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Beylerbeyi Sarayı

Beylerbeyi Sarayı

Also known as Beylerbeyi Palace

Architect

Sarkis Balyan

Year

1865

Style

Neo-Baroque

Type

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

  1. 1865

    Original construction

    Sarkis Balyan

  2. 1869

    Installation

    Hosted Empress Eugénie of France and later Emperor Franz Joseph among other state visitors during Abdülaziz's reign.

  3. 1912-1918

    Conversion

    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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