Athens (Innercities)
John Gill
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Paperback. Series: Innercities. Num Pages: 224 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
Athens is an historical anomaly. Excavations date its first settlement to over seven thousand years ago, yet it only became the capital of Greece in 1834. During the intervening centuries it was occupied by almost every mobile culture in Europe: from its earliest likely settlers, tribes from what is now Albania, to Nazi forces during the second World War, and in between by successive waves of Persians, Macedonians, Romans, Slavs, Goths, Venetians, French, Catalans, Turks, Italians, Bulgarians and the clans of various kings and tyrants of the region's early city-states. There has been a structure on its 'high city', the ... Read more
Athens is an historical anomaly. Excavations date its first settlement to over seven thousand years ago, yet it only became the capital of Greece in 1834. During the intervening centuries it was occupied by almost every mobile culture in Europe: from its earliest likely settlers, tribes from what is now Albania, to Nazi forces during the second World War, and in between by successive waves of Persians, Macedonians, Romans, Slavs, Goths, Venetians, French, Catalans, Turks, Italians, Bulgarians and the clans of various kings and tyrants of the region's early city-states. There has been a structure on its 'high city', the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Innercities
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904955832
SKU
V9781904955832
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99-50
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