دانلود کتاب The Buildings of Byzantium

London: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1977. — ۴۸ p.Byzantium, the city founded by the Greek. Byzaz, in the seventh century B.C.. stood on a peninsula of land at the entrance to the Bosphorus and was at the crossroads of eastern and western civilizations. By the third century A.D.. it had developed into a typical Roman city. It was therefore the
ideal place for Constantine the Great to develop as his new capital, when he became the ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire.