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Close ✕Istanbul
The eastern object of the whole Orient Express project, and the city that shows what the phrase "the route survived, the purpose did not" actually costs a map.
41.0, 29.0 · approximate · settled from antiquity; officially named Istanbul from 1930
On the world
- A place in: Luxury Rail Across Continents · 7 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections
- is connected to of Orient Express — The eastern object of the service, reached by steamer from Varna from 1883 and entirely by rail from 1 June 1889.
- is located in of Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul — The terminal stands on the Golden Horn shore of the historic peninsula in Fatih.
- superseded Constantinople — The same settlement on the Bosphorus: the city the 1883 service was advertised to reach as Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul in 1930, and the corpus holds the earlier identity separately.
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain) · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates