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Tag Archives: Eastern Europe
Sailing from Byzantium
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World© 2005 Colin Wells368 pages Isaac Asimov referred to Byzantium as a forgotten empire, lost and dismissed to the western mind as a decayed remnant of a once-great … Continue reading
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Tagged Classics and Literary, Eastern Europe, Eastern Rome/Byzantine, history, Islam, literature, Medieval, Middle East, Near East, religion, Russia
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A Short History of Byzantium
A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich© 1997 John Julius Norwich431 pages Rome fell in a.d. 474? Tell that to the Byzantines, who for centuries persisted in being an afterimage of the classical world, … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, classical world, Eastern Europe, Eastern Rome/Byzantine, Medieval, Middle East, Near East, religion, Rome, Turkey
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