"How to Spend 24 Hours in Istanbul
By Poonam Chopra
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Istanbul is a tale of two cities. Straddling Europe and Asia and divided by the strait of Bosporus, the former capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires is the only metropolitan city that has its foot on two continents, with the old city sprawled over European territory and the modern, residential areas established on the Asian side"
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