Historic Areas of Istanbul
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Where the Bosphorus meets the Sea of Marmara, Istanbul has commanded the passage between Europe and Asia for over two thousand years — as Byzantium, Constantinople and the Ottoman capital in turn. Its historic areas hold the ancient Hippodrome, Hagia Sophia's 6th-century dome and the Süleymaniye Mosque raised by Sinan in the 16th century, landmarks of successive empires stacked within one city. UNESCO inscribed these quarters in 1985.
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