International Dictionary of Historic Places: Southern Europe

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Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Noelle Watson, Sharon La Boda, Paul Schellinger
Taylor & Francis, 1995 - History - 804 pages
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Contents

Aegina
1
Agrigento
5
Alalakh
10
Alcobaça
14
Altamira
19
Ampurias
23
Anazarbus
27
Andorra
30
Kos
384
Kotor
387
León
391
Lucca
395
Madrid
399
Mafra
403
Málaga
406
Malta
411

Antalya
36
Antioch
40
Aphrodisias
44
Arezzo
48
Argos
52
Aspendus
56
Assisi
58
Acropolis
63
Agora
67
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
Caserta
129
Cassino
132
Cephalonia
136
Chieti
140
Citium
144
Cnidus
148
Coimbra
151
Córdoba
155
Corinth
159
La Coruña
163
Covadonga
169
Crete
172
Cumae
176
Delos
180
Delphi
183
Didyma
187
Diyarbakır
190
Dubrovnik
194
Durrës
198
Edirne
202
Elba
206
Eleusis
210
Ephesus
214
Epidaurus
219
Erzurum
223
El Escorial
227
Euboea
231
Évora
235
Famagusta
238
Fátima
242
Ferrara
246
Fiesole
251
Piazza del Duomo
257
Piazza della Signoria
261
Ponte Vecchio
264
Gallipoli
267
Gela
271
Genoa
275
Gibraltar
280
Gijón
284
Gordium
288
Gortyn
292
Granada
296
La Granja de San Ildefonso
300
Gubbio
304
Guernica
308
Guimarães
311
Halicarnassus
314
Hattusa
318
Herculaneum
322
Hierapolis
327
Hvar
331
Blue Mosque
335
City Walls
339
Hagia Sophia
343
İzmir
348
Kanesh
353
Kars
357
Kastoria
361
KavalaPhilippi
364
Kayseri
368
Keos
372
KestelGoltepe
376
KonyaÇatal Hüyük
379
Mantua
416
Messenia
420
Metapontum
424
Metéora
427
Milan
431
Minorca
436
Mistra
440
Modena
444
Monaco
449
Monreale
455
Mount Athos
459
Mount Helicon
463
Mycenae
466
Naples
471
Nauplia
475
Naxos
479
Nora
483
Ohrid
486
OlympiaElis
491
Orvieto
495
Ostia AnticaPortus
498
Padua
504
Paestum
509
Palermo
515
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
583
Ponte and Castel SantAngelo
586
Vatican
590
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
751
Vergina
753
Verona
757
Vicenza
765
Zadar
769
Index
775
Notes on Contributors
815
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Other editions - View all

International Dictionary of Historic Places: Americas
Trudy Ring,Robert M. Salkin,Noelle Watson,Sharon La Boda,Paul Schellinger
No preview available - 1994
International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania
Trudy Ring,Robert M. Salkin,Paul E. Schellinger,Sharon La Boda,Noelle Watson,Christopher Hudson,Adele Hast
No preview available - 1994

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TitleInternational Dictionary of Historic Places: Southern Europe
Volume 1 of International Dictionary of Historic Places, Trudy Ring, ISBN 1884964052, 9781884964053
Volume 1 of International Dictionary of Historic Places. Vol.1: Americas. Editor Trudy Ring, Associate Editor Robert M. Salkin, Robert M. Salkin
EditorsTrudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Noelle Watson, Sharon La Boda, Paul Schellinger
Editionillustrated, annotated
PublisherTaylor & Francis, 1995
ISBN1884964028, 9781884964022
Length804 pages
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History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
  
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