By Bettany Hughes
Istanbul has continuously been a spot the place tales and histories collide and crackle, the place the belief is as effective because the old truth. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this urban with 3 names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a spot, and overspills its barriers - actual and imagined. status because the gateway among the East and West, it has served because the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman Empires. for a lot of its heritage it was once identified easily because the urban, yet, as Bettany Hughes unearths, Istanbul is not only a urban, yet a narrative.
In this epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a blinding historic trip during the many incarnations of 1 of the world's maximum towns. because the longest-lived political entity in Europe, over the past 6,000 years Istanbul has absorbed a mosaic of micro-cities and cultures all collecting round the middle. on the most recent count number archaeologists have measured forty-two human habitation layers. Phoenicians, Genoese, Venetians, Jews, Vikings, Azeris all known as a patch of this earth their domestic. in line with meticulous study and new archaeological facts, this appealing portrait of the momentous lifetime of Istanbul is visceral, instant and scholarly narrative heritage at its finest.
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