Castles Of Northwest Greece
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Castles Of Northwest Greece
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Author : Allan Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Aetos Press
Release Date : 2013-05-01
Castles Of Northwest Greece written by Allan Brooks and has been published by Aetos Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Architecture categories.
Northwest Greece has always been relatively isolated from the rest of the Greek mainland and, with the exception of small pockets of intense development on the coast, is still little visited by foreign tourists. Modern guidebooks of necessity concentrate on the few important classical and Hellenistic sites with only passing reference to medieval and later fortifications. Yet these monuments bear witness to the complex later history of the region when Norman, Italian, Angevin, Serbian, Venetian, Turkish and Albanian invaders competed for control. This book is intended to redress this imbalance by providing a detailed guide to a selection of the castles and forts of the area dating from the early Byzantine period to the eve of the First World War.
Castles Of The Morea
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Author : Kevin Andrews
language : en
Publisher: ASCSA
Release Date : 2006
Castles Of The Morea written by Kevin Andrews and has been published by ASCSA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Architecture categories.
First published in 1953, this book presents a description of 16 of the larger medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese, occupied by the Venetians between 1685 and 1715. It is also a beautifully written celebration of some of Greece's most striking, but also least studied, architectural monuments, inspired by a unique collection of 17th-century fortification plans (the Grimani codex) preserved in the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The author first saw the plans in 1948 and devoted the next four years of his life to a historical and archaeological investigation of the castles they depicted. At a time when most of the students at the American School were studying the classics, his interest in later Greek history was pioneering. He not only searched out hundreds of obscure documentary sources but also made a point of visiting, and personally describing and photographing, every castle. This was not an easy thing to do at the tail end of the Greek Civil War. The final publication was an instant classic, marked out by its evocative prose and Andrews's obvious fascination with the subject. The book has been long out of print. This new edition presents Andrews's original text with a new introduction which sets the work in context and discusses some of the developments in Greek castle studies since the 1950s. The Grimani maps, originally printed only in black and white, are now presented in their original colors.
Fortresses And Castles Of Greece
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Author : Alexander Paradissis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Fortresses And Castles Of Greece written by Alexander Paradissis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with categories.
Fortresses And Castles Of Greece
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Author : Alexandros Paradeisēs
language : en
Publisher: Efstathiadis Group/Bay Foreing Langua
Release Date : 1972
Fortresses And Castles Of Greece written by Alexandros Paradeisēs and has been published by Efstathiadis Group/Bay Foreing Langua this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Castles categories.
Greece is strewn with hundreds of castles and fortresses of all ages and civilisations. This rugged and curious region in the southernmost part of Europe, at the vantage point of the Mediterranean, so close to Asia and Africa is full of Acropoli, castles and fortresses either on top of mountains or on coasts. There exist walls of neolithic citadels six and seven thousand years old, Acropoli two and three thousand years old, castles and fortresses of Venetian, Frankish, Byzantine and others as old as three thousand years and even more. This series by the eminent historian Alexander Paradissis, is perhaps the only study of the subject covering the whole of Greek history. The comprehensive material, maps, plans and illustrations will satisfy historians and tourists alike. Volume One covers Northern and East Central Greece; Volume Two covers Southern and West Central Greece; Volume Three covers the Greek Islands.
Fortresses And Castles Of Greece
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Author : Alexander Paradissis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
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In Crusader Greece
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Author : Eric Forbes-Boyd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
In Crusader Greece written by Eric Forbes-Boyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Castles categories.
Crusader Castles In Cyprus Greece And The Aegean 1191 1571
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Author : David Nicolle
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-05-20
Crusader Castles In Cyprus Greece And The Aegean 1191 1571 written by David Nicolle and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-20 with History categories.
The castles built by the Crusaders, Hospitallers, Venetians and Genoese in Cyprus, Greece, the Aegean, and on the Black Sea served to defend against a complex array of constantly changing threats: Mamluks, Catalan mercenaries, Ottoman Turks, Byzantines, independent Islamic states, Timur-i-Lenk, and widespread piracy, to name but few. The resulting fortifications some inherited from conquered the territories of the former Byzantine empire, some built from scratch were very different to those found in the Middle East. This superbly illustrated book explores their design, development and fate in detail, documenting the rich architectural heritage of this region and its complex history.
Fortresses And Castles Of Greece
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Author : Alexander Paradissis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
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Fortresses And Castles Of Greek Islands
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Author : Alexander Paradissis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982-12
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Ali Pasha Lion Of Ioannina
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Author : Quentin Russell
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2017-09-30
Ali Pasha Lion Of Ioannina written by Quentin Russell and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-30 with History categories.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Yanina and the Balkan Napoleon, into the consciousness of Western rulers and the general public? This book charts the rise of Ali Pasha from brigand leader to a player in world affairs and, ultimately, to a gruesome end.Ali exploited the internal weakness of the Ottoman Empire to carve out his own de facto empire in Albania and Western Greece. Although a ruthless tyrant guilty of cruel atrocities, his lavish court became an attraction to Western travelers, most famously Lord Byron, and his military prowess led Britain, Russia and France to seek his alliance during the Napoleonic Wars. His activities undermined the Sultans authority and ultimately led to the Greek War of Independence.Quentin and Eugenia Russell describe his remarkable life and military career as well as the legacy he bequeathed in his homeland as a nationalist hero and further afield as inspiration for writers and artists of the Romantic movement.