City of empires : Ottoman and British Famagusta /

Other Authors: Walsh, Michael J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Into the silent centuries / Michael J.K. Walsh
  • Famagusta in early Ottoman sources / Vera Costantini
  • The re-enactment of the Siege of Famagusta at the Ottoman Imperial Circumcision Festival of 1582 : a performance that never was? / Tamas Kiss
  • Gascoigne's device for a masque : an anglicized "true report" of the Siege of Famagusta / William Spates
  • Corsair tactics and lofty ideals : the 1607 Tuscan raid on Cyprus / Marios Hadjianastasis
  • Imports from Istanbul : Ottoman exiles to Famagusta and their tombs / Unver Rustem
  • The transformation of Famagusta after the Siege in 1571 / Ege Uluca Tumer
  • Charles Diehl and Famagusta : from the discovery of the city to the Theatre Critic / Lucie Bonato
  • Famagusta during the Great War : from backwater to bustling / Andrekos Varnava
  • Detainees in British Famagusta : refugees and ships / Danny Goldman
  • Bertram John Weston and the Emergency in Famagusta (1955-1959) / Jan Asmussen
  • Recent preservation initiatives for the fortifications of Famagusta / Hulya Yuceer
  • Famagusta, Cyprus : a future outside the World Heritage Club / Carlos Jaramillo
  • "A silent witness" : seismic activity and the structural integrity of Saint Nicholas' Cathedral, Famagusta, Cyprus : some recent investigations / Zehra Cagnan and Michael J.K. Walsh
  • The conservation of a wall painting representing the Forty Martyrs of Sebasteon the south wall of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Famagusta / Werner Matthias Schmid.