Anadoluhisarı
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Anadoluhisarı (), known historically as Güzelce Hisar ("the Beauteous Fortress") is a medieval Ottoman fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey on the Anatolian (Asian) side of the Bosporus. The complex is the oldest surviving Turkish architectural structure built in Istanbul, and further gives its name to the neighborhood around it in the city's Beykoz district.
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- Military installation.name
- Anadoluhisarı
- Military installation.location
- Anadoluhisarı, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Anadolu Hisarı in 2024 (cropped).jpg
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- 300px
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- Anadoluhisarı as seen from the Bosphorus
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- Turkey Istanbul
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- 300px
- Military installation.type
- Fortress
- Military installation.built
- 1394
- Military installation.builder
- Bayezid I
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Anadoluhisarı (), known historically as Güzelce Hisar ("the Beauteous Fortress") is a medieval Ottoman fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey on the Anatolian (Asian) side of the Bosporus. The complex is the oldest surviving Turkish architectural structure built in Istanbul, and further gives its name to the neighborhood around it in the city's Beykoz district.
==History== Anadoluhisarı was built between 1393 and 1394 on the commission of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, as part of his preparations for a siege of the then-Byzantine city of Constantinople.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anadoluhisarı” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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