Alexander Van Millingen

PREFACE.

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

BYZANTINE CONSTANTINOPLE. CHAPTER I. THE SITE OF CONSTANTINOPLE THE LIMITS OF BYZANTIUM.

CHAPTER II. THE CITY OF CONSTANTINE ITS LIMITS FORTIFICATIONS INTERIOR ARRANGEMENT.

CHAPTER III. THE THEODOSIAN WALLS.

CHAPTER IV. THE GATES IN THE THEODOSIAN WALLS.

CHAPTER V. THE GATES IN THE THEODOSIAN WALLS continued .

CHAPTER VI. REPAIRS ON THE THEODOSIAN WALLS.

CHAPTER VII. THE PALACE OF THE PORPHYROGENITUS.

CHAPTER VIII. THE FORTIFICATIONS ON THE NORTH-WESTERN SIDE OF THE CITY, BEFORE THE SEVENTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER IX. THE WALL OF THE EMPEROR MANUEL COMNENUS.

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CHAPTER X. THE TOWER OF ANEMAS THE TOWER OF ISAAC ANGELUS.

CHAPTER XI. INMATES OF THE PRISON OF ANEMAS.

CHAPTER XII. THE WALL OF THE EMPEROR HERACLIUS: THE WALL OF THE EMPEROR LEO THE ARMENIAN.

CHAPTER XIII. THE SEAWARD WALLS.

CHAPTER XIV. THE WALLS ALONG THE GOLDEN HORN.

CHAPTER XV. THE WALLS ALONG THE GOLDEN HORN continued .

CHAPTER XVI. THE WALLS ALONG THE SEA OF MARMORA.

CHAPTER XVII. THE HARBOURS ON THE SEA OF MARMORA.

CHAPTER XVIII. THE HARBOURS ON THE SEA OF MARMORA continued .

CHAPTER XIX. THE HEBDOMON.

CHAPTER XX. THE ANASTASIAN WALL.

TABLE OF EMPERORS.

INDEX.

Map of Constantinople in 1422.

Ἐγὼ δὲ ὧς μητέρα φιλῶ καὶ γὰρ ἐγενόμην πὰρ᾽ αὐτῇ καὶ ἐτράφην ἐκεῖσε, καὶ οὐ δύναμαι περὶ αὐτὴν ἀγνωμονῆσαι.

Emperor Julian, Epistle 58.