Image of Istanbul
The modern Istanbul’s layout and architecture show the influences of both the Roman-Byzantine era when it became Constantinople, the world’s first Christian capital, as well as that of the conquering Ottoman Turks, from 1453, when it became the seat of the world’s largest Muslim Empire. Today Istanbul is the economic capital of Turkey.
Sea of Marmara
Sea of Marmara has very narrow inlets (the Bosphorus, which connects it to the Black Sea in the northeast) and outlets (the Dardanelles, which connect it to the Aegean Sea in the west). This means that the slow circulation of the water would allow significant concentration to occur, since dispersal to the Aegean would take so long. (NASA, June 2003).
Aegean Sea
Black Sea
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