Free Download Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries (Brill's Studies in Maritime History) edited by Michael J. K. Walsh
English | April 11, 2019 | ISBN: 9004364315 | True PDF | 320 pages | 12.9 MB
Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries presents a collection of scholarly studies spanning the thousand year history of the port of Famagusta in Cyprus. This historic harbour city was at the heart of the Crusading Lusignan dynasty, a possession of both Genoa and Venice during the Renaissance, a port of the Ottoman Empire for three centuries, and in time, a strategic naval and intelligence node for the British Empire. It is a maritime space made famous by the realities of its extraordinary importance and influence, followed by its calamitous demise.