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Selimiye Barracks / İstanbul

Selimiye barracks in İstanbul's Harem on their backs a large barracks. Suleiman the magnificent built the Palace of the Inn instead of a wooden barracks between 1794-99 Third Selim. Janissary in 1807, when the barracks during the uprising, the second Sultan Mahmud 1827-29 Architect Krikor Balyan instead of the barracks between the masonry built a barracks. He married Sixthly Han with the addition of some parts in a timely manner has become today.

 

The rumor was about the size of: father and son in the same place he did military service, military service and never saw each other during their.

 

Barracks, during the Crimean War (1853-56) was used as a hospital. 1854-55 British Famous nurse Florence Nightingale worked here for up to six months. During the first world war was given to the army barracks again. After a while the Republic tobacco store, 1959-63 is used as a military junior high school. in the year 1963 was the first fix has been turned into OrduKarargahı. in the 1970s and 1980s, he served in the military barracks in the time of martial law court. It also was used as a military prison. Today it is the headquarters of the first Army Corps.

 

Selimiye barracks, 200 m x 267 m in the middle of a large courtyard is rectangular in size. The throat is set up on a sloping terrain, number of basement in every way. Located on three floors of the basement. There are four seven-storey corner turrets. One of the towers is used as the Florence Nightingale Museum.

 

Barracks, Turkish architecture, İstanbul is one of the first structure that modifies the traditional appearance.

 

Source: Encyclopedia Of The Guide

 

 

 

 

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