Constantinople, painted by Warwick Goble, described by Alexander Van Millingen
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The volume Constantinople is painted by Warwick Goble and described by Alexander Van Millingen. The text says the superiority of Byzantium to all rivals was so manifest that there was hardly room for long suspense as to the proper choice. The text says there is no place in the wide world more eminently fitted by natural advantages to be the throne of a great dominion than the promontory which guards the southern end of the Bosporus.
The text says the magnificent harbour was fitly named the Golden Horn, for it could be the richest emporium of the world's wealth. The text recounts a moment when the Christian community was threatened with the loss of every church, old or new, in its possession. The text addresses the reader's household, where one servant will be a Greek, another an Armenian, a third a German or an Englishman, and the gardener is a Croat.
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- Alexander Van Millingen
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- 126
- Language
- English
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- European History
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