Afternoon in Galata

Galata is part of the "New District" of Istanbul. The name refers to the Galatians, an ancient group of people in Anatolia that settled here. The Genoese and Venetians also lived here in the fifteenth century, and when the Ottomans took over, they allowed Galata to remain independent. The Galata Tower was one anchor of a huge chain that literally stretched across the Golden Horn and stopped enemy ships from sailing inland. The last Byzantine emperor tried to keep out the Ottomans this way, but Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror cleverly portaged his ships over land behind the tower at night, and the emperor woke up to a successful siege. I'd like to have seen that!

Afternoon in Galata: Day 6
by Rachel

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