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Describing Constantinople

Overview

J. Ebersolt, Sanctuaires de Byzance : recherches sur les anciens tresors des eglises de Constantinople (Paris 1921)

Janin, Raymond, Constantinople byzantine : développement urbain et repertoire topographique (Paris, 1950)

Constantinople byzantine : dévelopement urbain et repertoire topographique. 2. ed. (Paris, 1964)

La geographie ecclesiastique de l'empire byzantin: Premiere partie: Le siege de Constantinople et le Patriarcat Oecumenique. - Tome 3: Les eglises et les monastères. (Paris : Institut Francais d'Etudes Byzantines, 1953.) Edited by V. Laurent

G. Downey, 'Notes on the topography of Constantinople', Art Bulletin 34 (1952), 235-236

R. Guilland, Etudes de topographie de Constantinople byzantine. (Paris, 1969)

W. Müller-Wiener, Bildlexikon zur Topographie Istanbuls (Tübingen, 1977)

C. Mango, Le développement urbain de Constantinople (IVe - VIIe siècle) (Paris, 1985)

C. Mango, Studies on Constantinople (Variorum, 1993)

Constantinople and its hinterland (Papers of the 27th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, 1993, Oxford), ed. C. Mango (Aldershot, 1995)

P. Magdalino, Constantinople Médiévale (Paris, 1996)

See Constantinople: The Fabric of the City Dumbarton Oaks Symposium 1998, in DOP 54 (2000)

 A. Berger, 'Streets and Public Spaces in Constantinople ', DOP 54 (2000)

On the Internet see

Constantinople Home Page

Byzantine Architecture Project, at Princeton

and bibliography

Byzantium 1200

Istanbul documentation project

For a more political angle see, e.g.,  History of Byzantium

and for tourism see


Istanbul Tourist guide 1

Istanbul Tourist guide 2

and several more


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