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These are my newest cities, a simple cross between Mediterrenean and Mid East city graphics. I'd say they look like Byzantine or Phoenician cities.
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City Graphics: Byzantine / Phoenician
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Mr. Hyperbole
understated cynic
These are excellent! They add so much more flavor than the originals!
Byzantine architecture is romanesque; it dosent have any middle eastern features; all of that is a result of the ottoman conquest.
the classic exampel for instance, of Byzantien architecture, the Hagia Sophia, had no minertes when it was first built, and was significantlly slimmer, as it was later re-inforced to prevent collapse, but the re-inforcemnt, obviouslyl enough, was done under turkish asthetics....
the classic exampel for instance, of Byzantien architecture, the Hagia Sophia, had no minertes when it was first built, and was significantlly slimmer, as it was later re-inforced to prevent collapse, but the re-inforcemnt, obviouslyl enough, was done under turkish asthetics....
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Well, I know they're not completely accurate (it wasn't really my intention anyway, I just decided to combine Mediterrenean and Mid East cities) I just thought they looked Byzantine-like, minarets or no minarets.
And if not for Byzantine, you could still use them as Phoenician cities
And if not for Byzantine, you could still use them as Phoenician cities
skam0073
Warlord
They look very nice!!Nice combination and color fitting.It's great to have a lot of cities to choose for scenarios.Thank you RedAlert
Sword_Of_Geddon
Arbiter of the Sword
Byzantine ala Firaxis' meditarian?
MaisseArsouye
gentil petit nuton
This looks awesome ! Your skill to match the Firaxis style is astounding 
But I have a question. Why is there a mosque in ancient era ? Islam only appeared in the middle age.
But I have a question. Why is there a mosque in ancient era ? Islam only appeared in the middle age.
Sword_Of_Geddon said:
Romaneseque architecture as a distinctive style anf lavor found to it, and can generally be descirebed as... "more warm" thne the Imperial style architecture, mainlly because Romanesque was built with more of an eye for art, then an eye to convince anyone passin gof the inherent migh tand everlasting supremacy fo the Roman empire
with that in mind, Firax's art isnt Romanesque... its just Roman 
though thier are some nice compnent slying here and there in the med sea graphpics for the middle ages and what not.
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@ Maisse Arsouye: To answer your question the 'mosque' in the ancient era isn't really a 'mosque' (or at least it's not supposed to be) 
It was in the mid east cities in the ancient era and I just transferred it over to my ancient era.
@ Xen: I'm sure with your vast knowledge of romanesque architecture, you yourself could make some pretty great (and accurate) cities.
It was in the mid east cities in the ancient era and I just transferred it over to my ancient era.@ Xen: I'm sure with your vast knowledge of romanesque architecture, you yourself could make some pretty great (and accurate) cities.
Yaype
Me
Great work! It is hard with all these new city graphics to keep any of the old ones, even where the whole cultural/historical thing merits doing so.
