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This book examines the architecture and urbanism in the Venetian colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean and how their built environments express the close cultural ties with both Venice and Byzantium. Using the island of Crete and its capital city, Candia (modern Herakleion) as a case study, Maria Georgopoulou exposes the dynamic relationship that existed between colonizer and colony. Georgopoulou demonstrates how the Venetian colonists manipulated Crete's past history in order to support and leg
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Maria Georgopoulou
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521184342
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, History, Travel
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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