"Istanbul: Jewel of the Marmara Region By JOHN NASH Hernando Today correspondent Published: Dec 1, 2007
Some 2,000 years before Columbus stumbled on America, a Greek mariner, named Byzas, sailed into a protected inlet near what appeared to be the end of a vast, inland sea. He found the place to be so inviting that he decided to stay, thus starting the city which later bore his name—“Byzantium.”"
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