Accidental Discoveries: The Search for Byzantine Eagles in Modern Istanbul

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Accidental Discoveries:  The Search for Byzantine Eagles in Modern Istanbul

Gary Audas Jr.

(Copyright 2012)

A traveler would be hard pressed to discover overt displays of Byzantine lordship in modern Istanbul, the successor to the imperial city of Constantinople, the seat of the Byzantine Empire.

When Constantinople at long last fell to the armies of the Ottoman Turks in 1453, it ended an empire that stretched from the fourth to the fifteenth century (330-1453). 

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