- Istanbul has been the capital of various empires for 2500 years, though it is no longer the capital of Turkey. It is Turkey's largest city with over 14 million people. - Istanbul spans both Asia and Europe and has been a crossroads for different cultures, societies, and religions for centuries. It is home to people of many faiths who freely practice their religions. - As a cosmopolitan city, Istanbul unites diverse lifestyles, cultures, faiths, languages, foods, values, and traditions in a generally peaceful atmosphere. It highlights both its rich past and its future as a multicultural center.

3. 
İstanbul was the capital of various empires for
about 2500 years. Today it is not the capital but it
is the most important city of Turkey and one of the
biggest cities of the world with different nations and
14 million population. İstanbul, one of the oldest
cities of the world, was the capital of Roman
Empire between 330 – 395, of Byzantine Empire
between 395 - 1204 , of Latin Empire between
1204 – 1261, of late Byzantine Empire between
1261 – 1453 and finally of Ottoman Empire
between 1453 – 1922.

4. 
İstanbul is the unique city of which lands are both on Asia, the
east side and on Europe, the west side.

5.  İstanbul
was the European Capital of
Culture in 2010. The historical areas of
İstanbul were added to the List of
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1985.

6. a cosmopolitan city, İstanbul has been
hosting different cultures, societies and
people on its magnificent landscape.
 As

7.  İstanbul
unites different lifestyles, cultures,
religions, languages, cuisines, values and
traditions.

8.  İstanbul
is as important as the holy religions city
of Jerusalem because it has also had a peaceful
atmosphere for all religions. People have been
performing their religious exercises freely.

9.  You
can see churches, synagogues and
mosques in the same neighbourhood.

10. İstanbul different sects of
 Christians such as Orthodox, Catholic,
Protestant, Assyrian,
 Jewish such as Sephardic, Ashkenaz,
Karaites,
 Islam
 Jesuits and many others have their own
temples, schools, graveyards.
 In

11.  İstanbul
is a cultural city of different nations
such as Turk, Kurd, Circassian, Greek,
Armenian, Jew.

12. Sahakyan Nunyan Armenian School
 There
Fener Greek High School
are 22 schools of different ethnical
minorities. 16 of these schools belong to
Armenian, 5 of them belong to Greek and 1 of
them belongs to Jew. 4200 students study in
these schools.

13. İstanbul more than 26.000 foreign
students from 147 different countries study
at universities. This makes İstanbul still a
multicultural city.
 In

14.  İstanbul
combines past and future beside
Bosphorus. It has a rich past and will have
a rich, multicultural and colourful future.

15. Historical Sights of İstanbul
Topkapı Palace
The house of Ottoman Empire

16. Dolmabahçe Palace

17. Çırağan Palace

18. Castles

19. Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia was
used as a church
for 916 years, as a
mosque for 481
years and has
been used as a
museum since
1935. It is a very
important
architectural
building.

20. Obelisk of Theodosius
It had been built
in front of a
temple in
B.C.1500 in
Eygpt and
brought to
İstanbul in 390.

21. Covered Bazaar
It was built in 1481 to endow for Hagia Sophia by
Mehmed the Conqueror.

22. Bozdoğan Water Channels
These channels are thought to have been built to bring water to the city in the
period of Roman Empire by Hadrianus(117-138)

23. The Modern Face of İstanbul

26. İstanbul is one of the major cities of the world with different nations, cultures and
religions having a common dream of living peacefully.