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Istanbul was the 2010 European Capital of Culture. The city has surpassed London and Dubai to become the most visited city in the world, with more than 20 million foreign visitors in 2023. [14] In 2024, Euromonitor International ranked Istanbul as the second most visited city in the world, welcoming 23 million visitors. [15]
The city, known alternatively in Ottoman Turkish as Ḳosṭanṭīnīye (قسطنطينيه after the Arabic form al-Qusṭanṭīniyyah القسطنطينية) or Istanbul, while its Christian minorities continued to call it Constantinople, as did people writing in French, English, and other European languages, was the capital of the Ottoman ...
Istanbul, Turkey's economic and cultural capital, is the largest city with a population of 15.84 million in its metropolitan area as of 2021. Ankara, the capital of Turkey and its second-largest city, has a population of 5.7 million in its metropolitan area as of 2021.
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) The international name Constantinople remains in use until Turkey adapts the Latin alphabet (1928)
İstanbul originally was not used for the entire city, instead the name referred to the core of Istanbul—the walled city. [18] İstanbul was the common name for the city in normal speech in Turkish even before the conquest of 1453, [citation needed] but in official use by the Ottoman authorities other names, such as Kostantiniyye, were ...
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.
Istanbul is known as the City on the Seven Hills (Turkish: Yedi tepeli şehir). The city has inherited this denomination from Byzantine Constantinople which – consciously following [citation needed] the model of Rome – was built on seven hills too.
Istanbul: Memories and the City (İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir) is a largely autobiographical memoir by Orhan Pamuk that is deeply melancholic. It talks about the vast cultural change that has rocked Turkey – the unending battle between the modern and the receding past.