Istanbul City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World – Audiobook Online

Istanbul City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World is a history book by author Thomas F. Madden.
A first one-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of past and present civilizations.

Istanbul stood at the crossroads of the world, located at the pole of Europe, overlooking the shores of Asia. The history of this city – known as Byzantium, then Constantinople, now Istanbul – is both glorious, grand and astonishing. Founded by the Greeks, its location blessed it as a center of commerce but also made it the target of every empire in history, from Alexander the Great and his Macedonian Empire , to the Romans and then the Ottomans. Emperor Constantine I re-established the city as New Rome, the capital of the eastern Roman Empire, and greatly expanded the city, filling it with treasures of art and adorning its streets with palaces. luxury electric. Constantine built new, truly impregnable walls, preserving power. Wealth and resistance to any invaders – the walls still stand for tourists to visit.

From the ancient past to the present, we meet the city through its ordinary citizens – the Jews, the Muslims, the Italians, the Greeks and the Russians, who used the baths. famous and strolled in the markets – and rulers who built it and then demolished it, including Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who named the city “Istanbul” in 1930.

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