Istanbul : A Tale of Three Cities
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Life-filled and life-affirming history,
steeped in romance and written with verve' GUARDIAN'Richly
entertaining and impeccably reserached' Peter FrankopanIstanbul has
always been a place where stories and histories collide and
crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From
the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium,
Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and
overspills its boundaries - real and imagined. Standing as the
gateway between the East and West, it has served as the capital of
the Roman, Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman Empires. 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. At the latest count archaeologists have
measured forty-two human habitation layers. 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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