Category: Places

Looking at the Old City from the opposite coast of the Golden Horn, from left to right, you will see the Topkapı Palace (1478) and the immaculate Hagia Sofia (537) at first sight. The two of them, so close to each other, mark two different eras of this ancient city. Two empires which, according to […]

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The word Harem has been the source of connotations that allude to sexual fantasies in Western minds since early times. The idea of a group of women shut off from the outside world and treated as the property of a single man, whether he is a sovereign as in the case of the Ottoman Sultan […]

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