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Istanbul
The ancient city of Constantinople, whose mosques and minarets look down on the Bosporus that divides Asia from Europe and links the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, might seem an odd place from which to contemplate the new phenomenon of Euro-nationalism. Yet its long history should remind us that how far authority extends may not be the best measure of its real power. As the capital of the sprawling multiethnic Ottoman Empire, Istanbul was in constant crisis as its rulers sought simultaneously to maintain control in its decaying provinces and to fend off hostile neighbors. As the leading commercial city of a Turkish nation-state confined to Anatolia and ...