During his conquest, Sultan Mehmed poverty encountered in the city with a population of only 40,000 souls who lived scattered in remote residential areas surrounded by agricultural land. He chose for his site of the palace is typical: a hill covered with olive trees, the structure of an abandoned monastery, probably the chapel, baths, and a small residential area and the sea.
This was the beginning of the great previous figure synonymous with the history of culture and government of the Ottoman Empire. The residential complex for the royal palace, the new agency is central to the planning and decision-making body of the kingdom far away, while it remained since the late 15th century to the mid l9.
The "irregular, asymmetric, non proportions of ash and non-monumental," as described in a number of European travelers in the Topkapi Palace, but in the palace of the appearance and layout of Europe which they were familiar with, either. However, even if they may have been planning a similar model was also fundamentally different from oriental or Islamic palaces. In fact, a unique microcosm of the Topkapi Palace, Felicity, "to borrow the terminology of the palace of the Ottoman Empire," or was it heaven on earth.
Topkapi, the ancient civilizations of Central Asia in a global, intercultural business and focus is considered made by the nomadic tribes of Turkish culture reached Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, Persia and the stop. In a short period of two centuries, the Ottoman Empire again, they both have a unique culture and traditions of the court was more than a thousand years, from small to large force in the world measure, the old feudal duchy of pink. Topkapi certainly cannot be separated from its predecessors in Ottoman history, perhaps those of the Golden Horn peninsula is involved in the synthesis of Byzantine elements are not.
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