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Yavuz Sultan Selim
Of all Ottoman heritage in Istanbul, surely the most visible are monumental imperial mosques. The biggest complexes are from the 16th and 17th century, although mosques built in the 18th and 19th century are equally significant. Fatih Sultan Mehmed constructed two big mosque complexes in the 15th century, right after he conquered Constantinople. But these two original complexes were destroyed by earthquakes ...
