Istanbul Asia is the right choice for your airport transfer needs with Tourwix- At first, the city was called Second or New Rome, but soon these names were forgotten and replaced by Byzantium, and in the following centuries - Constantinople.
The division of the Roman Empire into western and eastern regions in 395 resulted in the emergence of a new state in Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire that had existed for millennia. During this period, the city continued to grow, new ramparts of 6492 meters were built (we can see it today).
In the VI century AD e. The population of the city was half a million. The fall of the Byzantine Empire was accompanied by bloody feuds between royal families. The iconoclastic movement of 726-842 wreaked havoc on the city, with the prohibition of all kinds of religious images. This led to the destruction and destruction of many paintings and sculptures. The Latin invasion, which began in 1204 when the armies of the fourth crusade took over the city, plundered all churches, monasteries and monuments, and became a dark page in the history of Constantinople.
Although Byzantium regained its dominance over the city in 1261, Constantinople was never able to regain its former wealth and glory. After a 53-day siege in 1453, the city was captured by the Turks. For the first time in history, Sultan Mehmet used large caliber cannons during the attack on the walls and this is one of the factors of his success. The second factor was the general state of decline close to the natural collapse of the Byzantine Empire.
Mehmet moved the capital of the Ottoman Empire to Constantinople, which the Turks call Istanbul, and restored it, and a century later the city gained a bright national flavor, and the skyline is now decorated with silhouettes of mosques and minaret domes. In the 16th century, Istanbul became the center of the Islamic world since the Caliphate was transferred here. The decline of the Ottoman Empire, which started soon after, led to its collapse at the end of the First World War. Cut out for treatment and holiday in Istanbul Asia ...
In 1923, after the victory of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk led the Turkish national movement in Turkey was declared a republic on 29 October 1923 and moved to Turkey's capital Ankara. However, Istanbul (as Constantinople was officially called after 1930) did not lose its importance and remains the country's most important industrial, cultural, commercial and tourism center to this day.
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