Angellight 888 at 15:43, March 8, 2009

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New page: '''Scutari''' (Greek Σκούταρι, Turkish: Uskudar) is a large and densely populated suburb of Istanbul, on the Anatolian shore of the [[Bosp...

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'''Scutari''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] Σκούταρι, Turkish: Uskudar) is a large and densely populated suburb of [[Constantinople|Istanbul]], on the [[Anatolia]]n shore of the [[Bosphorus]] right opposite the heart of the great city, next to Kadıköy. It is home to about half a million people.

==History==
Scutari (ancient ''Chrysoupolis'') was a city in [[Bithynia]] founded in the 7th century BC, in a valley leading down to the Bosphorus shore, by the inhabitants of the Greek colony of [[Chalcedon]] and was first known as Chrysoupolis (city of Gold) (perhaps because it was a wealthy little port, or because of the way it shone when viewed from [[Byzantium]] at sunset). The city was used as a harbour and shipyard and was an important staging post in the wars between the Greeks and Persians. In 410 BC Chrysopolis was walled by the [[Athens|Athenian]] general [[Alcibiades]]. As its larger and more important neighbor across the Bosphorus grew, the town became a toll-booth for the Bosphorus and later became the first point of defence of Byzantium against the Ottoman armies. Byzantine armies were stationed here, but to no avail; by the time Constantinople was conquered by the Ottomans in [[1453]], Scutari had already been in Turkish hands for 100 years.

In the Ottoman period Scutari was one of the three communities outside the city walls (along with Eyüp and [[Galata]]). The area was a major burial ground, and today many large cemeteries remain including Karacaahmet Mezarlığı, Bülbülderesi Mezarlığı, and a number of Jewish and Christian cemeteries.

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Angellight 888 at 15:43, March 8, 2009

Irlandos: New page: '''Scutari''' (Greek Σκούταρι, Turkish: Uskudar) is a large and densely populated suburb of Istanbul, on the Anatolian shore of the [[Bosp...