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Fig. 29: Frequency of years of siege of Constantinople per decade, 470-1460 CE (calculations
and graph: J. Preiser-Kapeller)
Fig. 30: Major population movements in the Byzantine Empire, ca. 660-880 CE (from: J.
Haldon, The Palgrave Atlas of Byzantine History. Basingstoke 2005; free download from:
https://teamweb.uni-mainz.de/fb07/kartenprojekt/SitePages/Homepage.aspx).
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Fig. 31: Von Thünen´s model of regional land use around an urban centre (from: J.-P. Rodrigue
– Cl. Comtois - B. Slack, The Geography of Transport Systems. 3rd ed., London – New York
2013).
Fig. 32: Potential areas of intensive gardening and eventually also animal husbandry within and
beyond the Theodosian walls of Constantinople (cf. J. Koder, Gemüse in Byzanz. Die
Frischgemüseversorgung Konstantinopels im Licht der Geoponika [Byzantinische
Geschichtsschreiber, Ergänzungsband 3]. Vienna 1993).
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Fig. 33: Provinces of activity of genikoi kommerkiarioi as official “managers” of the provision
of armies and the capital between 660 and 732 CE (from: J. Haldon, The Palgrave Atlas of
Byzantine History. Basingstoke 2005; free download from: https://teamweb.unimainz.de/fb07/kartenprojekt/SitePages/Homepage.aspx).
Fig. 34: The expansion of Venetian commercial activity in the 12th cent. CE: sites mentioned
in the Chrysobulls (charters of privilege) of 1082 (red) and 1198 (green) (map: J. PreiserKapeller)
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Fig. 35: Byzantine successor states after the Fourth Crusade (1204) up to the re-conquest of
Constantinople in 1261 (from: J. Haldon, The Palgrave Atlas of Byzantine History. Basingstoke
2005;
free
download
from:
https://teamweb.unimainz.de/fb07/kartenprojekt/SitePages/Homepage.aspx).
Fig. 36: Commercial networks of the central and eastern Mediterranean, ca. 1200-1400 CE
(from: J. Haldon, The Palgrave Atlas of Byzantine History. Basingstoke 2005; free download
from: https://teamweb.uni-mainz.de/fb07/kartenprojekt/SitePages/Homepage.aspx).