ConstantinopleSouth of the Golden Horn, on the narrow tongue of landnarrow it seems as seen from the hills of the northern shoreis the city of Constantine and his successors in empire, seated, like the old Rome, on seven hills, and surrounded on three sides by sea, on the fourth by the still splendid, though shattered, medival walls. Northwards are the two towns, now linked together, of Pera and Galata, that look back only to the trading settlements of the Middle