Eight Thousand Years of Maltese Maritime History Atauz Ayse Devrim
Eight Thousand Years of Maltese Maritime History Atauz Ayse Devrim For millennia, Malta has always been considered a site of strategic importance. John ("Knights of Malta"), the advent of the…
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Eight Thousand Years of Maltese Maritime History Atauz Ayse Devrim
For millennia, Malta has always been considered a site of strategic importance. John ("Knights of Malta"), the advent of the Napoleonic Wars, and even World Wars I and II, the Maltese islands have served as re-provisioning stations, military bases, and refuges for pirates and privateers.Building on her systematic underwater archaeological survey of the Maltese archipelago, Ayse Atauz presents a sweeping, groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to maritime history in the Mediterranean. From the arrival of the Phoenicians through rule under Carthage, Rome, Sicilian Arabs, Normans, and Genovese, to the Order of St.
Offering a general overview of essential facts, including geographical and oceanographic factors that would have affected the navigation of historic ships, major relevant historical texts and documents, the logistical possibilities of ancient ship design, a detailed study of