Istanbul (pronounced [ʔistˤɑmbu: l], Turkic-modern: İstanbul; and Ottoman Turkish: Istanbul [istambul]), and historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople and Astana and Aslambol; [2] is the largest city in Turkey and the second largest city in the world in terms of population, where inhabited by 13.4 million people. [3] Istanbul is also a "major city", and seen as the center of Turkey's cultural, economic and financial. Covering an area of the city 39 districts constitute the province of Istanbul. [4] Istanbul is located on the Bosphorus Strait and encircle the natural harbor known as the "Golden Horn" (in Turkish: Haliç or Altın Boynuz) located in the northwest of the country. The city stretches along the European side of the Bosphorus Strait, known as "Thrace", and the Asian side or "Anatolia", and therefore the only city in the world located on two continents. This was the capital city for a number of states and empires throughout its long history, was the capital of the empire of Romania (330-395), the Byzantine Empire (since 395 years until 1204 and then from 1261 until the year 1453), the Latin Empire (1204-1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453-1922). [5] In most of these stages, surrounded by the city an aura of holiness, as it had a religious significance large when the population and the population of the neighboring countries, was an important city for Christians after he converted to the Byzantine Empire, the Christian religion, before it turns to become the capital of the caliphate Islamic in 1517 until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in 1924 [6] was chosen Istanbul as the capital of a common European culture for the year 2010, and was historic landmarks have been added before that, in 1985, to the list of World Heritage Sites of UNESCO. [7]
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