Author: John Freely
Publisher: Companion Guides
Keywords: companion, guides, marmara, istanbul, guide
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-05-04
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1900639319
ISBN-13: 9781900639316

Istanbul is the only city in the world that stands astride two continents, spreading across from Europe into Asia at the southern end of the Bosphorus, the incomparably beautiful strait linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Turkey. This Companion Guide to Istanbul goes as far as the region around Marmara from the Bosphorus to the Dardanelles, which flows into the Aegean past the historic ruins of Troy on its Asian shore. Revised and updated for this new edition, the book is a guide to the Byzantine and Ottoman monuments and to the many other places of great historic int