
Beylerbeyi Sarayı
Also known as Beylerbeyi Palace
1865
Neo-Baroque
palace
Beylerbeyi Palace stands on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus in Üsküdar, a summer residence that Sultan Abdülaziz commissioned after the older wooden waterfront palace on the same site burned in the 1850s. Sarkis Balyan and his brother…
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Timeline
- 1865
Sarkis Balyan
- 1869
Hosted Empress Eugénie of France and later Emperor Franz Joseph among other state visitors during Abdülaziz's reign.
- 1912-1918
Sultan Abdülhamid II spent his final six years confined here after his 1909 deposition and died in the palace in 1918.
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