is Turkey's largest city it's the hottub take his business and cultural life

the country's largest port

and home to more than 15 million people the

by son Tim had a superb location on the bus for us

the broad strike that connects the back seat with the Sea of Marmara and ahem

Roman Emperor Constantine

first chose my son Tim as his new imperial capital

he ordered his bill gusty construct a great city

libeled lots spacious public squares underground

palaces it was designated

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and named after him constantinople two centuries later

in 537 eighty Emperor Justinian the great

inaugurated his wages building project the church of the holy wisdom

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said on a hill overlooking the Bosphorus right where the pagan temple by Santa

nudged

great churches largest most magnificent building in the entire world

the by sometime Church of the Holy Saviour

in colour

built in the 11th century very different a small

beautifully decorated church that was built Center a monastic complex

located near the city's massive lawn bowls it boasts the finest by sometime

mistakes in the entire region

the frescoes in the Power Commission chapel

with the product can you buy some time of movement

which parallel Italian Renaissance the church

is now a museum

mantequilla severe was the city's hippodrome

a place for public games tournaments chariot races

and special events DeLonghi Spain Apple century dividing line

a quick relics past Connor Gyptian granite

open this work by ship from the Nile the bronze certain time comment

one-stop do a second half the column a constant eye

which by some ten times as had

dream homes

the army's have certain moments the second conquered the Imperial City

in 1453 putting an end to the bank sometime

and time

the Ottoman Sultans beautify their new capital constructing

great buildings that rivaled those but I sometimes

up the loss

built by Sultan Ahmed first 1660

was sit next to her yes appear so that people compare the two artistic

achievements

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the Sultan &

his place imperial mosques many other buildings to serve the people

downturns

health clinic this depiction per a Turkish bath

Theological Seminary living quarters

shops and storms

just got the palace known as this that idea

to europeans was the home the imperial family and the center

the Empire's government

constructed between 1465 and 1478

it was expanded and modified dozens of times

for the next four centuries it is a beautiful livable

place gardens hillians sumptuous

world chambers many of them decorated with priceless

to just

the most popular section top puppet is the imperial power and

legendary for its luxury romance and intrigue

Mozart voters famous opera

the abduction from the seraglio near about it and many other artists have let

their imaginations fly

with visions of course when I'm there

located on major trade with its

Istanbul has always been an important commercial city

the Grand Bazaar with its four thousand shops

is among the world's most fascinating markets its truly

small city itself

the

nearby on the goldman is the Egyptian allspice beside

known in Ottoman times as the place to buy exotic spices and herbs to be used

in cooking

boys traditional medicines climbing a hill overlooking the city

is a silly money all must of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent

the largest techies imperial mosques built for the Emprise greater Sultan

it is the master of mass around take his greatest

architect