Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada (1913)
Macdonald, Ivan S, McLean, Robert Craik, Reed, Frederick, Keith, Fraser Sanderson, 1878-, Toutloff, M. B · Toronto : Consolidated Press · leaf 62
orldand which exem-(.Ai.i,,,Kii,s (ii-sr. soiiMN plify the remark- able recuperating powers of her people. One hundred years after the foundation of Con-stantinople there were two hundred and fifty largepublic buildings. The city had few rivals andreadily became the terminus of the chief routes… … for religion. Situated at the meeting of two seasand two continents, like a diamond between sapphiresand emeralds, it developed into a commercial focus.All this in spite of wars, the ravages of ferocioushordes, and internal strife. In 148 B.C. Byzantiumbecame a Roman ally and was exceptionally rich…
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