The Surp Krikor Lusavoriç church stands on the coastal road in the Istanbul neighborhood of Kuzguncuk. Below it lies the waters of the Bosphorus, to the northeast stands the intercontinental ...

A city of many faces, a city of diverse history, Istanbul'"formerly Constantinople'"is a city of legends. The bridge between Asia and Europe, Istanbul is one of the most popular of world travel ...

On this day many years ago, Constantinople was renamed İstanbul. To celebrate, let's look at some other historic city name changes. Once the Ancient Greek city of Byzantium, when the Roman Emperor ...

There are some great things about this city on the straits. The busy shipping traffic up and down the Bosporus for one. The extremely friendly people, and the safe streets as well. When I was there ...

Many artists have immortalized Paris in song, but where's the love for the city's original name, Lutetia? In this game, house musician Jonathan Coulton performs songs about cities in which the current ...

It’s true that the New Testament in the Bible began with Christ and his apostles on the day of Pentecost A.D. 33 and the Bible was in Greek. Important historical facts: Istanbul was originally known ...

Isaac Handley-Miner, a junior at Hamilton College, is spending a semester abroad in Turkey. His blog, “Isaac in Turkey,” is another new addition to The Saratogian’s community travel blogs and will ...

It's Istanbul, not Constantinople, that straddles the Bosporus Strait today. But more than half a millennium ago—on May 29, 1453—it was Constantinople, then the last bastion of the Roman Empire, that ...