Istanbul city of majesty at the crossroads of the world
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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New York, New York :
Viking,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Byzantion (667 BC-AD 330). Across from the city of the blind
- Bread for Athens
- Romans bearing gifts
- Ruin and survival
- Part II. 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
- Part III. 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
- Part IV. Istanbul (1923-2016). Becoming modern.
