Topkapı Palace

palace museum in Istanbul, Turkey

Piri Reis's nautical chart

Byzantine church building in Istanbul, Turkey now a hall and museum

city park in İstanbul, Turkey

upright=1.2|thumb|The apartments of the Crown Prince in the Topkapı Palace, which was also called kafes The Kafes (, from ), literally "cage", was the part of the Imperial Harem of the Ottoman Palace where possible successors to the throne were kept under a form of house-arrest and constant surveillance by the palace guards.

Ottoman imperial harem

sword of state used during the enthronement ceremony in the Ottoman Empire

elite bureaucratic school in Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey

museum building in Fatih, Istanbul

thumb|right|Pages of the (Inner Service) with a court dwarf and a deaf-mute () '''''' (, from Persian , ) was the term used in the Ottoman Empire to designate the "Inner Service" of the imperial court, concerned with the private service of the Ottoman sultans, as opposed to the state-administrative "Outer Service" (). Its name derives from the location of the sultan's apartments in the inner court of the Topkapi Palace, which in turn echoed the arrangements of the palace in Edirne, the Ottomans' second capital.

illuminated manuscript

early manuscript of the Quran

islamic religious relics

museum in Fatih, İstanbul, European Turkey

86 carats pear-shaped diamond

alleged original standard of the Prophet Muhammad, kept in Topkapı Palace in Istanbul

The Hünername ( "Book of Talents", TSMK H.1523-1524) is an illustrated manuscript completed in 1584–1588 at the Ottoman court and preserved since then in Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. It contains the history of the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire and particularly that of Suleiman the Magnificent. Bound in two volumes and illustrated with 89 double-page miniatures, it is one of the most famous Ottoman manuscripts.

'''''' (, from the Persian word for 'outside') was the term used in the Ottoman Empire to designate the "Outer Service" of the imperial court, concerned with the public affairs of the Ottoman sultans, as opposed to the private "Inner Service" (). Its name derives from the location of its offices in the outer court of the Topkapi Palace, which in turn echoed the arrangements of the palace in Edirne, the Ottomans' second capital.

school inside of the innermost court of Topkapı Palace

Timurid dynasty pattern scroll

archeological site in Turkey

mansion in Fatih, İstanbul, European Turkey