Bizantium – the great Golden Horn
Filed Under (amazing land, turki) by jingga on 12-11-2008
Tagged Under : bizantium, bosphorus, europe, istanbul, turki
Istanbul truely does have a very impressive views , for whereas predominated by the beauty Golden Horn and Bophorus Strait. Golden horn is lower course that has a form like horn that shimmer. It is estuary that dissociate the city. Golden Horn is cove in Europe land city Istanbul. Golden Horn is one of the best nature port in the world.
In the era of Bizantium, Golden Horn is made as a commercial port, and has been wellknown as the busiest port in the world. In 1453, the brilliant Fatih sultan Mehmet II , visited this place and ordered all of his fleets to get back and get through the marsh to hill rear Galata and step into Horn.
Fatih defeated the Bizantium empire and conqoure the city. According to a legend, the name Golden Horn is given because when conquest, the Byzantines that run away, threw away all their properties into the rivers. Nevertheless, more common story tells, that name is given because secretory gold light that comes out of the river when the sun goes down.
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