Byzantine Constantinople: The Walls of the City and Adjoining Historical SitesJ. Murray, 1899 - 361 من الصفحات |
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ancient Andronicus Anna Comn Anonymus Balat Kapoussi beside Bosporus Bucoleon Byzantine Byzantium Cange Cantacuzene Cedrenus Church of St Codinus Consple Constantine Constantinople defence Du Cange Ducas emperor entrance erected feet fortifications Galata Gate of Charisius Gate of St Golden Gate Golden Horn Greek Gyllius Hebdomon Heptascalon Heraclius Hormisdas Ibid Imperial Gate INSCRIPTION IN HONOUR Isaac Angelus John Justinian Kerko Porta Kontoscalion Koum Kapoussi Kynegos land walls Leo Diaconus Manuel Comnenus Marcellinus Comes Michael Michael III Moat Monastery Mordtmann Mosque Neorion Nicephorus Nicetas Chon Notitia Pachymeres Palace of Blachernæ Palæologus Paschal Chron Paspates Phrantzes Porphyr Porphyrogenitus Porta Aurea postern prison of Anemas promontory quarter reign repairs Romanus Sea of Marmora Serai ships shore siege Sixth Hill stood suburb Sultan supra Tchatlady Kapou Theodosian Walls Theodosius Theodosius II Theophanes Theophanes Cont Tower of Anemas Tower of Isaac Turkish Vlanga ἐν καὶ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῦ τῶν
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الصفحة 42 - No longer is the vacant ground in the city more extensive than that occupied by buildings ; nor are we cultivating more territory within our walls than we inhabit ; the beauty of the city is not as heretofore scattered over it in patches, but covers the whole area like a robe woven to the very fringe.
الصفحة 166 - With a view of increasing the wall's capacity for defence, it was flanked by four small towers, while its lower portion was pierced by numerous loopholes. Two of the towers were on the side facing the Golden Horn, and the other two guarded the extremities of the side looking towards the country on the west. The latter towers projected inwards from the rear of the wall, and between them was a gateway corresponding to the Heraclian gate of Blachernae.
الصفحة 46 - ... with an energy worthy of Anthemius, and his name, in Greek and in Latin, may still be read on one of the gates. He not only restored the Anthemian wall but he erected a second wall in front of it, outside of which was constructed a broad and deep moat. Thus the city was placed behind a triple line of defence. ' The walls were flanked by 192 towers, while the ground between the two walls and that between the outer wall and the moat provided room for the action of large bodies of troops. These...
الصفحة 66 - Castellano and the people beganne to mutine, and fell upon a strange conceit; insomuch that hee was forced to retyre, and presently sent for my enterpreter, demanding if I had any old booke of prophesy : inferring, that those statues were enchanted, and that wee knew, when they should bee taken downe, some great alteration should befall this citty. Hee spake of a vault...
الصفحة 66 - I haue vsed all means, and once bought them, and deposed, 3 moneths, 500 dollers. Without authority, the danger and impossibility were alike; therefore I dealt with the great treasurer, who in these tymes is greedy of any mony, and hee had consented to deliuer them into a boat without any hazard of my part. The last weeke hee rode himself to see them, and carried the...
الصفحة 42 - ... the beauty of the city is not as heretofore scattered over it in patches, but covers the whole area like a robe woven to the very fringe. The city gleams with gold and porphyry. It has a [new] Forum, named after the Emperor ; it owns baths, porticos, gymnasia ; and its former extremity is now its centre.
الصفحة 67 - I vnderstand not; which, concurring with the rumour of the Cossacks, filled them with superstition, and suspition of mee; in conclusion, hee sent to mee, to think, nor mention no more that place, which might cost his life, and bring mee into trouble; so that I despair to effect therein your graces seruice: and it is true, though I could not gett the stones, yet I almost raised an insurrection in that part of the citty....
الصفحة v - ... So little is the interpretation of those old ruined walls known to the multitude, that Professor Van Millingen feels it necessary to explain and almost apologize for giving time to his minute examination of dusty records and dustier fragments of ruined structures. For at the very outset he explains that "the Empire, of which New Rome was- the capital, defended the higher life of mankind against formidable antagonists, and rendered eminent service to the cause of human welfare. This is what gives...
الصفحة 4 - ... have been put so strikingly and freshly by Mr A. van Millingen, in his recent scientific work on the walls and gates of Constantinople, that we need not hesitate to quote a part of his description (Byzantine Constantinople, p. 4). No city owes so much to its site Nowhere is the influence of geography upon history more strikingly marked. Here, to a degree that is marvellous, the possibilities of the freest and widest intercourse blend with the possibilities of complete isolation. No city can be...
الصفحة 66 - I cannot, because they stand vpon the ancient gate, the most conspicuous of the cyttye, though now mured up, beeing the entrance by the castell called the Seauen Towers, and neuer opened since the Greeke emperors lost yt: to offer to steale them, no man dares to deface the cheefe seate of the grand signor: to procure them by fauour, is more impossible, such enuy they beare vnto us.