WH Allen Istanbul: A Tale Of Three Cities

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The sunday times bestseller 'a life-filled and life-affirming history, steeped in romance and written with verve' guardian 'richly entertaining and impeccably researched' peter frankopan istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the quran to shakespeare, this city with three names - byzantium, constantinople, istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and spills over its boundaries - real and imagined. Doğu ve batı arasında bir geçit olarak duran bu şehir, roma, bizans, latin ve osmanlı i̇mparatorluklarının başkenti olmuştur.

for much of its history it was known simply as the city, but, as bettany hughes reveals, istanbul is not just a city, but a story. In this epic new biography, hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities.

as the longest-lived political entity in europe, over the last 6,000 years istanbul has absorbed a mosaic of micro-cities and cultures all gathering around the core. According to the latest count, archaeologists have identified forty-two layers of human habitation. Phoenicians, genoese, venetians, jews, vikings, azeris all called a patch of this earth their home.

based on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this captivating portrait of the momentous life of istanbul is visceral, immediate and scholarly narrative history at its finest.

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• Barcode No: 9781780224732
• Origin: GB