Istanbul : a tale of three cities / Bettany Hughes.
Hughes, Bettany, author.
2017
DR728 .H85 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Istanbul : a tale of three cities / Bettany Hughes.
Author Hughes, Bettany, author.
Edition First Da Capo Press edition.
ISBN 9780306825842 (hardcover)
0306825848 (hardcover)
Published [Boston, MA] : Da Capo Press, [2017]
Language English
Description xxix, 800 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Call Number DR728 .H85 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 949.618
Summary Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul-- one city, where stories and histories collide. The gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. Hughes takes us on an historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, exploring the ways that Istanbul's influence has spun out to shape the wider world. This is the story not just of emperors, viziers, caliphs, and sultans, but of the poor and the voiceless, of the women and men whose aspirations and dreams have continuously reinvented Istanbul.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 638-762) and index.
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Introduction
Byzantion, Byzas' City, 800,000 BC - AD 311
Constantinople, City of God, AD 311-475
The new Rome, AD 476-565
The world's desire, AD 565-1050
City of war, AD 1050-1320
Allah's city, AD 1320-AD 1575 (Islamic calendar 720-983)
Imperial city, AD 1550-1800 (Islamic calendar 957-1215)
City of revolt and opportunity, AD 1800 (Islamic calendar 1215) onwards
Coda.

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