İSTANBUL

Istanbul

• Province & Greater City -
  From top to bottom clockwise: 1) Historical Peninsula; 2) The Maiden's Tower; 3) A tram on Istiklal Caddesi; 4) Levent business centers; 5) Ortaköy Mosque and 15th of July Martyrs Bridge; 6) Hagia Sophia.
  From top to bottom clockwise: 1) Historical Peninsula; 2) The Maiden's Tower; 3) A tram on Istiklal Caddesi; 4) Levent business centers; 5) Ortaköy Mosque and 15th of July Martyrs Bridge; 6) Hagia Sophia.

Website: Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, T.C. Istanbul Governorship
Istanbul, Turkey Situated in the city and one of the country's 81 provinces. It is the most populous, economic, historical and socio-cultural most important city of the country. [2] [3] [4] The city ranks 34th in the world in terms of economic magnitude, the first in Europe according to the order of municipal boundaries, and the sixth after Lagos in the world. [5] [6]

Istanbul northwest of Turkey, along the Sea of ​​Marmara and the Bosphorus, the Golden Horn is built to be surrounded. Istanbul is a continental city, and the European side is called the European side or the Rumeli side, and the Asian side is called the Anatolian side or the Asian side. Historically, the western border of Istanbul, which was founded on a peninsula on which the Marmara Sea, Bosphorus and Golden Horn were built on three sides for the first time, constituted the Istanbul Walls. In the course of development and growth, there are 39 cities in the city, which has been enlarged four times by constructing the walls further westward each time. There are a total of 40 municipalities in the boundaries of the metropolitan municipality.

Istanbul, one of the oldest cities in the world, was the capital of the Roman Empire between 330-395, the Byzantine Empire between 395-1204 and 1261-1453, the Latin Empire between 1204-1261 and the Ottoman Empire between 1453-1922. 8] In addition, Istanbul was the center of Islam until 1924, when Khilafat was removed from 1517, when it passed through the Ottoman Empire.