https://quintbooks.com/tag/constantinople/Recent content in Constantinople on Quint BooksHugoenThu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://quintbooks.com/2024/02/08/the-quaker-city-in-the-levant-herald/Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://quintbooks.com/2024/02/08/the-quaker-city-in-the-levant-herald/<p>When Mark Twain was traveling on the Quaker City, the ship stopped twice in Constantinople (now the city of Istanbul) in Turkey. In Chapter 34 of The Innocents Abroad, Twain mentions the local English-language paper (actually bilingual, as it was printed in both English and French), The Levant Herald.</p> <p><figure class="post-figure"><picture> <source srcset="https://quintbooks.com/images/posts/the-quaker-city-in-the-levant-herald/levant-herald-title-1024x200_hu_43e3203222c2b049.webp" type="image/webp"> <img src="https://quintbooks.com/images/posts/the-quaker-city-in-the-levant-herald/levant-herald-title-1024x200.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="200" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async"> </picture></figure> </p> <p>Twain mentions the paper and others in the city that were fighting censorship, in particular in their coverage of the revolt of Crete against Turkish rule (one of several revolts by Crete that eventually led to its brief period of independence between 1898 and 1913, when Crete became part of Greece).</p>