The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Galata

  • colony
  • Mixed Byzantine and Western

The fortified suburb across the Golden Horn from the imperial city, a dense commercial quarter later associated with Latin and Genoese settlers. Its walls and harbor face the final sieges of Constantinople.

Type
colony
Style
Mixed Byzantine and Western
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 270
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The fortified suburb across the Golden Horn from the imperial city, a dense commercial quarter later associated with Latin and Genoese settlers. Its walls and harbor face the final sieges of Constantinople.

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