The best of Istanbul

This week is my turn to post the blog and that is our second last topics.
The last topic will be post by piqa.

Our topic for this week is megacity.According to the topic,

i would like to choose Istanbul as the megacity that i will discuss in my blog.


Istanbul also known as Byzantium and Constantinople.

That is the largest city in Turkey and also as the fifth largest city in the world.

Its known as megacity because its have 12.6 million of population.

In its long history,Istanbul has served as the capital city of the Roman Empire,the East Roman Empire,the Latin Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

That is the graph of history population in Istanbul.

From the smallest population to the largest one until its became the MEGACITY.

The urban landscape of Istanbul is constantly changing.

From Greek until Byzantine periods,the city was largely made up

of the historic peninsula of constantinople.

From time to time,the numbers of tall building was rapidly growth.

At the same time the numbers of people in Istanbul also increase according to the development.Many building was build and several of them became the symbolic of Istanbul.For example,

historical mosques,church,synagogues,palace castle and towers.

It is the important aset that can attract other people from the other countries to visit Istanbul.

The famous Maiden's (leander's) tower is one of the value symbol in Istambul.
It was original build by Ancient general Alcibiades.This tower is important to control the movements of the Persian ship in the Bosphorus.

Maiden's(leander's) Tower


Majority of people in Istanbul are Muslim and the minority are Greek Orthodox Christians, Armenian Christians, Catholic Levantines and Sephardic jews.
According to the 200 census,there were 2691 active mosques,123 active churches and 26 active synagogues in Istanbul,as well as 109 muslim cemetries and 57 non-muslim cemetries.

One of the Mosque..


One of the Church..

In the nut shell,Istanbul is the valueable megacity.There are many interesting place that we should know.


Lastly,i would like to apologize to all if i have make mistake because this is the last blog that i must post to complete my assigment of BBI 2409 for my first semesta as a student of DKHP at University Putra Malaysia kampus Bintulu..