Exil, melancolie, nostalgie. Lecţia neînvăţată a sărutului dintre pământurile aflate la Bosfor, Cornul de Aur şi Marea Marmara
Exile, melancholy, nostalgia. Unlearned lesson of the kiss between the lands of Bosphorus, the Golden Horn and the Marmara Sea

Summary/Abstract: The vast majority of travel guides presents the settlement from the confluence of Bosphorus with the Marmara Sea, yesterday Constantinople, today Istanbul, as the place where Asia and Europe are kissing surrounded by the overwhelming sunsets of the Golden Horn. The author presents Büyükada, Islands of Princes, an archipelago consisting of nine islands, places full of history, located at distances of 10 to 23 km towards south-east of the Bosphorus. Islands are part of the Asian Istanbul. Today, only four of the nine islands of the archipelago (Burgaz, Kınalı, Heiybeli, Büyükada) are inhabited throughout the year and have daily connections to Istanbul by ferry, while the other five islands, of much smaller size, are almost deserted. History of Byzantium made this archipelago of nine islands one of the most tragic places of the ancient world. Léon Gustave Schlumberger, French historian and archaeologist, foreign honorary member (1906) of the Romanian Academy, said about the archipelago that no corner of the world is richer in lamentable disasters and heartbreaking lessons about vanity and greatness of men.

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