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Istanbul University was established in 1453 by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II.[1] However, Richard Honig, a German law historian, who claims that Byzantine and Ottoman traditions could be analyzed together, expressed that the history of Istanbul University can be traced back to 1 March 1321.[2] The university, which was first established in today's main building, was equivalent to Roman universities consisting of schools of medicine, law, philosophy and letters, and is considered to be the pioneer of university education in Istanbul
Istanbul, an open-air museum on an extraordinary geographical site at the crossroads of worlds, between modernity and tradition.
- Part II
Hagia Sophia is a mosque and a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be successively erected on the site by the Eastern Roman Empire, it was completed in 537 AD. The site was an Eastern Orthodox church from 360 AD to 1204, when it was converted to a Catholic church following the Fourth Crusade. It was reclaimed in 1261 and remained Eastern Orthodox until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It served as a mosque until 1935, when it became a museum. In 2020, the site once again became a mosque.
The current structure was built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I as the Christian cathedral of Constantinople for the Byzantine Empire between 532 and 537, and was designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles.
It was formally called the Church of God's Holy Wisdom and upon completion became the world's largest interior space and among the first to employ a fully pendentive dome. It is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture".
Istanbul, an open-air museum on an extraordinary geographical site at the crossroads of worlds, between modernity and tradition.
- Epilogue
Time to conclude with these last pictures.
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Istanbul, an open-air museum on an extraordinary geographical site at the crossroads of worlds, between modernity and tradition.
- Part IV : last day for memories.
Istanbul, an open-air museum on an extraordinary geographical site at the crossroads of worlds, between modernity and tradition.
- Part III : the Asian shore.