This is the story of Topkapi Palace in Istanbul is a small Doric settlers from Megara as far as 633 BC, when a trading colony, became known as Byzantine. Topography and strategic considerations: The two main limitations, determine the location of the old town. The site of the new town is located at the tip of the peninsula was ordered three waterways. With the formal establishment of the police, the length of the city walls, but the Seven Towers have twelve measured 5 km, was built as a protection. The wall, the wall of the hill, the Acropolis was elected. It was the first of the seven hills of the city - an ancient legend about the city, apparently "necessary" in the landscape.
Expansion and growth has led to the conversion of part of the appearance of the city. First major was during the reign of Roman emperor security Miu Small Wells Suse, made in 196. This is the land involved in the rebuilding of the wall. Another Roman emperor Constantine the Great, he transformed the city into the great city was renamed Constantinople. This city was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Expansion and growth has led to the conversion of part of the appearance of the city. First major was during the reign of Roman emperor security Miu Small Wells Suse, made in 196. This is the land involved in the rebuilding of the wall. Another Roman emperor Constantine the Great, he transformed the city into the great city was renamed Constantinople. This city was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
The 412 was designed for a new metropolis to serve as the capital of his empire, Emperor Theodosius made, we conducted a fourth major expansion of the city and rebuild the walls of the country.
Over the centuries, the palace, abandoned building, demolition and reconstruction. Most of those facing the Marmara Sea. It was the Golden Horn is a dam, where the walls of his new palace found on the peninsula of land (Blachernae) fateful change you decide to find - for the city - where the emperor Justinian (565-578 ), was a radical. Alexius Comnenus (1061-1118) at the time, as shown in the official residence of Emperor Blachernae, other Byzantine palaces were abandoned.
140 years after the founding of the city two thousand young Ottoman sultan conquered the city at the age of 23. II Fatih named after the victory of his "conquest" to commemorate, in his energetic Mehmed, the conqueror do to the capital of his empire to grow. Proves the rule-making, which, perhaps coincidentally, perhaps, for more: and his ambition for world domination, it was founded by local residents and the administrative center, the length of the area that includes a wall and they chose exactly the same location close to those of ancient Byzantium.
Over the centuries, the palace, abandoned building, demolition and reconstruction. Most of those facing the Marmara Sea. It was the Golden Horn is a dam, where the walls of his new palace found on the peninsula of land (Blachernae) fateful change you decide to find - for the city - where the emperor Justinian (565-578 ), was a radical. Alexius Comnenus (1061-1118) at the time, as shown in the official residence of Emperor Blachernae, other Byzantine palaces were abandoned.
140 years after the founding of the city two thousand young Ottoman sultan conquered the city at the age of 23. II Fatih named after the victory of his "conquest" to commemorate, in his energetic Mehmed, the conqueror do to the capital of his empire to grow. Proves the rule-making, which, perhaps coincidentally, perhaps, for more: and his ambition for world domination, it was founded by local residents and the administrative center, the length of the area that includes a wall and they chose exactly the same location close to those of ancient Byzantium.
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