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Byzantium and the Bosporus : a historical study, from the seventh century BC until the foundation of Constantinople /

"In AD 330 the Emperor Constantine consecrated the new capital of the eastern Roman Empire on the site of the ancient city of Byzantium. Its later history is well known, yet comparatively little is known about the city before it became Constantinople and then Istanbul. Although it was just a mi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russell, Thomas James, 1988- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:
Bosporus (Turkey) > History.
Istanbul (Turkey) > Social conditions.
Istanbul (Turkey) > Economic conditions.
Istanbul (Turkey) > Antiquities, Byzantine.
Bosporus (Turkey) > Antiquities, Byzantine.
Black Sea Coast (Turkey) > Antiquities, Byzantine.
Byzantium > History.
Byzantium > Social conditions.
Byzantium > Economic conditions.
Bosphore (Turquie) > Histoire.
Bosphore (Turquie) > Antiquités byzantines.
Noire, Côte de la mer (Turquie) > Antiquités byzantines.
Byzantine antiquities
Economic history
Social conditions
Black Sea > Bosporus
Turkey > Black Sea Coast
Turkey > Istanbul
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The land of Inachus
  • 2. Taxation and extortion: The Bosporus and the Delian League
  • 3. Common benefactors of all
  • 4. The bounty of the Bosporus
  • 5. 'The first Greek city to which we have come'
  • 6. Explaining Byzantium.