Focusing on the nineteenth-century Istanbul data, these two sources merge the themes of “Istanbul” and “folklore” from different perspectives. Folklore de Constantinople covers an …

The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 was the fulfilment of a project that was launched already by the first Muslim conquerors in the 1st century of the Higra.

Istanbul had played a role in the religious and historical imaginations of many Europeans for centuries, particularly in the nineteenth century as Europeans gained economic influence in …

Ottoman court records, from the middle fifteenth down to the twentieth century, form an immense collection amounting to thousands of volumes—for Istanbul alone there exist 9,870 …

Map of Constantinople (1422) by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only one that predates the Turkish conquest of the city in 1453

Despite the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the Venetians, albeit with inter-ruptions, continued to live on the historic peninsula. However, it is no longer possible to speak of a …

Then comes the epic history of the city, first as Constantinople and then as Istanbul, which lasted for 1680 years. The city first enters our cultural memory with the ancient myth of Hera turning …