Eskisehir (eng: Old City) with its 500.000 inhabitants is located in central Turkey. I guess many of you didn't hear anything about this city and since it is such an underrated city (even in Turkey) I decided to open a topic about this lovely place. Enjoy the pics!
Centrally located in Anatolia, Ankara is an important commercial and industrial city. It has been the neural center of the Turkish Government, and houses all foreign embassies. It is an important crossroads of trade, strategically located at the center of Turkey's highway and rail network, and serves as the marketing center for the surrounding agricultural area.
Modern ANKARA is really two cities, a double identity that is due to the breakneck pace at which it has developed since being declared capital of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Until then Ankara had been a small provincial city, famous chiefly for the production of soft goat's wool. This city still exists, in and around the old citadel that was the site of the original settlement. The other Ankara is the modern metropolis that has grown up around a carefully planned attempt to create a seat of government worthy of a modern, Western-looking state.
Босфор — пролив между Европой и Малой Азией, соединяющий Чёрное море с Мраморным. На обеих сторонах пролива расположен Стамбул. По легенде, пролив получил своё название благодаря дочери древнейшего аргивского царя — прекрасная возлюбленная Зевса по имени Ио была превращена им в белую корову, чтобы избежать гнева его жены Геры. Несчастная Ио избрала водный путь к спасению, нырнув в синеву пролива, который с тех пор и называется «коровьим бродом» или Босфором.