بودروم مدينة تركيّة ساحليّة تقع في الجنوب الغربيّ من دولة تركيا، في منطقة بحر إيجة التركيّة. تُعد بودروم من المدن الصّغيرة ولكنّها تستقطب السُيّاح من جميع أنحاء العالم بسبب جمال شُطآنها ومُناخها اللّطيف الذي يمتدّ لجميع...

تركيا هي دولةٌ جمهوريّةٌ علمانية ديمقراطية، تقع في منطقة الشرق الأوسط. أراضي تركيا عبارة عن شبه جزيرة؛ حيث تقع الغالبيّة العُظمى من تلك الأراضي في قارة آسيا، في حين أنّ جُزءًا من أراضيها تقع في قارة أوروبا. تُطلّ تركيا على...

مدينة إسطنبول كانت تُعرفُ مدينةُ إسطنبول في الماضي بالعديدِ من الأسماء، مثل: الأستانة، والقسطنطينيّة، وتُعدُّ مدينةُ إسطنبول أكبرَ مدينةٍ تركيّةٍ، وثاني أكبر مدينة عالمياً من حيثُ الكثافةِ السكانيّة، وتُعتبرُ المركزَ...

A Turkish bath or Hammam (Turkish: hamam, Arabic: حمّام‎, romanized: ḥammām) is a place of public bathing associated with the Islamic world. It is a prominent feature in the culture of the Ottoman Empire, as well as other regions and historical periods of the Muslim world. A variation on it as a method of cleansing and relaxation became popular during the Victorian era, and then spread...

Turkish cuisine (Turkish: Türk mutfağı) is largely the heritage of Ottoman cuisine, which can be described as a fusion and refinement of Central Asian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Eastern European and Balkan cuisines. Turkish cuisine has in turn influenced those and other neighbouring cuisines, including those of Southeast Europe (Balkans), Central Europe, and Western Europe. The Ottomans fused...

The Bosporus also known as the Strait of Istanbul; Turkish: İstanbul Boğazı, colloquially Boğaz) is a narrow, natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in northwestern Turkey. It forms part of the continental boundary between Europe and Asia, and divides Turkey by separating Anatolia from Thrace. It is the world's narrowest strait used for international navigation. The...

There are many legends about the construction of the tower and its location. According to one legend, an emperor had a much beloved daughter and one day, an oracle prophesied that she would be killed by a venomous snake on her 18th birthday. The emperor, in an effort to thwart his daughter's early demise by placing her away from land so as to keep her away from any snakes, had the tower built in the...

Istanbul , formerly known as Byzantium and Constantinople, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural and historic center. Istanbul is a transcontinental city in Eurasia, straddling the Bosporus strait (which separates Europe and Asia) between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its commercial and historical center lies on the European side and about a third of its...

Hagia Sophia officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi) and formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia is a Late Antique place of worship in Istanbul. Built in 537 as the patriarchal cathedral of the imperial capital of Constantinople, it was the largest Christian church of the eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire) and the Eastern Orthodox Church, except during the...

Çamlıca Hill (Turkish: Çamlıca Tepesi), aka Big Çamlıca Hill (Turkish: Büyük Çamlıca Tepesi) to differentiate from the nearby Little Çamlıca Hill ,is a hill in Üsküdar district of Istanbul, Turkey. Situated on the Asian part of the city at 268 m (879 ft) above sea level, Çamlıca Hill has a panoramic view of the southern part of Bosphorus and the mouth of Golden Horn. The hill...