INTERESTING FACTS ON TOPKAPI PALACE IN TURKEY

History of Topkapi

Topkapi Palace was home to all the Ottoman sultans until the rule of Abdulmecid I (1839-1860), a time of almost four centuries.

The request for the development of the Topkapi Palace on the Seraglio Point disregarding both Marmara and Bosphorus was given by Mehmed II after the success of Constantinapolis in 1453.

The spot was then an aged olive forest. The last manifestation of the first royal residence secured a region 700m², and was encased with sustained dividers 1400 meters long.

The dividers were punctured by various doors, to be specific the Otluk entryway, the Demir door and the Imperial entryway (Bab-i Humayun), and various minor calculated entryways between them.

After the rule of Mehmed II the Conqueror, the royal residence developed relentlessly to structure a city like perplexing of structures and attachs, including a shore castle known as the Topkapi shore royal residence, as it was arranged close to the gun door -Topkapi- of the old dividers of Istanbul.

At the point when the shore royal residence was torched in 1863, it loaned its name to the extraordinary complex we now know as Topkapi Palace.

The primary entry, the Bab-i Humayun, was suited by the mosque of Ayasofya (Haghia Sophia Church), and this headed an arrangement of four courts encompassed by different structures.

The courts, chambers, structures and different segments could be seen at the floor arrangement of Topkapi Palace.

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