" Much of the money involved was being held in overseas branches of twelve American banks, so Carter, his cabinet, and staff were constantly on the phone to London, Istanbul, Bonn, and other world capitals to work out the financial details.

One particularly important tablet, currently on display at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, details the terms of a peace settlement reached years after the Battle of Kadesh between the Hittites and the Egyptians under Ramesses II, in 1259 or 1258 BC.

Later, however, the Sultan changed his orders and had Fakhr-al-Din and his family killed on 13 April 1635 in Istanbul, bringing an end to an era in the history of Lebanon, which would not regain its current boundaries until it was proclaimed a mandate state and republic in 1920.

Kreuzberg, a densely populated area in Berlin with a history of hosting guest workers, is dubbed ‘ Kleines Istanbul ’ or ‘ Little Istanbul .’ Reminiscent of the atmosphere in Istanbul, Kreuzberg is full of local Turkish businesses, open Turkish markets, travel agencies offering regular flights to Turkey, and a Turkish language library.

* A brief story of cymbal making history by Istanbul Agop Cymbals.

A native of Istanbul, Erener studied history of music in a university in the city before beginning her musical career working with Turkish music icon Sezen Aksu.

Today its history and beauty make it a popular tourist attraction in Istanbul.

Tablet of one of the earliest recorded treaties in history, Egyptian-Hittite peace treaty | Treaty of Kadesh, at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum.

George Ghica is said to have been a close friend to an Albanian known to history as Kupruli Aga, a famous vizier, who met George while he was building his business in the streets of Istanbul and helped him on to high positions.

Kemal Sunal ( 11 November 1944, Istanbul-3 July 2000, Istanbul ) was a master of comedy in the Turkish history of cinema.

According to Andrew Robinson, a history teacher at Eton, " he played piano duets with the last Emperor of China, told tarot cards for King Fuad of Egypt, narrowly missed being blown up by the Germans in the Pera Palace hotel in Istanbul and twice hit the jackpot on slot machines in Las Vegas ".

The artist has created works on themes such as history, particularly that of Istanbul, and the meeting of Western ideas with Eastern spirituality.

* Most goals scored in Istanbul League history ( 90 Goals in a season, 599 Goals in 8 seasons )

* Istanbul International Film Festival-First held in 1982, this annual film festival is one of the most important intellectual events in Turkey, often causing many cineastes living outside of Istanbul to go there for vacation to see the most precious examples of world film history presented there.

It is an introduction to Istanbul through its history, art, architecture, religion, cuisine, etc., framed as a memoir of Tillinghast's many visits to the Turkish city beginning when he was a graduate student.

The land around this inlet of the Sea of Marmara, has been settled, abandoned and resettled throughout history as army after army passed along the coast to Istanbul.

There are many famous türbes across Istanbul of the various sultans of the Ottoman Empire, as well as of other notables from Turkish history.

One of the most popular traditions in its short history is Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra's annual " New Year Celebration " concerts.

Visit to Henry Ford Museum in Michigan inspired him to create the Rahmi M Koç Museum in Istanbul, which is dedicated to the history of transport, industry and communications exhibiting trains, submarines and autos.

Following his graduation from Pertevniyal High School in Istanbul, he studied art history at Istanbul University.

Even when they are finished, however, the contrast will remain, for Istanbul is the only city in the world that is built upon two continents.

The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and second largest port after Istanbul.

The following year, 478 BC, the Allies sent a force to capture the city of Byzantion ( modern day Istanbul ).

There is also very heavy ferry traffic in the Strait of Istanbul, which crosses between European and Asiatic sides of the city.

The shores of the strait are heavily populated as the city of Istanbul ( with a metropolitan area in excess of 11 million inhabitants ) straddles it.

A cheap way to explore the Bosphorus is offered by the public ferries that traverse the Bosphorus from Eminönü ( ferries dock at the Boğaz İskelesi ) on the historic peninsula of Istanbul to Anadolu Kavağı near the Black Sea, zigzagging between the Rumelian and Anatolian sides of the city.

For the Ottoman and modern city ( after 1453 ), see Istanbul.

The name of the city was officially changed to Istanbul in 1930 following the establishment of modern Turkey.

The Turks called the city Istanbul ( though not officially renamed until 1930 ) and it has remained Turkey's largest and most populous city, although Ankara is now the capital.

The Council of Chalcedon was a church council held from October 8 to November 1, 451 AD, at Chalcedon ( a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor ), on the Asian side of the Bosporus, known in modern times as Istanbul.

( The city is more commonly called Constantinople and is today named Istanbul ).

Istanbul, the largest city of Europe and Turkey, has a population of 11, 372, 613.

The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and a major manufacturing center ; as well as its second largest port after Istanbul.

* Estimation: Istanbul becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Beijing.

* Beijing becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Istanbul.

* Golden Horn, a historic inlet of the Bosphorus dividing the city of Istanbul

Mehmet II's transfers focused on the re-population of the city of Istanbul following its conquest in 1453, transporting Christians, Muslims, and Jews into the new capital from across the empire.

The metropolitan municipality of Istanbul, the most populous city in Turkey, offers year long free vocational programs in a wide range of topics through ISMEK, an umbrella organization formed under the municipality.

The Venetian and Genoese merchants paid visits to Trebizond during the medieval period and sold silk, linen and woolen fabric ; with the Republic of Genoa having an important merchant colony within the city that was similar to Galata near Constantinople ( north across the Golden Horn ) in present-day Istanbul.

This would be the last time a Pope visited the city until the visit of Pope Paul VI to Istanbul in 1967.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

Category: People from Istanbul

Anthemius of Tralles ( c. 474 – before 558 ; ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul in Turkey ) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician.

This is a natural crossroads, the routes from Ankara to İzmir and from Istanbul to Antalya intersect here and Afyon is a popular stopping-place on these journeys.

In the year 1789, Tipu Sultan ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore sent an embassy to the Ottoman capitol of Istanbul, to Sultan Abdul Hamid I requesting urgent assistance against the British East India Company and had proposed an offensive and defensive consortium ; Sultan Abdul Hamid I, informed the ambassadors of the Sultanate of Mysore that the Ottoman Empire was still recuperating from the Austro-Ottoman War and the Russo-Turkish Wars.

An under sea water supply tunnel with a length of, named the Bosphorus Water Tunnel, was constructed in 2012 to transfer water from the Melen Creek in Düzce Province ( to the east of the Bosphorus strait, in northwestern Anatolia ) to the European side of Istanbul, from a distance of.

File: Bosphorus view Topkapi Istanbul 2007. jpg | View of the entrance to the Bosphorus from the Sea of Marmara, as seen from the Topkapı Palace.

Still now, many quarters of Istanbul, like Aksaray, Çarşamba, and others get their names from the town of provenience of an group.

Diocletian spent the spring of 293 traveling with Galerius from Sirmium ( Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia ) to Byzantium ( Istanbul, Turkey ).

A significant 300, 000 strong Greek community in Istanbul and a 100, 000 Muslim one in Western Thrace were excluded from the transfer, with each one supposed to be working as counter-weights to any anti-minority policy that either Turkey or Greece may sought to apply in the future.

The Spanish text is preceded by a note claiming that it was translated from Italian by Mustafa de Aranda, an Aragonese Muslim resident in Istanbul.

* Politiki, from the tradition of the Greeks of Istanbul

Muhammad Kaaban ---- Nakkaş Osman, Istanbul ( 1595 ) ( Ed., note artists began representing the veil-covered face of Muhammad from the 16th century onwards )

* Regular hydrofoil service from Istanbul to Yalova.

She witnessed inoculation being practiced by physicians in Istanbul, and was greatly impressed: she had lost a brother to smallpox and bore facial scars from the disease herself.

The View from Istanbul.

Evliya Çelebi purported that in 1633 Lagari Hasan Çelebi launched in a 7-winged rocket using 50 okka ( 140 lbs ) of gunpowder from Sarayburnu, the point below Topkapı Palace in Istanbul.

Direct flights are available from Berlin, Moscow, Seoul, Beijing, Hohhot, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Osaka, Istanbul ( technical stop at Bishkek ) and Shanghai.