It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Byzantium and the Bosporus by Thomas James Russell
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 330 AD, the Emperor Constantine consecrated the new capital of the eastern Roman Empire on the site of the ancient city of Byzantium. Its later history is well known, yet comparatively little is known about the city before it became Constantinople, and then Istanbul. Although it was just a minor Greek polis located on the northern fringes of Hellenic culture, surrounded by hostile Thracian tribes and denigrated by one ancient wit as the -armpit of Greece, - Byzantium did nevertheless possess one unique advantage--control of the Bosporus strait. This highly strategic waterway links the...
Byzantium and the Bosporus by Thomas James Russell is 309 pages long, and a total of 80,031 words.
This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Byzantium and the Bosporus aloud.
Byzantium and the Bosporus is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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