The Historian · Zeynep · Istanbul
Balat
Three communities lived layered on this hill for centuries. I read Balat street by street, house by house.
The old Jewish and Greek quarter on the Golden Horn, steep lanes of Ottoman houses, synagogues, and churches.
— Zeynep, The Historian
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