The Akmerkez mall and Haseki Sultan Complex of mosques are landmarks in which ancient city?
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Akmerkez Akmerkez is a shopping mall located in the Etiler quarter of Beşiktaş district in Istanbul, Turkey. As the country's third shopping mall following Galleria Ataköy and Capitol, it was opened by a joint venture of the Akkök, Tekfen and İstikbal companies on December 18, 1993.
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Haseki Sultan Complex The Haseki Sultan Complex (also Hürrem Sultan Complex) (Turkish: "Haseki Hürrem Sultan Külliyesi" ) is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque complex in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey. It was the first royal project designed by the chief imperial architect Mimar Sinan.
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List of mosques in Istanbul Istanbul, as the capital of the Ottoman Empire since 1453 and the largest city in the Middle East, contains a great number of mosques. In 2007, there were 2,944 active mosques in Istanbul.
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Iranian architecture Iranian architecture or Persian architecture (Persian:مهرازى ایرانی) is the architecture of Iran and parts of the rest of West Asia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Its history dates back to at least 5,000 BCE with characteristic examples distributed over a vast area from Turkey and Iraq to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and from the Caucasus to Zanzibar. Persian buildings vary from peasant huts to tea houses and garden, pavilions to "some of the most majestic structures the world has ever seen". In addition to historic gates, palaces, and mosques, the rapid growth of cities such as the capital, Tehran (Architecture of Tehran) has brought about a wave of demolition and new construction.
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Yivliminare Mosque The Alaaddin Mosque or Yivli Minare Mosque (literally: "Fluted Minaret" Mosque), commonly also called Ulu Mosque (Turkish: "Ulu Cami" , "Grand Mosque") in Antalya is a historical mosque built by the Anatolian Seljuk Sultan Alaaddin Keykubad I. It is part of a külliye (complex of structures) which includes the Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev Medrese, Seljuk and Dervish lodge, and the vaults of Zincirkıran and Nigar Hatun. The mosque is located in Kaleiçi (the old town centre) along Cumhuriyet Caddesi, next to Kalekapısı Meydanı. The mosque's fluted minaret called the Yivli Minare, which is decorated with dark blue tiles, is a landmark and symbol of the city.
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Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Üsküdar) The Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Iskele Mosque, Jetty Mosque, Üsküdar Quay Mosque, Turkish: "Mihrimah Sultan Camii, İskele Camii" ) is an Ottoman mosque located in the historic center of the Üsküdar municipality in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Old City (Hyderabad, India) The Old City, Hyderabad is a walled city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India, located on the banks of the Musi River built by Qutb Shahi sultan Muhammed Quli Qutb Shah in 1591 AD. It remained the royal seat of the Nizam of Hyderabad until the end of the reign of the last Nizam, Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII (r. 1911–1948). Named after Hyder Mahal, wife of the ruler Muhammed Quli Qutb Shah, Hyderabad takes pride in its possession of magnificent antiquated structures, domical mosques, and monuments (r. 1580–1611). Once a vibrant city teeming with palatial mansions of Nawabs and mosques, the old city of Hyderabad today is a little crowded but remains the symbolic heart of cosmopolitan Hyderabad along with HITEC City. The old city of Hyderabad a tourist hot spot, and the heart of Hyderabadi Muslim culture.
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Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum The Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum (Turkish: "" ) is a museum located in Sultanahmet Square in Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey. Constructed in 1524, the building was formerly the palace of Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, who was the second grand vizier to Suleiman the Magnificent, and was once thought to have been the husband of the Sultan's sister, Hatice Sultan.
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Historic Areas of Istanbul The Historic Areas of Istanbul is a group of sites in the capital district of Fatih in the city of Istanbul, Turkey. These areas were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985.
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Bingöl Bingöl (Armenian: Ճապաղջուր "Chapaghjur", Zazaki: "Çewlîg" , Northern Kurdish: "Çewlîg" ) is a city in Eastern Turkey. It is surrounded by mountains and a large number of glacier lakes, hence the name (Turkish for "a thousand lakes"). Lately, the town has become a popular tourist destination. According to 2017 estimates, it has a population of over 111.000 .
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Özkonak Underground City Özkonak Underground City is an ancient city built into the northern slopes of Mt. Idis about 14 km northeast of Avanos in Nevşehir Province, in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey.
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Grand Bazaar, Tehran The Grand Bazaar (Persian: Bāzār e Bozorg – بازار بزرگ‎ ‎ ) is an old historical market in Tehran, the capital of Iran.
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Kolonai Kolonai (Ancient Greek: αἱ Κολωναί  "hai Kolōnai" ) was an ancient Greek city in the south-west of the Troad region of Anatolia. It has been located on a hill by the coast known as Beşiktepe ('cradle hill'), about equidistant between Larisa to the south and Alexandreia Troas to the north. It is 3.3 km east of the modern village of Alemşah in the Ezine district of Çanakkale Province, Turkey. Its name in Ancient Greek is the plural form of κολώνη ("kolōnē"), 'hill, mound', a common name for promontories with hills on them in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is not to be confused with 'Lampsacene' Kolonai, a settlement situated in the hills above Lampsacus in the north-east of the Troad.
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Gargara Gargara (Ancient Greek: Γάργαρα ) was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of the Troad region of Anatolia. It was initially located beneath Mount Gargaron, one of the three peaks of Mount Ida, today known as Koca Kaya ( ). At some point in the 4th century BCE the settlement moved approximately 5.8 km south of Koca Kaya to a site on the small coastal plain near the modern villages of and ( ), at which point the previous site came to be known as Old Gargara (Ancient Greek: Παλαιγάργαρος ). Both sites are located in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale Province in Turkey.
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Sultanahmet Sultanahmet (named after Sultan Ahmed) may refer to these places in Istanbul:
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Karahisar Karahisar (former Karaasar) is a town in Tavas district of Denizli Province, Turkey. It is situated at along the Akçay creek, a tributary of Büyükmenderes River (historical "Maeander"). The distance to Tavas is 10 km . The population of Karahisar was 3403 as of 2012. The settlement was founded in 1530s by Turkmens. The earlier name of the settlement Karaasar probably refers to Kara Fatma, the wife of the tribe. Gülfem one of the concubines of Suleyman I, the Ottoman sultan (also called the Magnificent) commissioned a mosque and a fountain in the settlement. In 1954 the settlement was declared a seat of township.
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Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Edirnekapı) The Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Turkish: 'Mihrimah Sultan Camii' ) is an Ottoman mosque located in the Edirnekapı neighborhood near the Byzantine land walls of Istanbul, Turkey. Located on the peak of the Sixth Hill near the highest point of the city, the mosque is a prominent landmark in Istanbul.
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Yüreğir Cultural Centre Yüreğir Cultural Centre (Turkish: "Yüreğir Kültür Merkezi" ), is a complex in the Yüreğir district of Adana, that is composed of three conference halls. The centre is built in the Seljuk architecture, next to a park in the Kazım Karabekir neighbourhood.
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Niğde Archaeological Museum Niğde Archaeological Museum (Turkish: Niğde Arkeoloji Müzesi ) is located in the centre of the Turkish provincial capital, Niğde between "Dışarı Cami Sokak" and "Öğretmenler Caddesi". It contains objects found at sites in the surrounding area, including the tell of Köşk Höyük and the Graeco-Roman city of Tyana, both in the nearby town of Kemerhisar.
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Kızılliman Kızılliman (literally" Red harbor") is a Mediterranean headland in Turkey known for the ruins of ancient stone quarry "Melenie".
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Sabancı Center Sabancı Center is a complex of skyscrapers which consists of two skyscrapers located close to the Büyükdere Avenue in Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey. The third one is approved. Current tallest skyscraper of that complex is Akbank Tower.
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Karataş, İzmir Karataş (Ottoman Turkish: قره طاش‎ ) is a neighborhood of İzmir, Turkey, within the boundaries of the city's central metropolitan district of Konak. The neighborhood no longer has an official delimitation or status and exists as a notional zone ("semt") that is admitted to stretch along the small cove of the same name ("Karataş Cove (Koyu)") in the Gulf of İzmir. Its area roughly corresponds to the officially delimited quarter ("mahalle") named Turgut Reis. The inhabitants, among whom neighborhood pride is quite developed, also usually declare living in Karataş.