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Pertevniyal Valide Sultan Mosque
The Ottoman army conquered Constantinople in 1453. The Ottoman sultanate was abolished in 1922. The city of Constantinople or Istanbul, as it is now called, was under the Ottoman rule for 469 years. Consequently, the Ottoman heritage in Istanbul is enormous and it spreads over many centuries - from the beginning of the Ottoman rule to the establishment of the modern Turkish republic. Of all Ottoman ...
