Название: The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World)
Автор: Sarah Bassett
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110870557X
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 434
Размер: 13,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

From its foundation in the fourth century, to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, 'Constantinople' not only identified a geographical location, but also summoned an idea. On the one hand, there was the fact of Constantinople, the city of brick and mortar that rose to preeminence as the capital of the Roman Empire on a hilly peninsula jutting into the waters at the confluence of the Sea of Marmora, the Golden Horn, and the Bosporos.