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		<title>Eyüp Sacred Sitesi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join religious pilgrims in Eyüp,located beyond the city walls overlooking the Golden Horn and smartened up in recent years. It’s best known for the religious pilgrimage site of Eyyub-el-Ensar tomb and the Pierre Loti Kahvesi (café) at the top of Eyüb Cemetery. On Fridays and weekends, look out for small boys in white satin costumes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Istiklal Caddesi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Modern Istanbul’s main artery Istiklal Caddesi is the venue forshopping, football fans, demonstrations and thousands of people day and night. This 3km-long pedestrianized street (Independence Avenue) starts at Taksim Meydaniand goes to Tünel, passing (walk or take the Nostaljic Tram) shops, restaurants, churches, cinemas, mosques and fine architecture. A fire in 1870 meant the streets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Byzantine Beauties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve seen plenty of Istanbul’s mosques,now it’s time for its world-famous Byzantine monuments. Once called Byzantium, Emperor Constantine I made the city capital of the Roman Empire in 324AD, renamed it Constantinople, and adopted Christianity. Today’s Istanbul boasts Byzantine-era churches, cisterns and squares. Starting at Edirnekapi, geographically the tour’s highest point, you can walk between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Istanbul with Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1- santralistanbul. As well as the fabulous art exhibitions at this refurbished Ottoman power station (see Modern Istanbul,p 32; bullet 7), the Museum of Energyhas a Play Zone with machines, buttons, and games galore designed for ages 4–14 (although adults like me will love it too). Create magnetic sculptures and even your own electricity, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Heritageu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1- 500. Yil Vakfi Türk Musevileri Müzesi (Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews, or Jewish Museum of Turkey). Snuck up a small alleyway in Karaköy (look out for the ‘museum’ sign), this was once the Zulfaris Synagogue, founded in 1671 and a museum since 2001, hardly visible from the outside. Its excellent information boards and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Istanbul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leave the Ottoman era behind to head to today. Like most visitors you’ll be drawn to the history, but don’t ignore the modern face of Istanbul, with new galleries showcasing local artists, cutting-edge architecture, and a dynamic fashion scene. All the galleries below have opened since 2004, which makes you realize the lack of contemporary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Topkapi Palace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1- Haghia Eirene. In the first courtyard, this 6th-century Byzantine church was never converted into a mosque—although used as a weapons arsenal in Ottoman times – and presumably part of the same complex as Haghia Sophia. Unfortunately you’re only likely to see the inside during rare concerts during the Istanbul Music Festival in summer, during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes to Chapter 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. [Atik Defter 14]. 2. See Alan Duben and Cem Behar ƒstanbul Households: Marriage, Family and Fertility, 1880–1940, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 189–193. 3. Stanford J. Shaw “The Population of Istanbul in the 19th Century,” International Journal of Middle-Eastern Studies, 10, 1979, pp. 265–277. 4. “Esami-i mahallât,&#8230;” 1877. In this listing Kasap ƒlyas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes to Chapter 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Halil ƒnalcık and Donald Quataert An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1914, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 793–795. 2. Ibid., p. 787. 3. Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffmann, and Bruce Masters The Ottoman City between East and West—Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul, Cambridge, Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1999. 4. For some precise instances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes to Chapter 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. For an approximate list of the imams of the Kasap ƒlyas mosque from the middle of the seventeenth to the middle of the nineteenth centuries, see the appendix. 2. See Osman Nuri Ergin Türkiyede ¥ehircili™in Tarihî Inkiœafı (The historical development of urbanism in Turkey), Istanbul, 1936. Also, Musa Çadırcı “Türkiye’de Muhtarlık teœkilâtının kurulması üzerine [...]]]></description>
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