The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara

John Freely, Anthony Glyn

Companion Guides, 2000 - Travel - 428 pages

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 interest around the Marmara, including Edirne, Bursa and Iznik, ancient Nicaea, as well as the renowned archaeological site of Homeric Troy. It is also an introduction to Turkey itself and to its people and their way of life, which they are more than willing to share with the traveller who takes the time to become acquainted with them. JOHN FREELY has lived and worked on America's east coast, in Britain, and around the Mediterranean, but is long-time Professor of Physics at the University of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, and has been resident for many years in Turkey. His understanding of the land and its people has made him a respected interpreter of Turkey ancient and modern.

Contents

• The Imperial City: 3
• To the Summit of the First Hill: 15
• Haghia Sophia: 28
• Eminonu ferry piers with TopkapT SarayT in background: 29
• TopkapT SarayT: 49
• Haghia Eirene and the Museums: 68
• Around the First Hill: 81
• Sultan Ahmet I Camii the Blue Mosque: 83
• From the First Hill to the Third: 99
• The Beyazidiye 108109: 108
• Around the Third Hill: 114
• The Siileymaniye: 125
• The Siileymaniye the imperial mosque of Suleyman: 131
• To the Summit of the Fourth Hi 11: 134
• Around the Fourth Hill: 144
• The Fifth and Sixth Hills: 156
• SelimlCamii: 159
• Kariye Camii: 166
• The Seventh Hill: 184
• The Land Walls: 202
• The Golden Gate: 205
• Up the Golden Horn: 219
• EyLip and Around the Golden Horn: 229
• Galata and Beyoglu: 241
• Uskudar and the Princes Isles: 258
• The Bosphorus: 269
• Ortakoy Mosque with the First Bosphorus Bridge in: 281
• Istanbul to Edirne: 299
• Edirne to the Dardanelles: 315
• Canakkale to Troy: 330
• The Muradiye Edirne: 335
• Canakkale to Bursa: 345
• Bursa: 358
• Bursa to Istanbul via Iznik: 373
• Interior of Tomb of Prince Mustafa in the Muradiye Bursa: 381
• Glossary: 391
• Food: 397
• Lists of Emperors Kings and Sultans: 404
• Opening Hours: 406
• Select Bibliography: 409
• Index: 412

About the author

John Freely was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 26, 1926. During World War II, he enlisted in the U. S. Navy. He studied physics at Iona College and New York University and did thermonuclear research at the Forrestal Research Center, Princeton University. In 1960, he took a post teaching theoretical physics at Robert College, Istanbul. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Strolling Through Istanbul written with Hilary Sumner-Boyd, Jem Sultan, Storm on Horseback, The Grand Turk, Aladdin's Lamp, Light from the East, and Before Galileo. He died on April 20, 2017 at the age of 90.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara; Volume 1 of Companion guide to Turkey, John Freely; Companion guides
• Authors: John Freely, Anthony Glyn
• Editor: Susan Glyn
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Companion Guides, 2000
• ISBN: 1900639319, 9781900639316
• Length: 428 pages
• Subjects: Travel / Middle East / General