4 Byzance et les Grecs dans le récit de voyage de Paul d’ Alep
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Greek was essential for the representatives of the Church of Antioch during their journey, especially in Constantinople and in the Romanian Principalities. Patriarch Makarios III and his son, the Archdeacon Paul, used Greek both in Church services and in their daily interactions with Greeks and Romanians. During his sojourn of almost two months in Constantinople, Paul of Aleppo was also interested in seeing and identifying the traces of Byzantine Empire that he was familiar with from his readings. He looked for the past glory of Byzantium even in the Romanian Principalities and in Russia. Knowledgeable in Byzantine history, Paul of Aleppo compares the information obtained from books with the realities on the ground. The result is an account that often surpasses those of the Western travelers in the East. The aim of the present paper is to trace the information about Byzantium and the Greeks in Paul of Aleppo’s travel account and to propose a new approach of this data for historians of the Byzantine heritage.