Districts of Istanbul - Uskudar, Kad Koy, Beyo Lu, Princes' Islands, Be Ikta, Silivri, Fatih, I Li, Sar Yer, Bak Rkoy, Eyup, Beykoz (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Uskudar, Kad koy, Beyo lu, Princes' Islands, Be ikta, Silivri, Fatih, i li, Sar yer, Bak rkoy, Eyup, Beykoz, Zeytinburnu, Kartal, Maltepe, Istanbul, ile, Bahcelievler, Kucukcekmece, Avc lar, Gaziosmanpa a, Umraniye, Catalca, Ata ehir, Gungoren, Ba c lar, Tuzla, Buyukcekmece, Pendik, Ka thane, Sultangazi, Bayrampa a, Esenler, Stamboul, Sultanbeyli, Esenyurt, Arnavutkoy, Greater Istanbul. Excerpt: Uskudar (Turkish pronunciation: ) is a large and densely populated municipality (belediye ) of Istanbul, Turkey, on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus. It is bordered on the north by Beykoz, on the east by Umraniye, on the southeast by Ata ehir, on the south by Kad koy, and on the west by the Bosphorus, with the areas of Be ikta, Beyo lu, and Eminonu on the opposite shore. It is home to about half a million people. Uskudar is also the usual name for the historic center of the municipality. Scutari.Uskudar (ancient Greek Chrysopolis ( ), medieval Scutari(on) ( )) was a city in Bithynia founded in the 7th century BC, in a valley leading down to the Bosphorus shore, by the inhabitants of the Greek colony of Khalkedon and was first known as Chrysopolis (city of gold), perhaps because it was a wealthy port, or because of the way it shone when viewed from Byzantium at sunset. According to an ancient Greek geographer, the city received the name Chrysopolis because the Persian empire had a gold depository there or because it was associated with Agamemnon and Chryseis' son Chryses. An eighteenth-century writer speculated that it received the name because of the excellence of its harbor. The city was used as a harbor and shipyard and was an important staging post in the wars between the Greeks and Persians. In 410 BC Chrysopolis was walled by the Athenian general Alcibiades. As its larger and more important ne...