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Centers of civilization volume 9
Physical Desc
xiii, 189 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Administration, society and intellectual life of the Turkish Empire during the two centuries that followed the capture of Constantinople in 1453.
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xxix, 800 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul-- one city, where stories and histories collide. The gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. Hughes takes us on an historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, exploring the ways that Istanbul's influence has spun out to shape the wider world. This is the story not just of emperors, viziers, caliphs, and sultans, but of the...
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xviii, 381 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Perched at the tip of Europe, gazing across to the shores of Asia, Istanbul remains as much a city of crossroads as it has been for the past two millennia. The history of this fabled metropolis--known at first as Byzantion, then Constantinople, and now Istanbul--is glorious, grandiose, and astounding. No other city has stood at the center of world events for so long, a home to great empires and diverse cultures from the Greeks to the Romans, the Italians...
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