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Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 - Mansel, Philip
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Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history of Constantinople (formerly known as Byzantium) absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last Caliph hurriedly left on the Orient Express. For almost five centuries Constantinople, with its enormous racial and cultural diversity, was the ...

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Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 2006, John Murray Publishers Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780719568800

Mass-market paperback

Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 1998, St. Martin's Griffin, New York

ISBN-13: 9780312187088

Trade paperback

Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 1996, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780312145743

Us edition

Hardcover

Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 1995, John Murray Publishers Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780719550768

Hardcover