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cient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul. Duration Time:The Basilica Cistern, or Cisterna Basilica, is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul.

entre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a square named Sultanahmet Meydanı (Sultan Ahmet Square) in the Turkish city of Istanbul, with a few fragments of the original structure surviving.

an Ottoman imperial mosque and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Built in AD 537 during the reign of Justinian. It is famous for its large dome. It was the world's largest building and an engineering marvel of its time.

It remains a functioning mosque, while also attracting large numbers of tourist visitors. It was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I.

the world, with 61 covered streets and over 4,000 shops on a total area of 30,700 m², attracting between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily.

In the 15th and 16th centuries it served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans.

Located on both sides of the Bosphorus, the narrow strait between the Black Sea and the Marmara Sea, Istanbul bridges Asia and Europe both physically and culturally. Istanbul's population is estimated to be between 12 and 19 million people, making it also one of the largest cities in Europe and the world.