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Baklava, probably developed in the imperial kitchens of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul Republic Day celebrations on the Bosporus in Istanbul Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Art in Istanbul Istanbul in art / Paintings of Istanbul; Public art in Istanbul Akdeniz; The Feeler
Inland, north of Taksim Square is the Istanbul Central Business District, a set of corridors lined with office buildings, residential towers, shopping centers, and university campuses, and over 2,000,000 m 2 (22,000,000 sq ft) of class-A office space in total. Maslak, Levent, and Bomonti are important nodes within the CBD. [137] [138]
The map is a portolan chart with compass roses and a windrose network for navigation, rather than lines of longitude and latitude. It contains extensive notes primarily in Ottoman Turkish. The northwestern coast combines features of Central America and Cuba into a single body of land.
Situated on the border between South and Central America, the park consists of a wide range of habitats including sandy and rocky coastlines, mangroves, swamps, upland and lowland tropical forests. Two Indian tribes, the Chocó and the Kuna live in the property. [8] Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve † La Mosquitia, Honduras
The gaps in the archipelago of Central America filled in with material eroded off North America and South America, plus new land created by continued volcanism. By three million years ago, the continents of North America and South America were linked by the Isthmus of Panama, thereby forming the single landmass of the Americas. [60]
Central America – Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, and Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina (legally part of Colombia, but off the coast of Central America.) Consists mainly of former territories of the Federal Republic of Central America.
4.1 Location map templates. 4.2 Creating new map definitions. Toggle the table of contents. Module: Location map/data/Turkey Istanbul. 15 languages.
The border between North America and South America is at some point on the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colombia–Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent (see Darién Gap). Virtually all atlases list Panama as a state falling entirely within North America and/or Central America. [116] [117]