With its location as a port, Istanbul has always absorbed ideas, people and styles from north, south, east and west. Peter Clark looks at some of the representative personalities of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and argues that these states had more in common than ideology-driven accounts may suggest. We learn about Spanish-speaking Jews, unexpected Ottoman connections with Poland, contemporary Islamist politics and the feverish support for the three major Istanbul football teams. Both Trotsky and Pope John XXIII spent important years of their lives in the city.
- ISBN10 1904955762
- ISBN13 9781904955764
- Publish Date 14 September 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Signal Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English