Alexandria, real and imagined /
Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - an...
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London :
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group,
2016
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| Edice: | Publications for the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London ;
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