Topkapi is the largest and oldest palace in the world to survive to our day. It is a palace in Istanbul, Turkey, which was the official and primary residence in the city of the Ottoman Sultans for 400 years.
Initial construction began in 1459, ordered by Sultan Mehmed II, the conqueror of Byzantine Constantinople. The palace is
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Istanbul is a historic city steeped in cultural tradition and rich in ancient and exotic artifacts and sites, and this is one of them.
The Basilica Cistern or Yerebatan Sarnıcı, is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey.
The cistern, was built in
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Besides Turkish national history, culture and existence, you can also sight the most valuable historical Europan and Middle Eastern traces in this museum.
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Introduction of Rezan Has Museum to world of culture and art has been realized with the exhibition “Timeless Simplicity” which was the opening exhibition of 11th Oriental Carpet Conference. Our museum is preparing its exhibitions by concentrating on the theme Haliç incorporating the traces of Byzantine, Ottoman and Republic periods due to its location.
Rezan Has
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