Hey be happy with your Atina (Athens) which is a pure Greek city. Plus Istanbul is unbelivable dependent on Anatolia and can't be seperated.
You are so in love with Istanbul, have you ever visited the "Queen of the cities" though?
Do not project your own emotions on me; this thread is quite relaxed anyway, no reason for such antipathies

And i have already told you that i have not been there; does it matter? And no city is dependant on any particular region; if anything Thessalonike is a much better example of that, being in the past very important in the ottoman empire, and then surviving as an important city past the balkan wars. Today again it is the main port of the balkans
