Istanbul Day Trips

Exploring Istsanbul Ironically, Istanbul’s Asian side is filled with sprawling, Western-style suburbs, and its European side is a maze of mosques, opulent...

Exciting Antique Buildings waiting for visitors on the Lycian Way

There are as many beauty as the breathtaking scenery from the ancient cities that will excite you on the Lycian Way starting...

Trabzon – Travel Turkey, About Trabzon, History Trabzon, What is Trabzon famous for :)

Trabzon.. A city with an open air museum that carries the traces of thousands of years of history spreading out to the...

Aegean Turkey

Truva (Troy) Odun İskelesi (Alexandria Troas) Behramkale (Assos) Bergama (Pergamum or Pergamon) Akhisar (Thyatira) Manisa (Magnesia-ad-Sipyplus) Sart Köy (Sardis) Alaşehir (Philadelphia) Laodikya...

Princes’ Islands – Adalar

The Princes’ Islands include Kınalı (Prote), Burgaz, (Antigone), Kaşık (Pitta, Spoon), Heybeli (Khalke), Büyük (Prinkipo), Yassı (Plati), Sedef (Terebnthos), tavşan (Nyandros), and...

Jewish Sites in Istanbul

The Jewish presence in İstanbul dated back at least to the Byzantine period when there was a synagogue in Balat on the...

ISTANBUL, St. Irene, St. Sophia, other Christian Sites,(Touristic Places in Istanbul)

For anyone interested in Byzantine church history and church architecture, İstanbul is unequaled as the place to study and appreciate it. At...

İSTANBUL – BYZANTIUM, CONTANTINOPLE

İstanbul holds an unserpassed concentration of places of religious interest and importance. From sites touched by mythology, to the world’s masterpieces of...

ÜSKÜDAR – CRYSOPOLIS, SCUTARI

Once the Asiatic port for all traffic, both commercial and military, between Istanbul and the far reaches of Asia, the interest religiously...

Kadıköy – Chalcedon

Kadıköy, on the Asiatic shore and across the Bosphorus from what was once Byzantium and is now European İstanbul, claims in legend...

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