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Mosques built by Sultan Suleiman I and his successors gave the city the unique appearance it still preserves today. The individual communities, though, still lived in self-contained areas. A 16th century Chinese geographical treatise described Constantinople/Istanbul as follows: Its city has two walls. A sovereign prince lives in the city.
Tekstilkent Plaza built. 6 May: Istanbul Postal Museum established. 26 August: Isbank Tower 1 built. 16 September: M2 (Istanbul Metro) opened. 2001 Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport opened. 21 September: Tepe Nautilus mall opened. 2002 Tekfen Tower built. Endem TV Tower built. Sakıp Sabancı Museum opened. 2003 Istanbul Pride begins.
Constantinople [a] (see other names) was a historical city located on the Bosporus that served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman empires between its consecration in 330 until 1930, when it was renamed to Istanbul.
Istanbul's first private university, Koç University, was founded as late as 1992, because private universities were not allowed in Turkey before the 1982 amendment to the constitution. [312] Istanbul is also home to several conservatories and art schools, including Mimar Sinan Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1882. [317]
The 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes collapsed many older buildings and some recent ones: [27] the Environment and Urbanization Ministry is assessing the damage. [28] Unreinforced masonry buildings are vulnerable. [29] Many older buildings in Istanbul are vulnerable to pancake collapses. [30] Retrofitting old buildings is possible but expensive ...
Map of Constantinople in the Byzantine Era (before the Ottoman conquest) Sultan Bayezid I considered taking Constantinople, but he was occupied with wars in the west and east and did not want to divert significant forces to storm the well-fortified city. He decided to take Constantinople by force, and for seven years, beginning in 1394, he ...
Istanbul is known as the City on the Seven Hills (Turkish: Yedi tepeli şehir). The city has inherited this denomination from Byzantine Constantinople which – consciously following [ citation needed ] the model of Rome – was built on seven hills too.
The Aqueduct of Valens (Turkish: Valens Su Kemeri, Ancient Greek: Ἀγωγὸς τοῦ ὕδατος, romanized: Agōgós tou hýdatos, lit. 'aqueduct') was a Roman aqueduct system built in the late 4th century AD, to supply Constantinople – the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.