Istanbul Province, formerly known as Constantinople, is the largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, cultural and historic hub.
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Istanbul Province, formerly known as Constantinople, is the largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, cultural and historic hub.
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Istanbul Province is the most populous European city, and the world's 15th-largest city.
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Istanbul Province is home to several UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and hosts the headquarters of numerous Turkish companies, accounting for more than thirty percent of the country's economy.
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Kostantiniye and Istanbul Province were the names used alternatively by the Ottomans during their rule.
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Istanbul Province invited people from all over Europe to his capital, creating a cosmopolitan society that persisted through much of the Ottoman period.
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Istanbul Province has a borderline Mediterranean climate, humid subtropical climate and oceanic climate under both classifications.
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Istanbul Province's weather is strongly influenced by the Sea of Marmara to the south, and the Black Sea to the north.
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Furthermore, as Istanbul Province is a large and rapidly expanding city, its urban heat island has been intensifying the effects of climate change.
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Much of the Asian side of the Bosporus functions as a suburb of the economic and commercial centers in European Istanbul Province, accounting for a third of the city's population but only a quarter of its employment.
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The Turkish government has ambitious plans for an expansion of the city west and northwards on the European side in conjunction with the new Istanbul Province Airport, opened in 2019; the new parts of the city will include four different settlements with specified urban functions, housing 1.
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Istanbul Province is primarily known for its Byzantine and Ottoman architecture.
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Since 2004, the municipal boundaries of Istanbul have been coincident with the boundaries of its province.
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The city, considered capital of the larger Istanbul Province, is administered by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, which oversees the 39 districts of the city-province.
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Small settlements adjacent to major population centers in Turkey, including Istanbul Province, were merged into their respective primary cities during the early 1980s, resulting in metropolitan municipalities.
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Istanbul Province experienced especially rapid growth during the second half of the 20th century, with its population increasing tenfold between 1950 and 2000.
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Istanbul Province has been a cosmopolitan city throughout much of its history, but it has become more homogenized since the end of the Ottoman era.
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Into the 19th century, the Christians of Istanbul Province tended to be either Greek Orthodox, members of the Armenian Apostolic Church or Catholic Levantines.
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Istanbul Province became one of the world's most important Jewish centers in the 16th and 17th century.
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Ottoman Jews in Istanbul Province excelled in commerce, and came to particularly dominate the medical profession.
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Politically, Istanbul Province is seen as the most important administrative region in Turkey.
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The contest in Istanbul Province carried deep political, economic and symbolic significance for Erdogan, whose election of mayor of Istanbul Province in 1994 had served as his launchpad.
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The first government defeat in Istanbul Province occurred in the 2017 constitutional referendum, where Istanbul Province voted 'No' by 51.
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Administratively, Istanbul is divided into 39 districts, more than any other province in Turkey.
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Istanbul Province sends 98 Members of Parliament to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, which has a total of 600 seats.
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Istanbul Province had the eleventh-largest economy among the world's urban areas in 2018, and is responsible for of Turkey's industrial output, of GDP, and of tax revenues.
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In 2019, companies based in Istanbul Province produced exports worth and received imports totaling ; these figures were equivalent to and, respectively, of the national totals.
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Istanbul Province has three major shipping ports – the Port of Haydarpasa, the Port of Ambarli, and the Port of Zeytinburnu – as well as several smaller ports and oil terminals along the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara.
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Istanbul Province has been an international banking hub since the 1980s, and is home to the only active stock exchange in Turkey, Borsa Istanbul Province, which was originally established as the Ottoman Stock Exchange in 1866.
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In 1995, keeping up with the financial trends, Borsa Istanbul Province moved its headquarters to Istinye, in the vicinity of Maslak, which hosts the headquarters of numerous Turkish banks.
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Istanbul Province has more than fifty museums, with the Topkapi Palace, the most visited museum in the city, bringing in more than in revenue each year.
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Istanbul Province expects 1 million tourists from cruise companies after the renovation of its cruise port, known as Galataport in Karakoy district.
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Istanbul Province was historically known as a cultural hub, but its cultural scene stagnated after the Turkish Republic shifted its focus toward Ankara.
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Istanbul Province became the heart of Turkey's nascent film industry, although Turkish films were not consistently developed until the 1950s.
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Since then, Istanbul Province has been the most popular location to film Turkish dramas and comedies.
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The most prominent of the festivals that evolved from the original Istanbul Province Festival is the Istanbul Province Biennial, held every two years since 1987.
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Istanbul Province has an active nightlife and historic taverns, a signature characteristic of the city for centuries, if not millennia.
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Akmerkez was awarded the titles of "Europe's best" and "World's best" shopping mall by the International Council of Shopping Centers in 1995 and 1996; Istanbul Province Cevahir has been one of the continent's largest since opening in 2005; Kanyon won the Cityscape Architectural Review Award in the Commercial Built category in 2006.
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Istanbul Province is famous for its sophisticated and elaborately-cooked dishes of the Ottoman cuisine.
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Istanbul Province has seven basketball teams—Anadolu Efes, Besiktas, Darussafaka, Fenerbahce, Galatasaray, Istanbul Province Buyuksehir Belediyespor and Buyukcekmece—that play in the premier-level Turkish Basketball Super League.
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Istanbul Province Park was a venue of the World Touring Car Championship and the European Le Mans Series in 2005 and 2006, but the track has not seen either of these competitions since then.
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Istanbul Province Sailing Club, established in 1952, hosts races and other sailing events on the waterways in and around Istanbul Province each year.
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Istanbul Province has long-running Armenian language newspapers, notably the dailies Marmara and Jamanak and the bilingual weekly Agos in Armenian and Turkish.
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Istanbul Province's airwaves are the busiest in Turkey, primarily featuring either Turkish-language or English-language content.
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Istanbul Province is home to the headquarters of several Turkish stations and regional headquarters of international media outlets.
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Istanbul Province-based Star TV was the first private television network to be established following the end of the TRT monopoly; Star TV and Show TV remain highly popular throughout the country, airing Turkish and American series.
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Kanal D and ATV are other stations in Istanbul that offer a mix of news and series; NTV and Sky Turk—both based in the city—are mainly just known for their news coverage in Turkish.
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Istanbul Province is home to several conservatories and art schools, including Mimar Sinan Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1882.
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Today, Istanbul Province has a chlorinated and filtered water supply and a sewage treatment system managed by the Istanbul Province Water and Sewerage Administration .
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Sultan Abdulmecid I issued Samuel Morse his first official honor for the telegraph in 1847, and construction of the first telegraph line—between Istanbul Province and Edirne—finished in time to announce the end of the Crimean War in 1856.
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Istanbul Province's local public transportation system is a network of commuter trains, trams, funiculars, metro lines, buses, bus rapid transit, and ferries.
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Istanbul Province had three large international airports, two of which currently serve commercial passenger flights.
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The largest is the new Istanbul Province Airport, opened in 2018 in the Arnavutkoy district to the northwest of the city center, on the European side, near the Black Sea coast.
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The presence of feral cats in Istanbul Province is noted to be very prevalent, with estimates ranging from a hundred thousand to over a million stray cats.
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