NOT KNOWN FACTUAL STATEMENTS ABOUT ISTANBUL ESCORT

From the 10th century onward, Galata was an enclave for overseas traders—principally the Genoese—who enjoyed extraterritorial privileges at the rear of their partitions. After the Ottomans took town in 1453, all foreigners who weren't citizens from the empire had been restricted to this quarter. Close to palatial embassies had been compounds th