Автор: David Nicolle
Название: Cross and Crescent in the Balkans: The Ottoman Conquest of Southeastern Europe (14th - 15th centuries)
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2011
ISBN: 9781844159543
Язык: English
Формат: epub
Размер: 5,1 mb
Страниц: 272

One hundred and eight years later the Byzantine capital of Constantinople fell to what was by then a hugely powerful and expanding empire of the Islamic Ottoman Turks, whose rulers came to see themselves as the natural and legitimate heirs of their Byzantine and indeed Roman predecessors. The book sets the scene, explains the background and tells the story, both military, political, cultural and personal, of the winners and the losers, plus those 'outsiders' who were increasingly being drawn into the dramatic story of the rise of the Ottoman Empire.