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The Medusa Head

Matt and I posing in front of one of the Medusa heads used to hold up a cistern column
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

November 9th 2007
We sang that song the entire trip so I thought it would be a fitting title for this entry 😊 Sorry it's taken SOOOO long for me to post this! Between my new job and the holidays there hasn't been much time for blogging...but I'm getting caught up now 😊 So we were very excited about our Istanbul trip but even after reading about it in preparation for the trip, we still didn't expect ... read more
Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Istanbul

Turkish Flag Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more
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