Rumeli Fortress
Also known as Rumeli Hisarı
1452
fortification
Mehmed II built this fortress in just four months in 1452, a year before the conquest of Constantinople, on the European shore of the Bosphorus at its narrowest point (directly opposite the Anadolu Hisarı fortress on the Asian shore).…
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