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Wisteria on the side of the Topkapi Palace treasury building, which is still the Istanbul headquarters of the Turkish Mint.
I like taking pictures of doors. Did you all not learn this from my pictures of Greek and Roman doors?
tiled walls in the Istanbul Topkapi Palace: The Topkapi Palace, built in 1459-1465 by Sultan Mehmet II on the old Byzantine acropolis, was the official and primary residence in the city of the Ottoman Sultans during 1465-1856. See McDonagh, Turkey, Blue Guide, 3rd ed., 72; and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topkap%C4%B1_Palace.
Lord Kinross, The Ottoman Centuries. The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1977, p. 298
a fountain in the Istanbul Topkapi Palace: The Topkapi Palace, built in 1459-1465 by Sultan Mehmet II on the old Byzantine acropolis, was the official and primary residence in the city of the Ottoman Sultans during 1465-1856. See McDonagh, Turkey, Blue Guide, 3rd ed., 72; and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topkap%C4%B1_Palace.