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Basic Info

First Air: December 05, 2013

Rating: ⭐ 7.5/10 (2 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Last Episode

Name: Capital of a New Empire

Season: 1, Episode: 3

Air Date: 2013-12-19

Visiting the great mosques and palaces built by the Ottoman emperors, Simon Sebag Montefiore looks at how Istanbul became the imperial capital and Islam's most powerful city.

Byzantium: A Tale of Three Cities

2013 1 seasons 3 episodes ⭐ 7.5/10 2 votes

Overview

Simon Sebag Montefiore uncovers the three identities of the city some call the Centre of the World: Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul. This one metropolis has been the capital city of three empires - Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman. Each brought its own faiths, Gods and traditions, and each left its mark on the city in its architecture, traditions and in the living faith-communities who still populate this vast modern metropolis of 14 million people.