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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.