Christmas is over, and the New
Year finds us right back in Constantinople. City of Countless Names is done
(excluding the new bits I’ll discover in my continuing research) so now we’re
building up from that base with a thorough exploration of the city’s quarters,
neighborhoods, and districts. We’ll start with the European Quarter of
Pera-Galata.
Although Constantinople has many pseudonyms,
the title “City of a Countless Names” really applies to the neighborhoods. All
the maps, documents, and handbooks pepper the city’s sections with official
names, ancient names, ethnic names, anglicized names, and misspelled anglicized
names. The hardest part has been trying to understand what is different and
what is the same thing. To help you and
me keep track, here is the map of Pera-Galata.
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