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A traveller's history of Turkey / Richard Stoneman ; line drawings, John Hoste.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stoneman, Richard.
- Series:
- Traveller's history
- The traveller's history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historic sites.
- Turkey--History.
- Turkey.
- History.
- Historic sites--Turkey--Guidebooks.
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- Fourth revised and updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Northhampton, Mass. : Interlink Books, 2006.
- Summary:
- A Traveller's History of Turkey offers a full and accurate portrait of the region from Prehistory right up to the present day. Particular emphasis is given to those aspects of history which have left their mark in the sites and monuments that are still visible today.
- Modern Turkey is the creation of the present century, but at least seven ancient civilizations had their homes in the region. Turkey also formed a significant part of several empires-those of Persia, Rome, and Byzantium, before becoming the center of the opulent Ottoman Empire. All of these great cultures have left their marks on the landscape, architecture, and art of Turkey-a place of bewildering facets where East meets West with a flourish.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Prehistoric Anatolia 1
- Chapter 2 The Hittite Age, 2000-1250 BC 9
- Chapter 3 From the Dark Ages to the Persian Conquest, 1250-494 BC 21
- Chapter 4 The Persian Empire at War with the Greeks, 494-334 BC 39
- Chapter 5 Alexander the Great and his Legacy, 334-133 BC 55
- Chapter 6 The Impact of Rome, 193BC-AD 330 71
- Chapter 7 The Byzantine Empire, From the Foundation of Constantinople to the Battle of Manzikert, AD 330-1071 89
- Chapter 8 The Byzantine Empire and the Turks, 1071-1461 111
- Chapter 9 The Ottoman Empire I: The Age of Expansion, 1453-1699 133
- Chapter 10 The Ottoman Empire II: The Sick Man of Europe, 1699-1909 149
- Chapter 11 The Ataturk Years, 1909-1938 168
- Chapter 12 Modern Turkey, 1939-present 183
- Major Battles 215
- Historical Gazetteer 231
- 1 Prehistoric and Bronze Age Asia Minor 2
- 2 Greek and Roman Asia Minor 72
- 3 The Byzantine Empire c. 1025 104
- 4 Byzantine and Selcuk Asia Minor in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 116
- 5 The Ottoman Empire c. 1676 143
- 6 Contemporary Turkey 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1566566207
- OCLC:
- 62188487
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