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Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place and overspills its boundaries - real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between the East and West, it has served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman Empires.

Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination.

Istanbul, com'è stata chiamata fin dalla conquista ottomana del 1453, ma com'è denominata ufficialmente solo all'indomani della Prima guerra mondiale. "Nèa Ryme", Nuova Roma, secondo il suo nome ufficiale. Costantinopoli, il suo vero nome, da sempre e per sempre. Un nome che evoca immagini mirabili: il sogno dell'Oriente, le lontananze raggiungibili attraverso il Bosforo e l'Anatolia. Le moschee, gli harem, i sufi danzanti, gli aromi dei bazar. Da mezzo millennio l'Europa identifica in quella sola città il prezioso anello di congiunzione fra l'antichità perduta e la modernità.

Caught between two seas and two continents, Istanbul lies at the centre of the most pressing challenges of our time. With environmental decay, rapacious development and tightening authoritarianism straining its social fabric to breaking point, it represents the precipitous moment civilizations around the world are currently facing. In and around its crumbling Byzantine-era fortifications, Alexander Christie-Miller meets people who are experiencing the looming crisis and fighting back, sometimes triumphing despite the odds.

In The Great Tours: Greece and Turkey, from Athens to Istanbul, award-winning Professor John R. Hale of the University of Louisville is your guide to the fabulous civilizations of the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Ottomans, and to the natural wonders and idyllic landscapes that surround them. These 24 richly enjoyable lectures give you the chance to experience these important sites and cultures through the eyes of an expert archaeologist and scholar, whose knowledge and depth of insight go far beyond any ordinary travel narrative.

Inspired by Istanbul Research Institute’s exhibition at Pera Museum titled “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture, we invited artists, authors and musicians to converse with researchers of Byzantine history on how they have engaged with Byzantine history in their works. We explore the unearthly ways of appropriating Byzantine culture in unlikely mediums and genres, showing novel ways of engagement with Byzantine heritage in popular culture.

Jeg er Martin Strecker, og siden 2014 har jeg boet i Istanbul. Kom med mig, når jeg sætter mig ned for at føre en række nærværende "Samtaler Fra Istanbul" med forskellige mennesker, om deres forbindelse til og oplevelser i megabyen.Istanbul er en by af monumental skala, der strækker sig over to kontinenter, adskilt af det mægtige Bosporusstrædet. Gennem podcasten "Samtaler Fra Istanbul” introduceres du til både besøgende, fastboende og andre spændende mennesker, og hører om de oplevelser og det særlige ved Istanbul, som fanger lige netop deres hjerter - og som inspiration ...

Per dieci secoli Costantinopoli è stata l'altra Roma. Poi, in una giornata di primavera del 1453, tutto è cambiato. Roma s'inabissava, nasceva Istanbul. Una città eterna, prodigiosa, inquieta. Un luogo del mondo dove è possibile incrociare le storie di imperatrici belle e crudeli, di sultani folli e saggi, di schiave e avventurieri. Storie piccole e grandissime ritrovate e raccontate da un autore capace, come raramente accade, di fondere in un unico sguardo sapere e meraviglia.

Geçmişin izlerinde gezintiler. Sermet Muhtar Alus’un "İstanbul Kazan Ben Kepçe" kitabı rehberliğinde eski İstanbul’a bugünden bir bakış. (Hazırlayan ve sunanlar: Özlem Altınkaya ve Murat Güvenç)

Ben Erdem Dilbaz, ömrüm yettiği kadarıyla baştan sona Reşad Ekrem Koçu'nun İstanbul Ansiklopedisi'ni kıra döke okuyorum.

İnsanlar, olaylar, mekânlar, gelenekler ve ihtiyaçlar üzerinden şehrin tarihinden sayfalar... (Hazırlayan ve sunanlar: Cem Erciyes, Kansu Şarman)