Sultans of Rome: The Turkish World Expansion (Asia in Europe and the Making of the West, 3) - Tapa blanda

Ball, Warwick

 
9781566568487: Sultans of Rome: The Turkish World Expansion (Asia in Europe and the Making of the West, 3)
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ISBN 10: 156656848X ISBN 13: 9781566568487
Editorial: Olive Branch Press, 2012

Sinopsis

It has become conventional to think of the Turkish capture of Constantinople in 1453 as an Asiatic conquest. The Turks originated in Asia—it is true—but Constantinople was conquered from the west not the east: the Ottomans became a European power before they became a Middle Eastern one and remained a primarily European power. Indeed, the Middle East and even most of Anatolia itself was conquered from Europe. This demonstrates that it was no sudden rush of semi-civilized horse-riding nomads from the steppe, but the culmination of complex movements that had seen Turkish dynasties establish glittering monuments and cities throughout Asia. And when Turks first entered Anatolia in the 11th century, it was a Byzantine Emperor who made a relatively minor Turkish prince the first Sultan in the land that would come to be known as Turkey—a prince, furthermore, who called himself not Sultan of Turkey, but Sultan of Rome! Few people, therefore, combine so thoroughly the legacies of Europe and Asia, East and West, the civilizations of Greece and Rome with that of Islam, the Near East and beyond. Few have bridged so many civilizations; have brought so many cultural strands together. Their story is as much our history as well as theirs and others

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Warwick Ball is a Near Eastern archaeologist who has spent over twenty-five years carrying out excavations, architectural studies, and monumental restoration throughout the Middle East. He has led many tours to Syria and has written numerous books and articles on Western Asia.

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Editorial
Olive Branch Press
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
156656848X
ISBN 13 
9781566568487
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Número de páginas
288
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