A Traveller's Companion to Istanbul

by Laurence Kelly

Book Overview

The history of the city where East meets West spans 28 centuries. Istanbul, the ancient and timeless heart of modern Turkey, is a city with its mythological origins in the seventh century BC. Founded as Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire by Constantine the Great, during the 1000-year Byzantine Empire that followed it was a city of fabled riches. After its fall to the Turks in 1453, the splendors of the Ottoman Empire kept it glorious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156656574X
• ISBN13: 9781566565745
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.8"