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Pages: 546
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From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities provides twenty-five articles addressing the concept of centres and peripheries in the late antique
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Pages: 666
Authors: Bettany Hughes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-19 - Publisher: Da Capo Press

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Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three n
Ghost Empire
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Richard Fidler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-05 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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"A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, and invasion that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvelous book." —Simon W
The Emperor and the Elephant
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John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories
Language: en
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Authors: Theofili Kampianaki
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The twelfth-century chronicle of John Zonaras, which begins with the biblical Creation and ends in 1118, is one of the longest historical accounts written in Gr