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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.

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.

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.

Venetian And Ottoman Castles Of The Peloponnese 13th 19th Centuries

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Author : Eric Pinzelli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-12-25

Venetian And Ottoman Castles Of The Peloponnese 13th 19th Centuries written by Eric Pinzelli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-25 with History categories.

Richly illustrated monograph (250 figures, 12 maps) showcasing castles and fortified towns of the Peloponnese garrisoned up to period of the Greek War of Independence (1820s). These castles were captured and retaken by the Venetians and their arch-enemies the Ottoman Turks during their centuries-long epic struggle for the domination of the southern Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean. Several of these seemingly impregnable fortresses (such as Mount Palamede at Nauplia, Modon and the New Castle of the Morea), designed by some of the most brilliant military engineers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, were state-of-the-art and to this day remain as a testament to their superb technical expertise. These strategic strongholds commanded the lands, on occasions providing safe havens, in other times forcing the local populations into submission. Newly-discovered material from the Venetian archives, with the addition of a large array of recently-published contributions for the Ottoman periods, combined with an updated examination of each of these fortresses will vastly add to the public's knowledge of Medieval and Early Modern southern Greece.

Those Infidel Greeks 2 Vols

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Author : H. Şükrü Ilıcak
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-09-06

Those Infidel Greeks 2 Vols written by H. Şükrü Ilıcak and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-06 with History categories.

The documents edited by H. Şükrü Ilıcak in Those Infidel Greeks comprise the English translations of select documents from the Ayniyat Registers on the Greek War of Independence preserved in the Ottoman State Archives. The primary importance of these documents is that they are a clear testimony of the larger imperial context in which the Greek War of Independence evolved and proved successful. The mass of information they contain is immense and allows the reader to follow on an almost day-to-day basis how an empire tried to suppress a national uprising—the first of its kind in the early nineteenth century. Contributors: Çağrı Erdoğan, H. Şükrü Ilıcak, Nikola Rakovski, Mehmet Savan, Kahraman Şakul, and Aysel Yıldız. This is a co-publication with the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation.

Land Of Sikyon

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Author : Yannis A. Lolos
language : en
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Release Date : 2011-12-31

Land Of Sikyon written by Yannis A. Lolos and has been published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-31 with History categories.

Ancient Sikyon, in the northeastern Peloponnese, was a major player on the Mediterranean stage, especially in the Archaic and Hellenistic periods. This comprehensive study combines a discussion of the geological and historical background with the results of original research based on many years of archaeological fieldwork. Author Yannis Lolos, drawing upon the limited excavations in Sikyonia, literary sources, and mostly his own extensive survey data, traces the history of the human presence in the territory of Sikyon from prehistory to the early modern period. A series of detailed maps plots the position of many previously unknown roads, fortifications, and settlement sites.