The Liquid Continent, A Mediterranean Trilogy: Volume III Istanbul (Armchair Traveller)
Books / Hardcover
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ISBN: 1905791585 / Publisher: Haus Publishing, March 2008
captivating look at modern and yet traditional city
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Under the Ottomans, who ruled the eastern Mediterranean for 500 years, cosmopolitan life in Istanbul took a vigorous and productive form, creating a web of connection and identity that is conspicuously absent in the modern era. This title looks into the social life of a city that was once the capital of a vast and ethnically-complex empire.
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