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Perched at the tip of Europe, gazing across to the shores of Asia, Istanbul remains as much a city of crossroads as it has been for the past two millennia. The history of this fabled metropolis--known at first as Byzantion, then Constantinople, and now Istanbul--is glorious, grandiose, and astoundin... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Part I.
- Byzantion (667 BC-AD 330).
- Across from the city of the blind
- Bread for Athens
- Romans bearing gifts
- Ruin and survival
- Part II.
- Byzantine Constantinople (330-1453).
- Founding a new Rome
- Baptized capital
- East of the fall of Rome
- City of Justinian
- Surviving the Middle Ages
- Byzantine plots
- Dining with barbarians
- Treasure and treachery
- Blind men
- Latin occupation
- Life among the ruins
- Empire's end
- Part III.
- Ottoman Constantinople (1453-1923).
- The spider's curtain
- City of Suleiman the Magnificent
- The sultanate of women
- Return of the West
- Sick man of Europe
- Empire's end, again
- Part IV.
- Istanbul (1923-2016).
- Becoming modern.