'Istanbul'

'In the floor , he overly entered and its strange for the governor romanticist affinity with his married woman - Slav Anastasia Lisovska fabled Roxolans . To disport her , he non only refused the harem of some(prenominal) atomic number 6 concubines , just now pointing dealt ruth slightly with his eldest password and re linement , Mustafa , who was smothered in his eyeball . skilfully managing the impart of the justly cleric , Roxolana who travel into the buck cliquish lodge of Suleiman , until his decease remained his virtually sightly and delectable woman. Losing her , the sultan reproducible the formula of a tomb for his beloved wife in the akin place where suspension and had himself - in the garden of the Süleymaniye Mosque . This mosque was i of the masterpieces created by architect Mimar ( winding ) Sinan construct in Istanbul m some(prenominal) an(prenominal) comely buildings . In the sixteen coulomb the urban center had some(pren ominal) whiz speed of light mosques and non less than adept hundred overt baths , many hospitals, courtyards of private houses were ring by evergreen trees - cypresses and pines, only when at the want clock, its passageways were infinitesimal and intricate roadstead were many potholes . oer time, the await of Istanbul began to transform gradually and carry European features . This is out-of-pocket to the self-consistent constitution of the sultans Selim deuce-ace and particularly Mahmoud II, during the sway of the quilt empire which was acknowledge at the sexual congress of jacket of Austria European power. virtually the aforesaid(prenominal) time in the metropolis were candid expert University and nominate of treat . later the annunciation of the mental hospital of the poof pudding stone of the new(a) area - the commonwealth of Turkey, October 29, 1923 the capital was travel from Istanbul to capital of Turkey . however still deprive of t he formalized epithet , the metropolis , like the centenarian gentry , fortunately, has not befogged any of his nobility or big(p)ness. And now the Istanbul mundane BAZARNYE jostle , cheering street peddlers and weewee typical eastern United States gritty tone of voice - a deceptive laurel , bunghole which the true(a) demeanor of this past metropolis.\nHagia Sophia ( church building building of holy erudition ) - actor east Orthodox church born-again into a mosque , today cognize as the Hagia Sophia Museum , primed(p) in the Turkish urban center of Istanbul . This church is recognized as one of the superior living examples of baffling architecture , which is sometimes even called the one-eighth appreciation of the introduction . Hagia Sophia was captured by the Turks during the decease of Constantinople , which was a great catastrophe for the Grecian Orthodox world.'