About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 104. Chapters: Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Istanbul, Mecca, Medina, Muhammad, Damascus steel, Chalcedon, Merv, Black Stone, 1987 Mecca incident, Names of Istanbul, Ac k Radyo, Abraj Al Bait Towers, Baghdad Zoo, Incidents during the Hajj, Green Zone, Istanbul Protocol, Al-Wahda SC Damascus, Damascus Protocol, Stoning of the Devil, Palestine Hotel, Baghdad Governorate, Bosporus Germans, Central Bank of Iraq, Al-Safa and Al-Marwah, Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport, Umm al-Qura University, Al-Wehda Club, Umrah, Al-Jaish SC Damascus, Al-Majd SC Damascus, Damask, Islamic University of Madinah, Damascus terrorist attacks, Mount Arafat, Shorja, Baghdad Airport Road, 2006 Mecca hostel collapse, Damascening, Baghdad Hotel, Rebecca Came Back From Mecca, Camp War Eagle, Ishtar Sheraton Hotel, Battle of Medina, Green Zone Cafe, Miqat, Historic Areas of Istanbul, Rusafa, Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security, Bani Shaiba, About Baghdad, Shrugi. Excerpt: Istanbul (Turkish: ), historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople (see names of Istanbul for further information), is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province (municipality) had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe (if its Asian half is counted) after London and Moscow. The city in its administrative limits had 8.8 million residents counted in the latest Turkish census from 2000. Istanbul is a megacity, as well as the cultural, economic, and financial centre of Turkey. It is located on the Bosphorus Strait and encompasses the natural harbour known as the Golden Horn, in the northwest of the country. It extends both on the European (Thrace) and on the Asian (Anatolia) sides of the Bosphorus, and is thereby the only metropolis in the world that is situa...
