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Constantinople during World War I. Occupation of Istanbul by Allied forces (13 November 1918 – 4 October 1923) Modern Istanbul (1923–present) Turkish forces enter the city in a ceremony which marks the 'Liberation Day of Istanbul' (6 October 1923) The capital is moved from Istanbul to Ankara (1923)
Istanbul experienced especially rapid growth during the second half of the 20th century, with its population increasing tenfold between 1950 and 2000. [188] This growth was fueled by internal and international migration. Istanbul's foreign population with a residence permit increased dramatically, from 43,000 in 2007 [189] to 856,377 in 2019 ...
The geographical regions of Turkey comprise seven regions (Turkish: bölge), which were originally defined at the country's First Geography Congress in 1941. [1] The regions are subdivided into 31 sections (Turkish: bölüm), which are further divided into numerous areas (Turkish: yöre), as defined by microclimates and bounded by local geographic formations.
Isolated from one another because of steep valleys, [3] the Black Sea region includes 850 [19] plant taxa of which 116 [19] is endemic to the area, and of which 12 are endangered [3] and 19 [20] vulnerable. Hazelnut is a native species [3] for this region, which covers 70 and 82% [12] of the world's production and exports respectively.
Map of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), designed in 1422 by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti. This is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only surviving map that predates the Turkish conquest of 1453. The Bosporus is visible along the right-hand side of the map, wrapping vertically around the historic city.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
This is a list of districts of Istanbul in Turkey (Turkish: İstanbul'un ilçeleri) as of 31 December 2023. [1] The number of the districts increased from 32 to 39 shortly before the 2009 local elections .
The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge on the Dardanelles strait, connecting Europe and Asia, is the longest suspension bridge in the world. [3]The Straits have had major maritime strategic importance since at least the Mycenaean period, and the narrow crossings between Asia and Europe have provided migration and invasion routes (for Persians, Galatians, and Turks, for example) for even longer.