I was away. I have been neglecting the blog. It got me exhausted. No! "When in april, the sweet showers fall/ that pierce March's drought to the root and all/ and bathed every vein in liquor that has power/ to generate therein and sire...
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Byzantium
We Istanbullites do not know much about the history of our home city. I am ashamed to say history is so much in the air that we are one of the spoilt kids of the Mediterranean. The excavations of the past decade in the historical peninsula have made...
Writing the monograph of a city is never an easy task, I am sure. even more difficult if the city is Istanbul, once known as Byzantium or Constantinople. The historian, Simon Sebag Montefiore takes on such a challenge trying to squeeze so much into...