11/13/2023 0 Comments Golden gate fog horn![]() ![]() San Francisco has been a critical west coast port city since its beginnings in the mid-1800s. Major port cities: Istanbul is a major port city, historically and currently providing a critical link to the Mediterranean for Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria.The two cities, even in spite of historical and cultural differences have many similar features. Very much like that of Oakland and the Oakland Hills. Similarities of seeing a large container port with a hilly backdrop Palace on the tip of historic Istanbul, we couldn't avoid the When we looked across the Bosphorus from Topkapi In addition, the landward sides of both places have very Yes the Golden Gate is much shorter in length, but the twoĪre both dramatic water passages with steep slopes and cliffs falling to The Golden Gate is much more dramatic, despiteįact it is the Bosphorus and the Golden Gate that are more analogous toĮach other. Geographically it is a flooded estuary that is only 750 meters wide at "Goldens"? Although the Golden Horn is where the bustling port started, Mountains along it, but it also links the Black Sea to the Sea of It'sĪpproximately the same width as the Hudson, with steep hills and Valley in New York State combined with a Straits of Gibraltar. ![]() ![]() In Turkish.) in its width and length is much more like the Hudson River The Bosphorus (also known as the Bosporus or Boğaziçi Nearly 20 miles long compared to the Golden Gate's 2 miles. Has San Francisco had time to "catch up" with Istanbul and its long 1700 year history to become a great "entrepot of eastern commerce"?įirstly we'll look at the geography, and then later to the cities and their built form.Īlthough the cities do have similar topography, Istanbul's BosphorusĬonnecting two seas is actually quite a bit longer than the Golden Gate Over 150 years have passed since 1846 and both cities have grown considerably since 1846. In short, Frémont found that both harbors had narrow entrances, were great ports, and had "advantages for commerce" with links to Asia. The form of the entrance into the bay of San Francisco, and its advantages for commerce, Asiatic inclusive, suggested to me the name which I gave to this entrance, and which I put upon the map that accompanied a geographical memoir addressed to the senate of the United States, in June, 1848." The form of the harbor and its advantages for commerce, and that before it became an entrepot of eastern commerce, suggested the name to the Greek founders of Byzantium. To this gate I gave the name of Chrysopylae, or Golden Gate for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium (Constantinople afterwards) was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn. "Between these points is the strait about one mile broad in its narrowest part, and five miles long from the sea to the bay. The last question is easily answered when the full text is found to state: Previously, the Spanish had a mouthful of a name: “Boca del Puerto de San Francisco” or "Mouth of the Port of San Francisco". Were these two great "Golden" straits and corresponding harbors really that similar, or was it simply Frémont's 19th Century boosterism to promote the barely existent town of San Francisco that links these two cities? Finally, what were the "same reasons" that these harbors were termed "Golden"? Although each city have very different cultures and are half a world away from each other, maybe they are not so different or hold some key similarities. Courtesy Henrivarium at īyzantium was really Constantinople, and is now modern day Istanbul.
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