Greeks from Megara founded the city centuries before Christ…then it became the capital of the Roman Empire and Haghia Sofia the most sacred temple of Christianity was founded in the 6th century.
Leading_Candle_4611 on
Actual Urban area of İstanbul sprawls over the purple area. Districts of Gebze, Darıca, Çayırova and even Dilovası are more connected to İstanbul rather than downtown İzmit (Kocaeli) even though they are official departments of Kocaeli province.
srmndeep on
Why the one on the Asian side is not called the City of Üsküdar ?
TFCNU on
Istanbul was partly Constantinople, mostly Istanbul not Constantinople.
826284S on
Fun fact: Chalcedon (Kadikoy) is older than Byzantion
OldAcanthocephala468 on
Didn’t the gold horn was part of Constantinople too? Like the galatas colony
Throwawayhair66392 on
🇬🇷
Old-Cicada-4507 on
There still exist European ppl who call it Constantinople, in the XXI century…smh
Ned_Shimmelfinney on
That’s no one’s business but The Turks.
Public_Research2690 on
That’s why Istanbul is NOT the biggest city of Europe.
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Greeks from Megara founded the city centuries before Christ…then it became the capital of the Roman Empire and Haghia Sofia the most sacred temple of Christianity was founded in the 6th century.
Actual Urban area of İstanbul sprawls over the purple area. Districts of Gebze, Darıca, Çayırova and even Dilovası are more connected to İstanbul rather than downtown İzmit (Kocaeli) even though they are official departments of Kocaeli province.
Why the one on the Asian side is not called the City of Üsküdar ?
Istanbul was partly Constantinople, mostly Istanbul not Constantinople.
Fun fact: Chalcedon (Kadikoy) is older than Byzantion
Didn’t the gold horn was part of Constantinople too? Like the galatas colony
🇬🇷
There still exist European ppl who call it Constantinople, in the XXI century…smh
That’s no one’s business but The Turks.
That’s why Istanbul is NOT the biggest city of Europe.
The old Constantinople is now the [Fatih](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatih) district of Istanbul