International Dictionary of Historic Places: Southern Europe

Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda

Taylor & Francis, 1995 - History - 804 pages

This five-volume set presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous sites in the world. Entries include location, description, and site details, and a 3,000- to 4,000-word essay that provides a full history of the site and its condition today. An annotated further reading list of books and articles about the site completes each entry. The geographically organized volumes include: * Volume 1: The Americas * [1-884964-00-1] * Volume 2: Northern Europe * [1-884964-01-X] * Volume 3: Southern Europe * [1-884964-02-8] * Volume 4: Middle East & Africa * [1-884964-03-6] * Volume 5: Asia & Oceania * [1-884964-04-4]

Contents

• Aegina: 1
• Agrigento: 5
• Alalakh: 10
• Alcobaça: 14
• Altamira: 19
• Ampurias: 23
• Anazarbus: 27
• Andorra: 30
• Antalya: 36
• Antioch: 40
• Aphrodisias: 44
• Arezzo: 48
• Argos: 52
• Aspendus: 56
• Assisi: 58
• Acropolis: 62
• Agora: 66
• 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
• La Coruña: 163
• Covadonga: 169
• Cumae: 176
• Didyma: 187
• Dubrovnik: 194
• Edirne: 202
• Eleusis: 210
• Epidaurus: 219
• El Escorial: 227
• Famagusta: 238
• Ferrara: 246
• Piazza del Duomo: 257
• Ponte Vecchio: 265
• Gela: 271
• Gibraltar: 280
• Gordium: 288
• Gubbio: 304
• Guimarães: 311
• Hattusa: 318
• Hierapolis: 327
• Blue Mosque: 335
• Kanesh: 353
• Kastoria: 361
• Kayseri: 368
• KestelGoltepe: 376
• KonyaÇatal Hüyük: 384
• León: 391
• Madrid: 399
• Málaga: 406
• Mantua: 416
• Metapontum: 424
• Milan: 431
• Mistra: 440
• Monaco: 449
• Monreale: 455
• 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: 582
• Ponte and Castel SantAngelo: 586
• Vatican: 591
• 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: 749
• Vergina: 753
• Verona: 757
• Vicenza: 765
• Zadar: 769
• Index: 775
• Notes on Contributors: 815

About the author

Trudy Ring, Noelle Watson, Paul Schellinger

Bibliographic information

• Title: International 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
• Editors: Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda
• Edition: illustrated, annotated
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 1995
• ISBN: 1884964028, 9781884964022
• Length: 804 pages
• Subjects: History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); History / Reference; Reference / General; Science / Earth Sciences / Geography; Social Science / Human Geography; Travel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest; Travel / Reference; Travel / United States / General