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Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

byKatherine Pangonis

Katherine Pangonis journeys through former capitals around the Mediterranean whose periods of power faded, shifted, or ended. Ruins, streets, archives, coastlines, and local memory recover cities that once linked empires, religions, trade routes, and cultural worlds. The book moves beyond famous surviving centers to ask why some capitals become peripheral and how residents live with monumental pasts. Pangonis treats the Mediterranean as a shared historical space shaped by travel, conquest, migration, and exchange, showing that “lost” cities continue to influence identity and reveal the unstable foundations of political importance.

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2023-09-20

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9781474614122