Istanbul by Bettany Hughes

Author:Bettany Hughes [HUGHES, BETTANY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2017-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

Some Christian traditions continued in the city after the Ottoman conquest and still do to this day – here is the Greek Patriarch Joachim III’s funeral procession in 1912.

The Ottomans, long a semi-nomadic, raiding people, needed others with deeper roots if this urban experiment was to work. They imported an administrative system and populations from across their newly consolidated territories – from Anatolia, from Trebizond/Trabzon on the Black Sea and from the Morea in the Peloponnese. Nobles, artisans, traders were particularly welcome. Prisoners who could pay their own ransom were given houses. The lag of a decade before any significant mosque-building was undertaken suggests that when the conquering forces first arrived they had neither the manpower nor the skill in town planning to remake the city in their own image. If this rebranded Constantinople was going to work it would have to succeed thanks to a mixture of pragmatism and PR.

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