The unique city of Istanbul in the north-west of Turkey is, amazingly, the only city in the world straddling two continents. In fact, not only does it link Europe and Asia, it also fuses different worlds — the Occident and the Orient, the Islamic and non-Islamic.
Turkish history is replete with many different cultures. First, the Hittites settled here, then the Greeks, followed by the Romans. When Christianity spread, it found a solid base here, creating the empire of Byzantium. And finally, the Ottomans invaded and turned the country into an Islamic nation.
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