The Bosphorus has always been an integral part of the fabric of the City, even when the distance from the center to some villages of Upper Bosphorus made communication a long journey. Because even then, these villages were considered by all as suburbs of the City.

The Bosphorus villages discussed in this book number twelve. Not all the villages are located on the European coast of the Black Sea. The writing and lens ship stopped at those villages whose journey was characterized by the multinational and multicultural world of their inhabitants.

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