[Original] The Walls of Jedikoule in the city of Istanbul, Turkey [end] Turkey's most populous city and its cultural and economic center, Istanbul is the world's only metropolis situated on two continents. Istanbul extends on both the European (Thrace) and on the Asian (Anatolia) side of the Bosphorus. As of the 2000 census, it is the second largest city in Europe and was previously known as Constantinople, capital of Byzantium. |