muscovite propaganda.

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u/just-a-wavy-dude Eastern Orthodox 11d ago

To be fair people referring to the country as simply Ukraine and not the Ukraine didn’t get popular in America until the invasion. Same with spelling and pronouncing the capital differently. I don’t think everyone who uses pre-invasion terms is necessarily parroting Moscow propaganda

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u/deeblad 12d ago

Stop trolling ....and obtain intellectual facts

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u/agon_ee16 Byzantine 12d ago

"Obtain intellectual facts" is an incoherent phrase.

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u/deeblad 12d ago

No...it's a run on sentence....

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u/deeblad 12d ago edited 11d ago

No I'm not.... actually it's anti Russian....because Russians deny the Ukraine was ruled by Polish Lithuanians and austro Hungary for 600 years while the Russians only had it off and on for only 400 years...

And its anti Russian because russians and many eastern Catholics on this site deny the fact Russians are mongols and not Slavic.