Название: Constantinople: A Thousand Years of Byzantine History
Автор: Leonard Cottrell
Издательство: Plantagenet Somerset Fry, F.R.S.A.
Год: 1970
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 90
Размер: 11,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
Originally just a small Greek colony, Constantinople was built on a magnificent strategic sit on the wetern bank of the Bosphorus, that narrow sea-channel which separates Europe from Asia. Under Constantine, and especially under his Roman successors, it became the capitol of the eastern Roman Empire and at times of all Christian Europe.