Title:
Istanbul : city of majesty at the crossroads of the world
Author:
Madden, Thomas F., author.
ISBN:
9780670016600
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Publication Information:
New York :
Viking,
2016.
Physical Description:
pages cm.
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 trickery ; 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.
Abstract:
A biography of the two thousand-year-old city founded by Greeks and eventually ruled by the Macedonians, the Romans, and the Ottomans details the rich history, traditions, and changing populace of a city that is a key to understanding modern civilization.
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