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| Date of page creation | 21:27, 1 November 2013 |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | This is an ancient city of many names. To the Greeks it was Byzantium (its original name). To the Romans it was Constantinople. To the Northmen who served as Hired Axes it was Miklagard. And to the Turks who now possess it, it is Istanbul. It was built on the isthmus between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean; legend has it that its first settlers saw a previous settlement nearby and were amazed at how greatly they missed the boat. Istanbul does indeed have an ideal site being at the crossroads of several travel routes; indeed in some ways it is too ideal: every prince and his cousin wanted this city and it has endured seventeen sieges in it's history. Fortunately it's fortifications were a wonder of Medieval military architecture being something of a man-made cliff of insanity, so the city has endured only two sacks; the Fourth Crusade, and the Ottoman Conquest in 1453. This city is also proverbial for its Gambit Pileups and is the only city in the world to actually be an adjective for such things, as it is after all, very "byzantine" . This tradition continued into modern times and as late as World War II (and no doubt later) it was an important espionage battleground. It is nevertheless the home of some 13.6 million people, being the third-largest majority-Muslim metropolitan area in the world (after Cairo). |
