Istanbul : city of majesty at the crossroads of the world / Thomas F. Madden.
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 astoundin...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 381 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
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City of majesty at the crossroads of the world |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Byzantion (667 BC-AD 330). Across from the city of the blind ; Bread for Athens ; Romans bearing gifts ; Ruin and survival
- Byzantine Constantinople (330-1453). Founding a new Rome ; Baptized capital ; East of the fall of Rome ; City of Justinian ; Surviving the Middle Ages ; Byzantine plots ; Dining with barbarians ; Treasure and treachery ; Blind men ; Latin occupation ; Life among the ruins ; Empire's end
- Ottoman Constantinople (1453-1923). The spider's curtain ; City of Suleiman the Magnificent ; The sultanate of women ; Return of the West ; Sick man of Europe ; Empire's end, again
- Istanbul (1923-2016). Becoming modern.