International Dictionary of Historic Places: Southern EuropeTrudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda This five-volume set presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous sites in the world. Entries include location, description, and site details, and a 3,000- to 4,000-word essay that provides a full history of the site and its condition today. An annotated further reading list of books and articles about the site completes each entry. The geographically organized volumes include: * Volume 1: The Americas * [1-884964-00-1] * Volume 2: Northern Europe * [1-884964-01-X] * Volume 3: Southern Europe * [1-884964-02-8] * Volume 4: Middle East & Africa * [1-884964-03-6] * Volume 5: Asia & Oceania * [1-884964-04-4] |
Contents
Aegina | 1 |
Agrigento | 5 |
Alalakh | 10 |
Alcobaça | 14 |
Altamira | 19 |
Ampurias | 23 |
Anazarbus | 27 |
Andorra | 30 |
Nora | 483 |
Ohrid | 486 |
OlympiaElis | 491 |
Orvieto | 495 |
Ostia AnticaPortus | 498 |
Padua | 504 |
Paestum | 509 |
Palermo | 515 |
Antalya | 36 |
Antioch | 40 |
Aphrodisias | 44 |
Arezzo | 48 |
Argos | 52 |
Aspendus | 56 |
Assisi | 58 |
Acropolis | 62 |
Agora | 66 |
Ávila | 69 |
Badajoz | 72 |
Barcelona | 75 |
Batalha | 79 |
Benevento | 83 |
Bergamo | 88 |
Bobbio | 92 |
Bologna | 96 |
Burgos | 101 |
Bursa | 105 |
Cádiz | 109 |
Cagliari | 113 |
Calahorra | 117 |
Capri | 121 |
Capua | 125 |
La Coruña | 163 |
Covadonga | 169 |
Cumae | 176 |
Didyma | 187 |
Dubrovnik | 194 |
Edirne | 202 |
Eleusis | 210 |
Epidaurus | 219 |
El Escorial | 227 |
Famagusta | 238 |
Ferrara | 246 |
Piazza del Duomo | 257 |
Ponte Vecchio | 265 |
Gela | 271 |
Gibraltar | 280 |
Gordium | 288 |
Gubbio | 304 |
Guimarães | 311 |
Hattusa | 318 |
Hierapolis | 327 |
Blue Mosque | 335 |
Kanesh | 353 |
Kastoria | 361 |
Kayseri | 368 |
KestelGoltepe | 376 |
KonyaÇatal Hüyük | 384 |
León | 391 |
Madrid | 399 |
Málaga | 406 |
Mantua | 416 |
Metapontum | 424 |
Milan | 431 |
Mistra | 440 |
Monaco | 449 |
Monreale | 455 |
Mount Helicon | 463 |
Mycenae | 466 |
Naples | 471 |
Nauplia | 475 |
Naxos | 479 |
Palestrina | 519 |
Palma | 523 |
Pavia | 528 |
Pergamum | 532 |
PhigaliaBassae | 536 |
Pisa | 539 |
Pompeii | 543 |
Priene | 547 |
Pula | 551 |
Ravenna | 554 |
Rhodes | 560 |
Rimini | 564 |
Capitoline Hill | 569 |
Colosseum | 575 |
Forum | 579 |
Pantheon | 582 |
Ponte and Castel SantAngelo | 586 |
Vatican | 591 |
Salamanca | 596 |
Salamis | 599 |
Salerno | 602 |
Samothrace | 607 |
San Marino | 611 |
Şanlıurfa | 617 |
Santiago de Compostela | 621 |
Sarajevo | 625 |
Segovia | 630 |
Selinus | 634 |
Seville | 637 |
Side | 641 |
Siena | 644 |
Sinop | 649 |
Sintra | 653 |
Skopje | 657 |
Sofia | 661 |
Sparta | 666 |
Split | 670 |
Syracuse | 674 |
Taormina | 679 |
Taranto | 683 |
Tarquinia | 687 |
Thermopylae | 692 |
Thessaloníki | 696 |
Thíra | 700 |
Tiryns | 704 |
Tivoli | 708 |
Todi | 712 |
Toledo | 716 |
Troy | 720 |
Turin | 724 |
Urbino | 729 |
Valencia | 734 |
Van | 738 |
Velia | 741 |
RialtoGrand Canal | 745 |
St Marks Square | 749 |
Vergina | 753 |
Verona | 757 |
Vicenza | 765 |
Zadar | 769 |
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Notes on Contributors | 815 |
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International Dictionary of Historic Places: Americas Trudy Ring,Robert M. Salkin,Sharon La Boda No preview available - 1995 |
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