Istanbul introduction

Istanbul ...

"1907 We stopped at the Pera Palace Hotel paying each frcs 18.75 per day with Cook's tickets and a small supplement of frcs 1.50 each for a room on the 5th floor overlooking the Golden Horn.
Cook introduced us to Eustache Livathinos as dragoman* at frcs 10 per day and he did well for us."

* Interpreter / guide

Byzantium > Constantinople >

John Freely

Strictly, Istanbul
should be İstanbul.
Migration to the city continues ...

A revised and updated edition of the classic guide Strolling Through Istanbul was published in January 2010.

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Population 1975 - 2.5 million
2018 - 15 million

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My first
sight of the City.

I emerged from Istanbul's Sirkeci Railway Station one morning in September 1973, bleary-eyed after spending several days and nights on the long journey fom London via Calais, where I boarded the Direct Orient Express.

I bought Strolling Through Istanbul and followed in the footsteps of Hilary Sumner-Boyd and John Freely on their travels around the city.
As I wandered, I was unaware that over the next twenty years or so Istanbul would undergo something of a transformation ...
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