ISTANBUL: A Tale of Three CitiesAuthor: Bettany Hughes Language: English Binding: Paperback Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Pages: 832 Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries real and imagined.