"Layers of history
Turkey is a land of kings, saints, warriors and prophets, just to name a few
By TRACY BARNETT
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
By TRACY BARNETT
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
My arrival in the millennial city of Istanbul couldn't have been more picturesque. The sun was setting as I was whisked onto the freeway of what could have been the outskirts of any modern city.
It was then, as we sped past the sparkling lights of the ships on the Sea of Marmara, past the tumbledown walls of the ancient city of Constantinople, that I began to understand the historical implications of the land that I now looked upon."
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