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Kösem Sultan
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Kösem Sultan

The story of Sultanate of Women continues with Kosem Sultan. This fascinating period of time in Ottoman history started in approximately 1533, when Suleiman the Magnificent married the love ...
Safiye Sultan
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Safiye Sultan

The story of Sultanate of Women continues with Safiye Sultan. This fascinating period of time in Ottoman history started in approximately 1533, when Suleiman the Magnificent married the love ...
Nurbanu Sultan
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Nurbanu Sultan

The story of the Sultanate of Women continues with Nurbanu Sultan. This captivating era in Ottoman history started around 1533, when Suleiman the Magnificent married the love of his life – ...
Mihrimah Sultan
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Mihrimah Sultan

The Sultanate of Women represents a fascinating period that began around 1533, when Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent married Hurrem Sultan. It concluded with the death of Turhan Hatice Sultan ...
Hürrem Sultan
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Hürrem Sultan

The Sultanate of Women represents a fascinating period in Ottoman history. It began around 1533, when Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent married Hurrem Sultan. It concluded with the death of ...
Churches of Balat
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Churches of Balat

Despite the fact that I've been to Istanbul many times in the past, I went to see the Balat neighbourhood for the first time in June of this year. I did go to see the Yavuz Sultan Selim and ...
Yedikule Fortress – Sultan Mehmed’s Treasury and Prison
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Yedikule Fortress – Sultan Mehmed’s Treasury and Prison

I didn't know anything about Yedikule Fortress before I went to see it. In fact, I've never heard of it despite the fact that I've been to Istanbul many times in the past. I went there ...
Tekfur Theodosius Defends Constantinople
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Tekfur Theodosius Defends Constantinople

When we talk about the Byzantine heritage in modern-day Istanbul, certainly magnificent Hagia Sophia immediately comes to mind. But there are also former Christian Orthodox churches that you ...
Magnificent Chora
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Magnificent Chora

Imagine a city that served as a centre of the Christian Orthodox faith for a thousand years and later became a centre of the Islamic Caliphate for four centuries. When Sultan Selim I ...
Little Hagia Sophia
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Little Hagia Sophia

Do you know that, apart from the famous Byzantine wonder that everyone knows, there is also the Little Hagia Sophia? Certainly, I didn't. But that's because I had never really explored ...
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