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Constantinople: A Sketch of its History from its Foundation to its Conquest by the Turks in 1453

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Constantinople
A Sketch of its History from its Foundation to its Conquest by the Turks in 1453
 (1879)
William Jackson Brodribb and Walter Besant
4283502Constantinople
A Sketch of its History from its Foundation to its Conquest by the Turks in 1453
1879William Jackson Brodribb and Walter Besant

CONSTANTINOPLE.

CONTENTS.


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PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER I.

BYZANTIUM—EARLY HISTORY
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CHAPTER II.

BYZANTIUM UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE
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CHAPTER III.

CONSTANTINOPLE FROM CONSTANTINE TO JUSTINIAN. A.D. 324-527
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CHAPTER IV.

CONSTANTINOPLE UNDER JUSTINIAN
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CHAPTER V.

THE ISAURIANS
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CHAPTER VI.

THE MACEDONIANS
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CHAPTER VII.

THE COMNENANS
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CHAPTER VIII.

THE CITY AND ITS PEOPLE
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CHAPTER IX.

THE LATIN CONQUEST
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CHAPTER X.

THE LATIN EMPIRE
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CHAPTER XI.

THE LAST EMPERORS
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CHAPTER XII.

FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE, A.D. 1453
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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