Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire

William Holden Hutton

PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

TABLE OF EMPERORS

CHAPTER I The History of the City in ancient and mediAEval times

CHAPTER II Constantinople under the Turks

CHAPTER III The Churches

CHAPTER IV The Walls

CHAPTER V The Mosques, Turbehs and Fountains

CHAPTER VI The Palaces

CHAPTER VII Antiquities

INDEX

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Note:

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, and use of diacritics in the original document have been preserved.

On page 38, "Theodore of Tyrone" should possibly be "Theodore of Tyron".

On page 97, "εἰς πήγας" should possibly be "εἰς πηγάς".

On page 215, "paying vengeance on his head" should possibly be "praying vengeance on his head".

On page 256, the caption has been changed to agree with the text.

On page 284, "πήγη" should possibly be "πηγή".

On page 312, "GÜl KkÂneh Kiosk" may be a typo.

The Story of Constantinople

Interior of S. Sophia.
Showing the Sultan's pew and the stairs to the pulpit.

Title Page

Constantinople

The Story of the old Capital
of the Empire by William
Holden Hutton, Fellow of
S. John Baptist College, Oxford.
Illustrated by Sydney Cooper

London: J. M. Dent & Co.
Aldine House, 29 and 30 Bedford Street
Covent Garden, W.C. · · 1900

This superb successor

Of the earth's mistress, as thou vainly speakest,

Stands 'midst these ages as, on the wide ocean,

The last spared fragment of a spacious land,

That in some grand and awful ministration

Of mighty nature has engulfed been,

Doth lift aloft its dark and rocky cliffs

O'er the wild waste around, and sadly frowns

In lonely majesty.

I was the daughter of Imperial Rome,

Crowned by her Empress of the mystic east:

Most Holy Wisdom chose me for her home

Sealed me Truth's regent, and High Beauty's priest.

Lo! when fate struck with hideous flame and sword,

Far o'er the new world's life my grace was poured.

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