ABSTRACT
One of the most characteristic things about Constantinople is that while it has become Turkish it has not ceased to be Greek. The same is true of Thrace, Macedonia, and the fringe of Asia Minor, which contain large Turkish and other populations, but which still form a part of the Greek world to which they always belonged. In Constantinople it may be seen in any of the numerous Greek waterside communities — by those who care to get up early enough of a January morning. One of the best places is Arnaout-kyoi, a large Greek village on the European shore of the Bosphorus, where the ceremony is obligingly postponed till ten or eleven o’clock. In many parts of the Greek world it is still the custom for men and boys to masquerade in furs during the twelve days. The Greeks keep no mi-careme, as the Latins do. Their longer and severer fast continues unbroken till Easter morning.
