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Byzantium: A Tale of Three Cities

Episode 3

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four

Visiting the great mosques and palaces built by the Ottoman emperors, Simon Sebag Montefiore looks at how Istanbul became the imperial capital and Islam's most powerful city. Show more

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