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In A.D. 330 Emperor Constantine inaugurated Constantinople as his capital on the site of the Greek city of Byzantium. The town remained the capital of the East Empire until 1453 when it was captured by the Turks. This book is a history of the Byzantine Empire which was centered upon its capital city- Constantinople. 'Lord Norwich's skill is to communicate, through the blackest twistings of the story, the humanity of his subject - the human faces of emperor and priest - and to transmit his own imaginative interest to ourselves...by focusing on vivid details Lord Norwich achieves the great object of making his narrative entertaining and his characters flesh and blood...He has appeared as a silver-tongued Virgil to guide us through Tartarian regions with the amenity and amusement of a luxury tour.'
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