Reclaiming Byzantium : Russia, Turkey and the archaeological claim to the Middle East in the 19th century / Pınar Üre.
There is a long-held feeling in Russia that Moscow is the true heir to the Christian Byzantine Empire. In 1894, Imperial Russia opened one of the world's leading centers for Byzantine archaeology in Istanbul, the Russian Archaeological Institute. Its purpose was to stake the claim that Russia w...
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Üre, Pınar
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
[2020]
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