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Fortifications - A Gazetteer: Mainland Greece, Crete,
Cyprus and the Islands 1204-1797 by Allan Brooks ISBN 978-0-9575846-5-5 This book describes the
fortifications erected in the Greek-speaking
eastern Mediterranean by the Republic of
Venice and those of its citizens who
established their own petty lordships
throughout the Aegean. The earliest of these
fortifications date to the first decades of
the thirteenth century. The last were
erected at the beginning of the eighteenth
century. This survey therefore also
describes the transition in military
technology from the mediaeval castle with
its high walls and square towers to the
advanced engineering embodied in the
bastioned circuits that developed from the
early sixteenth century onwards,
developments in which Venetian military
engineers excelled. It also traces the
process by which Venice progressed from a
purely maritime Republic dependent on
commercial trading concessions in the
Byzantine Empire, to a Mediterranean power
holding substantial overseas territories
both as colonies and as fortified naval
bases.
424p. 98 B/W Illus., 82 plans
and maps
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