Mediterranean Melting Pot (III): Byzantium and Turkey

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My Name Is Red
My Name Is Red 3.87 avg rating — 60,040 ratings
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Snow
Snow 3.62 avg rating — 48,684 ratings
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Istanbul: Memories and the City
Istanbul: Memories and the City 3.82 avg rating — 21,662 ratings
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The Bastard of Istanbul
The Bastard of Istanbul 3.88 avg rating — 61,736 ratings
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Birds Without Wings
Birds Without Wings 4.16 avg rating — 15,940 ratings
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The Forty Rules of Love
The Forty Rules of Love 4.12 avg rating — 196,680 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) 4.20 avg rating — 702,502 ratings
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The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch #1)
The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch #1) 3.55 avg rating — 6,577 ratings
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The Black Book
The Black Book 3.92 avg rating — 12,994 ratings
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West 4.25 avg rating — 6,902 ratings
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Byzantium
Byzantium 4.21 avg rating — 5,341 ratings
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Baudolino
Baudolino 3.80 avg rating — 24,890 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 4.02 avg rating — 15,255 ratings
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Belshazzar's Daughter (Inspector Ikmen, #1)
Belshazzar's Daughter (Inspector Ikmen, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 2,395 ratings
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The Fall of Constantinople 1453
The Fall of Constantinople 1453 4.32 avg rating — 1,512 ratings
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Memed, My Hawk (İnce Memed, #1)
Memed, My Hawk (İnce Memed, #1) 4.49 avg rating — 12,362 ratings
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The Secret History
The Secret History
by: Procopius
3.84 avg rating — 3,331 ratings
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The Oracle of Stamboul
The Oracle of Stamboul 3.53 avg rating — 3,791 ratings
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Byzantium: The Early Centuries
Byzantium: The Early Centuries 4.34 avg rating — 1,869 ratings
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Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World 3.86 avg rating — 908 ratings
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Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds 3.85 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
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The Sheen on the Silk
The Sheen on the Silk 3.50 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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Byzantium: The Apogee
Byzantium: The Apogee 4.41 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
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Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall 4.44 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
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Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses, and Saints
Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses, and Saints 3.61 avg rating — 235 ratings
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A Short History of Byzantium
A Short History of Byzantium 4.11 avg rating — 2,596 ratings
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Perking the Pansies - Jack and Liam move to Turkey
Perking the Pansies - Jack and Liam move to Turkey 4.04 avg rating — 158 ratings
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The Snake Stone (Yashim the Eunuch, #2)
The Snake Stone (Yashim the Eunuch, #2) 3.78 avg rating — 2,248 ratings
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Constantinople: The Forgotten Empire
Constantinople: The Forgotten Empire 4.29 avg rating — 594 ratings
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The White Castle
The White Castle 3.48 avg rating — 16,399 ratings
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Ironfire
Ironfire 4.30 avg rating — 1,700 ratings
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The Disorderly Knights (The Lymond Chronicles #3)
The Disorderly Knights (The Lymond Chronicles #3) 4.58 avg rating — 4,096 ratings
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Pawn in Frankincense (The Lymond Chronicles, #4)
Pawn in Frankincense (The Lymond Chronicles, #4) 4.62 avg rating — 4,005 ratings
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Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire 3.64 avg rating — 1,585 ratings
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Greenmantle
Greenmantle 3.73 avg rating — 5,119 ratings
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The Oxford History of Byzantium
The Oxford History of Byzantium 3.96 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Harem (Cetin Ikmen, #5)
Harem (Cetin Ikmen, #5) 3.94 avg rating — 626 ratings
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The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire
The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire 4.05 avg rating — 1,006 ratings
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The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600
The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 4.18 avg rating — 1,085 ratings
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Blue Voyage
Blue Voyage 3.96 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 4.26 avg rating — 906 ratings
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Count Belisarius
Count Belisarius 4.02 avg rating — 2,832 ratings
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The Alexiad
The Alexiad 4.06 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
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Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe 3.67 avg rating — 2,466 ratings
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The Flea Palace
The Flea Palace 3.39 avg rating — 7,469 ratings
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The Ottoman Cage (Inspector Ikmen, #2)
The Ottoman Cage (Inspector Ikmen, #2) 3.91 avg rating — 1,580 ratings
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Byzantium, 330-1453
Byzantium, 330-1453 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Belisarius: The Last Roman General
Belisarius: The Last Roman General 3.85 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261
The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261 4.37 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Justinian
Justinian 3.80 avg rating — 235 ratings
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Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 565-1204
Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 565-1204 4.21 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Peace Be Upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence
Peace Be Upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence 3.96 avg rating — 170 ratings
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A Time to Keep Silence
A Time to Keep Silence 3.86 avg rating — 1,852 ratings
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Zabójca z miasta moreli. Reportaże z Turcji
Zabójca z miasta moreli. Reportaże z Turcji 4.30 avg rating — 1,406 ratings
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Skylark Farm
Skylark Farm 3.83 avg rating — 1,996 ratings
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Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon
Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon 4.11 avg rating — 1,866 ratings
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Turkey: The Raw Guide
Turkey: The Raw Guide 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Place Called Armageddon
A Place Called Armageddon 3.88 avg rating — 767 ratings
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Justinian's "Institutes"
Justinian's "Institutes" 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Digest of Justinian
The Digest of Justinian really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Scotch and Holy Water
Scotch and Holy Water 4.20 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire
The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire 4.72 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Digest of Roman Law: Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult
The Digest of Roman Law: Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult 3.43 avg rating — 79 ratings
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An Oblique Approach (Belisarius, #1)
An Oblique Approach (Belisarius, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 4,294 ratings
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The Towers of Trebizond
The Towers of Trebizond 3.68 avg rating — 1,800 ratings
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization 4.12 avg rating — 5,370 ratings
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire 3.91 avg rating — 2,789 ratings
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The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean 3.89 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, Volume 1
History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, Volume 1 3.96 avg rating — 115 ratings
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A History of Byzantium
A History of Byzantium 3.93 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Justinian: The Last Roman Emperor
Justinian: The Last Roman Emperor 3.89 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean 4.17 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian 4.39 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure, and Liturgy of Justinian's Great Church
Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure, and Liturgy of Justinian's Great Church 4.47 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Ottoman Empire, 1300 - 1650: The Structure of Power
The Ottoman Empire, 1300 - 1650: The Structure of Power 3.74 avg rating — 224 ratings
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The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople 4.08 avg rating — 860 ratings
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The Fall of Constantinople: The Ottoman Conquest of Byzantium
The Fall of Constantinople: The Ottoman Conquest of Byzantium 3.72 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 3.96 avg rating — 435 ratings
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East 4.22 avg rating — 9,543 ratings
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The New Turkey: The Quiet Revolution on the Edge of Europe
The New Turkey: The Quiet Revolution on the Edge of Europe 3.59 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Kingdom of Snow: Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia
Kingdom of Snow: Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature
Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code 4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings
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The Silencer
The Silencer 3.75 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Silent House
Silent House 3.74 avg rating — 9,640 ratings
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The Stone of Destiny: Tales from Turkey
The Stone of Destiny: Tales from Turkey liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The World War Deception
The World War Deception 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Ghosts of Smyrna
The Ghosts of Smyrna 4.16 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi (Grazia dei Rossi, #2)
The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi (Grazia dei Rossi, #2) 3.67 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Tears of Pearl (Lady Emily, #4)
Tears of Pearl (Lady Emily, #4) 3.73 avg rating — 7,189 ratings
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The Rage of the Vulture
The Rage of the Vulture 3.44 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 4.33 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World 4.05 avg rating — 2,776 ratings
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Alexander's Dream
Alexander's Dream it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Madonna in a Fur Coat
Madonna in a Fur Coat 4.37 avg rating — 83,440 ratings
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Chronicles of the Byzantine Empire, The Phoenix Reborn
Chronicles of the Byzantine Empire, The Phoenix Reborn it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Theophano: A Byzantine Tale
Theophano: A Byzantine Tale 4.43 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Los hijos del Grial (Grail Cycle, #1)
Los hijos del Grial (Grail Cycle, #1) 3.45 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Bliss
Bliss 3.98 avg rating — 4,578 ratings
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The Secret History of Iran
The Secret History of Iran 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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