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Hagia Sophia

Ayasofya

Built as a cathedral in 537, later an imperial mosque, then a museum, and a mosque again since 2020.

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Topkapı Palace

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The palace from which Ottoman sultans ruled for some four centuries, above the meeting of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn.

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