Yedikule Hisarı
Also known as Golden Gate, Altın Kapı
390
Byzantine
building
The Golden Gate was the ceremonial entrance to Constantinople, a triumphal arch of white marble set into the Theodosian land walls around the turn of the fifth century, through which victorious emperors rode into the city. Its three…
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- 1458
Mehmed II enclosed the Byzantine Golden Gate within a new seven-towered Ottoman fortress used as a treasury and prison.
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