English
Part of the fascination that subjugates visiting Istanbul invariably comes from the transformations throughout its rich history. On the primitive Zoni or Byzantium a new Rome was built in 330 by Emperor Constantine´s decision on the eastern end of the Roman Empire, thus appearing on the world map a city of prodigious qualities called Constantinople that was the capital of the Empire on 395 , the year the division thereof into two parts after the death of Theodosius.
The eastern part led to the Byzantine Empire, a prolongation of the Roman Empire that extended into a world of Greek cultural environment throughout the Middle Ages, being its capital, Constantinople, one of the most dazzling qualified tendentious and barbaric cities of the dark millennium. Its legendary fall at the hands of the Turks in 1453 has not only been used for centuries as a chronological milestone marking the transition to a new era. It also sparked a new transformation in the city, which was renamed Istanbul, capital of the powerful Ottoman Empire until shortly after the end of the first world war.
Since then, Istanbul is not Turkey´s political capital but has remained long the most important and populated city in an era marked by a political regime defined by its Republican and secular character.
This however might not remain the same if the the Turkish prime minister and former mayor of Istanbul, Tayyip Erdogan Reccep wins the elections as one of the great strengths of his electoral program is the division of the city in two different cities on each continent, by creating in less than twelve years of a narrow artificial channel would be called the Channel of Istanbul.
The project has received qualifiers that cover the entire spectrum of opinions from the visionary to the insane, it seems to depend on the victory of Erdogan´s party,
Both would be connected through a transport system whose essential elements would be a new bridge on the Bosphorus, and a tunnel and a subway line beneath the sea.
It is a vibrant symbol of the times both the city and the Republic of Turkey live in, a country called to become key players in the new political and economic balance in the region. See for yourself by renting apartments in Istanbul.
Paul Oilzum
It is a vibrant symbol of the times both the city and the Republic of Turkey are living, see it for yourself by renting apartments in Istanbul
Translated by: Marc
