Constantinople, around 1479. Detail from giovanni andrea vavassore's map of 1520 (after lost drawings from around 1479), re-edited in 1575 in civitates orbis terrarum by georg braun and franz hogenberg. The two complementary imperial building complexes in mehmed's concept of the renewed constantinople (kostantiniyye) are: the secular complex of the "new seraglio" the religious complex around the "new mosque" (fathi camii). Date: 1575.
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