Molly Mackenzie<\/p>\n
In June 1456 Athens surrendered to the forces of the Sultan Muhammad II. Turkish Athens<\/em> describes how the city – following its incorporation into the fabric of the\u00a0Ottoman Empire – sank gradually over the next four centuries into a state of isolation and obscurity, and follows the fortunes of the citizens of what had become an obscure Turkish\u00a0garrison town, frequently ruled by vicious and corrupt officials.<\/p>\n As political conditions began to alter during the 18th century, Greek fortunes began to revive and the outside world rediscovered the city. Foreign travellers – poets and lords amongst them – began to arrive in ever-increasing numbers, and the unfortunate citizens now suffered from the depredations of the souvenir hunters who pillaged many of the city’s classical treasures. At last, the Turkish garrison on the Acropolis surrendered and in 1833, the city of Athens was restored to Greek hands.<\/p>\n Hardback \u2022 222 mm x 140 mm \u2022 ISBN 9780863721434 \u2022 148 pages \u2022 \u00a312.95<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As political conditions began to alter during the 18th century, Greek fortunes began to revive and the outside world rediscovered the city. Foreign travellers – poets and lords amongst them – began to arrive in ever-increasing numbers, and the unfortunate citizens now suffered from the depredations of the souvenir hunters who pillaged many of the city’s classical treasures. At last, the Turkish garrison on the Acropolis surrendered and in 1833, the city of Athens was restored to Greek hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}