With its strategic location on the Bosphorus peninsula between the Balkans and Bosphorus and the Mediterranean, Istanbul has been associated with major political, religious and artistic events for ...
The sudden upsurge of Turkish nationalist feeling was reflected in the publication of scores of pamphlets, books ... European capital until the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and contains ...
John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...
In addition to the Plague of Justinian from 541-549 CE which killed 20%-40% of Constantinople’s population ... that made reading more accessible and books cheaper. Most of the scholars of ...
To study classics is to enter into a world that stretches from Europe to Western Asia and North Africa, and in time from the Stone Age to the fall of Constantinople and beyond ... author of the Harry ...