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WELCOME TO ISTANBUL
In addition the Istanbul city has several universities, which the reason for it is that many young people pull from the whole country here.
Istanbul is simultaneous not only a cultural, but an important economical center of Turkey. With its over eight million inhabitants Istanbul ranks among the ten largest cities of the world and is larger around a multiple than the capital Ankara. By the direct situation at the black sea and the connection to the Mediterranean Sea,
Istanbul could develop to an important handels and industrial metropolis.
Entrance portal of the istanbul university It becomes completely clear, which comes cultural meaning to Istanbul for centuries.
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BOATS AND BOATMEN IN OLD ISTANBUL
Before the arrival of paddle steamers in Istanbul, ferry services on the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus were provided by the long narrow rowing
boats of various types known as kayik. These graceful swift boats and their boatmen were a characteristic part of life in Istanbul. The largest and most magnificent of all these vessels were the royal barges used by the sultans and members of their families...
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ISTANBUL MAGIC
Istanbul lies at the mouth of the Bosphorus, a strait which formed thousands of years ago when the land between the Black and Marmara seas split apart. Since it was founded the city has possessed a unique, even magical, attraction. This is true today, as travellers from all over the world attest, and was so in the past. Who were the first to be drawn by this irresistible magic? The history books tell us that in the 7th century ...
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HAGIA SOPHIA - ISTANBUL
From the time it was built Haghia Sophia, the Church of Divine Wisdom, has astonished and entranced all who beheld it, with its great dome symbolising unattainable infinity. Haghia Sophia was used as a church for 916 years and as a mosque for 481, so serving as a place of worship for nearly one and a half millennia. When it was first built it was known as the Megale Ekklesia or Great Church....
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HEART OF ISTANBUL - SULTANAHMET
The gulls that have wheeled over beautiful world-city Istanbul for centuries have a special fondness for the district of Sultanhahmet in the heart of the Historic Peninsula. Flapping their grey wings day and night, they swoop between the domes and minarets emitting petulant cries. Built by Sultan Ahmed I, the splendid six-minareted
mosque for which the district and square are named is flanked on one side by ....
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WHERE LIFE NEVER STANDS STILL ISTIKLAL CADDESI
The street musicians are playing one of my favorite songs. Here I am on Istiklal Caddesi at the end of a hard day. Who knows how many acquaintances I’ll run into, how many people’s eyes will meet mine, how many details I’ll miss on the way up to the square from the Tünel? I should visit to St. Antoine’s Church, or take in a film. I should look for some new additions to my book collection at the Aynali Pasaj, or have a ....
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GALATA - ISTANBUL
There are cities which are eternal, bewitching generation after generation with their beauty and splendour, their names turning up again and again in the epic story of mankind. And there are districts as famous as the cities of which they are a part. However small they might be, they are stages where history has strutted for long centuries. Galata is such a place. Wherever you look in Istanbul, capital to two empires, whichever page of history ...
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AN ISTANBUL FIXTURE REBORN - THE GOLDEN HORN
The Golden Horn is an 18th century dream… Excursions to Sadabad, the splendor of the Tulip Era, gardens and palaces most of which were destroyed by fire and are known to us only from old engravings and books. On every corner of the deeply spiritual quarter of Eyüp stands türbe or mosque awash in prayer. A sacred silence rises from the cypress-dotted cemeteries as Pierre Loti’s platonic love calls out from the hills to ...
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