The Terror of Constantinople

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Reducere. DescriptionExplore a major turning point in the history of Europe and the Middle East The fall of Constantinople was an event which had great reper...

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The Byzantine empire's bronze horseman towered over Constantinople, assumed new identities, spawned conflicting narratives, and acquired internatio...

DescriptionThe siege of Constantinople in AD 717--18 was a key clash between the expanding Umayyad Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire, and one whic...

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Reducere. This edition covers the history of the Eastern Roman Empire from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. The author gives the c...

Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end at the walls of Constantinople. Aristotelian logic and G...

*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "So the church has been made a spec...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Roger CrowleyA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today. The fal...

Publisher: PropolisAuthor(s): Jonathan Gathorne-HardyPublication date: 2017Dimensions: 138 x 191 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera fa...

The great travel classic, first published in 1977 and recounting an epic journey of nearly 50 years before.

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Identifies and narrates 40 sieges of the city that was Byzantion, then Constantinople and now Istanbul.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): J...

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Sheds new light on the relationship between the emperor and his senators in the later Roman Empire, focusing on Constantius II, son of Constantine ...

In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital...

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Reducere. For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the imagination of the West. The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous liberation into an o...

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