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People are fishing under the galata bridge on the shore of the golden horn in istanbul, Turkey. January 10 2020 #169789421
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The Golden Horn also known by its modern Turkish name, Halic, is a major urban waterway and the primary inlet of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey.As a natural estuary that connects with the Bosphorus Strait at the point where the strait meets the Sea of Marmara, the waters of the Golden Horn help define the northern boundary of the peninsula constituting `Old Istanbul` ancient Byzantium and Constantinople, the tip of which is the promontory of Sarayburnu, or Seraglio Point. This estuarial inlet geographically separates the historic center of Istanbul from the rest of the city, and forms a horn-shaped, sheltered harbor that in the course of history has protected Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and other maritime trade ships for thousands of years.
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