The Ionian coast of Anatolia was the home to some of the most important city-states of Ancient Greece. Ephesus was the grandest of them all. Its origins are traced to 1600 BC. It was the home [...]
Istanbul is partly in Europe and partly in Asia. The old, European part of the city is surrounded by water on three sides: Golden Horn, where two creeks move out into the sea, the southern end [...]
When the Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476AD, Constantinople became the capital of the Christian Roman Empire - Byzantine Empire. it lasted for the 1100 years until the Ottoman Turks [...]