Elements in the History of Constantinople

About the series:

Few of the world’s great cities share a pedigree and history as rich as Constantinople. Originally founded, according Greek mythology, by Byzas – son of the god Poseidon, the town once known as Byzantion became a metropolis that dominated the Eastern Mediterranean for nearly two millennia. Constantinople – officially renamed Istanbul in the 1920s – has an extraordinary past, and an exhilarating present and future as modern Turkey wrestles with the present-day challenges and what the future may bring. This unrivalled series documents the immense scope of this metropolis, from its foundation through the domination of the Ottoman Empire to its place in our contemporary world, with leading scholars providing unbiased discussion of its religious, linguistic, and socio-economic evolution. Telling the history of Constantinople through its monuments and people, this series provides an important academic resource for scholars, journalists, activists, students, politicians and citizens; anyone demanding the thorough, impartial narrative that Constantinople deserves.

Series Editor: Peter Frankopan, University of Oxford

About the editor:

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is also Director of the Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. He specialises in the history of the Eastern Mediterranean from antiquity to the modern day, and is the author of the best-sellers The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015) and The New Silk Roads: The Future and Present of the World (2018).