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the area around istanbul. the city is the chief seaport as well as the commercial and financial centre of turkey. a large scale of industries are found here: automobile and truck assembly, shipbuilding and ship repairing; cement production, cigarettes; food products, fruit, olive oil, silk; glass, cotton
divides christendom in an western and eastern part, with constantinople as centre of the eastern. : turkic pechengs try to conquer constantinople, but without success. : captured by the armies of the th crusade, but the city remained under its own rule. april : crusaders burst into constantinople, and sacks...
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