Üsküdar

Sister cities

• Kaposvár

History

Üsküdar was founded in the 7th century BC by ancient Greek colonists from Megara a few decades before Byzantium was founded on the opposite shore. It was originally called Chrysopolis (, 'Golden City'). According to an ancient Greek geographer, the city received the name Chrysopolis because the Persian empire had a gold depository there or because it was associated with Agamemnon and Chryseis' son, Chryses. On the other hand, according to an 18th-century writer, it received the name because of the excellence of its harbor. The city was used as a harbor and shipyard and was an important staging post in the wars between the Greeks and Persians. In 410 BC Chrysopolis was taken by the Athenian general Alcibiades, and the Athenians used it thenceforth to charge a toll on ships coming from and going to the Black Sea. During the WWI, Üsküdar suffered several times in 1918 due to the British bombing of İstanbul. The neighborhood suffered during the ethnic-religious violence of the 6 September 1955, Istanbul pogrom. Turkish rioters looted Greek and Armenian Christian shops and many Greeks and Armenians subsequently fled the country. Ottoman era paintings and drawings of Üsküdar File:'One of the wards in the hospital at Scutari'. Wellcome M0007724 - restoration, cropped.jpg|'One of the wards in the hospital at Scutari'. Fausto Zonaro Istanbul - an den Hängen von Üsküdar.jpg|Fausto Zonaro İstanbul - Üsküdar, 1929 File:Şemsi Paşa Complex, Üsküdar, Istanbul (16034805140).jpg|Şemsi Paşa Complex, Üsküdar, Istanbul. File:The Allied Fleets anchored in the Bosphorus, 1853.jpg|The Allied Fleets anchored in the Bosphorus, 1853. File:Die Gartenlaube (1897) b 177.jpg|The Garden Arbor (1897) File:Scutari, Constantinople, Turkey LOC 4211213938.jpg|Scutari, Constantinople [between ca.…