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Many causes have been proposed for the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. Secular historians have naturally looked for material causes: the loss of Anatolia to the Ottoman Turks, with the consequent loss of manpower and economic resources; the handover of ...
J. M. Neale
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Journal of Web Librarianship, 2010
Turkey is one of the ancient areas of the Western world. Bridging Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, Turkey borders Greece, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria and is surr...
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Turkey is one of the ancient areas of the Western world. Bridging Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, Turkey borders Greece, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria and is surr...
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PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1956
“Essays on the Court Wits as individuals, however well done,” John Harold Wilson observed a few years ago, “have always been somewhat unsatisfactory because of a natural tendency to treat the subject of the essay as a phenomenon taken bodily from his cultural environment.” Sir George Etherege has suffered as much as any other important Restoration ...
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“Essays on the Court Wits as individuals, however well done,” John Harold Wilson observed a few years ago, “have always been somewhat unsatisfactory because of a natural tendency to treat the subject of the essay as a phenomenon taken bodily from his cultural environment.” Sir George Etherege has suffered as much as any other important Restoration ...
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Constantinople: Building and Maintenance
2022It is possible to see the story of Constantinopolitan construction in the city’s first 200 years as a single undertaking. The concentration of political will, economic capacity, and logistic conditions combined to facilitate the influx of the necessary building materials, specialized knowledge, and technological skills from a pan-Mediterranean ...
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2019
This chapter deals with the defence of Constantinople during the Avar attack. The author offers a critical re-examination of the often-discussed condition of the fortification of the Byzantine capital prior to the Avar siege. There is a primary focus on key areas of the Blachernai quarter and the Golden Horn.
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This chapter deals with the defence of Constantinople during the Avar attack. The author offers a critical re-examination of the often-discussed condition of the fortification of the Byzantine capital prior to the Avar siege. There is a primary focus on key areas of the Blachernai quarter and the Golden Horn.
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Viewing the Unknown in Eighth-Century Constantinople
Gesta, 2017Paroma Chatterjee
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2020
With reference to a range of recent scholarship, an outline is given of the political and mercantile relationships between West and East, particularly Venice and the Ottoman empire, which allowed freedom of movement between the societies.Lack of detailed records on Strachan’s movements between Paris and Constantinople via Sancta Terra (The Holy Land ...
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With reference to a range of recent scholarship, an outline is given of the political and mercantile relationships between West and East, particularly Venice and the Ottoman empire, which allowed freedom of movement between the societies.Lack of detailed records on Strachan’s movements between Paris and Constantinople via Sancta Terra (The Holy Land ...
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Constantinople, Persia and the Arabs
1991The violent swings of fortune, from the Roman point of view, on their eastern frontiers in the late third and fourth centuries gave way to a period of greater stability in the fifth. After Julian’s disastrous invasion of Persia and Jovian’s ignominious retreat and treaty, periods of conflict between the two empires became less frequent and the scale of
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