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Mar 12 2017

Istanbul by Thomas F. Madden

  • By Doug Merrill in Doug, Eastern Europe, History
  • March 12, 2017

Of all the places that I have visited, Istanbul almost certainly heads the list of those I would like to return to. Arriving in April of 1993, at the beginning of what I thought was six months of travel before going broke in Ireland, I was struck by how European the city was. This despite …

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