Byzantine Beauties
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…
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Istanbul with Kids
1- santralistanbul. As well as the fabulous art exhibitions at this refurbished Ottoman power station (see Modern Istanbul,p 32; bullet…
Jewish Heritageu
1- 500. Yil Vakfi Türk Musevileri Müzesi (Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews, or Jewish Museum of Turkey). Snuck up…
Modern Istanbul
Leave the Ottoman era behind to head to today. Like most visitors you’ll be drawn to the history, but don’t…
Topkapi Palace
1- Haghia Eirene. In the first courtyard, this 6th-century Byzantine church was never converted into a mosque—although used as a…
Notes to Chapter 4
1. [Atik Defter 14]. 2. See Alan Duben and Cem Behar ƒstanbul Households: Marriage, Family and Fertility, 1880–1940, Cambridge, Cambridge…