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Depiction of Istanbul, then known in English as Constantinople, from Young Folks' History of Rome by Charlotte Mary Yonge. Neolithic artifacts, uncovered by archeologists at the beginning of the 21st century, indicate that Istanbul's historic peninsula was settled as far back as the 6th millennium BCE. [1]
While Istanbul's Greek population was exempted from the 1923 population exchange with Greece, changes in tax status and the 1955 anti-Greek pogrom prompted thousands to leave. [216] Following Greek migration to the city for work in the 2010s, the Greek population rose to nearly 3,000 in 2019, still greatly diminished since 1919, when it stood ...
Greek population in Istanbul and percentages of the city population (1844–1997). The Turkish policies, after 1923, led virtually to the elimination of the Greek community. The Greek community of Istanbul numbered 67,550 [14] people in 1955.
13 October: Turkish capital relocated from Istanbul to Ankara. [2] Vatan newspaper established. Istanbul Maltepespor founded. 1924 7 May: Cumhuriyet newspaper established. 15 October: Bakırköy Psychiatric Hospital founded. Airport opened in Yeşilköy. Emek (movie theater) opened. 1925 – 12 July: Apoyevmatini Greek-language newspaper ...
Hagia Irene is a Greek Eastern Orthodox Church located in the outer courtyard of Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. It is one of the few churches in Istanbul that has not been converted into a mosque. Constantine laid out a new square at the centre of old Byzantium, naming it the Augustaeum. The new senate-house (or Curia) was housed in a basilica on ...
The name of Istanbul is thought to be derived from the Greek phrase īs tīmbolī(n) (Greek: εἰς τὴν πόλιν, translit. eis tēn pólin, "to the City"), and it is claimed that it had already spread among the Turkish populace of the Ottoman Empire before the conquest. However, Istanbul only became the official name of the city in 1930 ...
The Greek Minority of Istanbul and Greek-Turkish Relations, 1918–1974. Center for Asia Minor Studies. Arat, Zehra F. Kabasakal (January 2011). Human Rights in Turkey. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-0114-7. Kaliber, Alper (2019).
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America provides substantial support through an annual contribution, known as the logia, and its institutions, including the American-based Greek Orthodox Ladies Philoptochos Society and the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, usually important laymen who make large donations for the upkeep of the ...