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Travel Bites 924: Istanbul when it was Constantinople

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For thousands of years, this place, where East meets West, has been a crossroads of civilizations. Ancient Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman reminders make it clear that Istanbul has long been one of the great cities on earth.

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