ISTANBUL by Freely, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

List of Colour Plates and Picture Acknowledgements Maps Preface Turkish Spelling and Pronunciation PART I – BYZANTIUM

1 The Strait and the City, up to c. 658 BC 2 The Greek City-State of Byzantium, c. 658 BC–AD 196 3 Roman Byzantium, 196–330

PART II – CONSTANTINOPLE

4 The City of Constantine, 330–337 5 The Imperial Capital, 337–395 6 The Theodosian Walls, 395–450 7 The Late Roman City, 450–527 8 The Age of Justinian, 527–565 9 The Struggle for Survival, 565–717 10 The Iconoclastic Crisis, 717–845 11 Born in the Purple, 845–1056 12 The Dynasty of the Comneni, 1056–1185 13 The Latin Conquest, 1185–1261 14 Renaissance and Civil War, 1261–1354 15 The Fall of Byzantium, 1354–1453

PART III – ISTANBUL

16 Istanbul, Capital of the Ottoman Empire, 1453–1520 17 The Age of Süleyman the Magnificent, 1520–1566 18 The House of Felicity, 1566–1623 19 The Procession of the Guilds, 1623–1638 20 Decline and Gilded Decadence, 1638–1730 21 In the Days of the Janissaries, 1730–1826 22 The Age of Reform, 1826–1876 268 23 The Fall of the Ottoman Empire, 1876–1923 24 Istanbul under the Turkish Republic, 1923–1995

PART IV – NOTES ON MONUMENTS AND MUSEUMS APPENDICES

Glossary List of Emperors and Sultans Bibliography Index

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