Beylerbeyi Palace - Bosphorus
by Christiane Schulze Art And Photography
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Beylerbeyi Palace - Bosphorus
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Christiane Schulze Art And Photography
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Photograph - Photography - Digital Photography
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The Beylerbeyi Palace is located in the Beylerbeyi neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey at the Asian side of the Bosphorus. An Imperial Ottoman summer residence built in the 1860s, it is now situated immediately north of the 1973 Bosphorus Bridge.
Beylerbeyi Palace was commissioned by Sultan Abduelaziz (1830-1876) and built between 1861 and 1865 as a summer residence and a place to entertain visiting heads of state. Empress Eugenie of France visited Beylerbeyi on her way to the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and had her face slapped by the sultan's mother for daring to enter the palace on the arm of Abduelaziz. (Despite her initial reception, Empress Eugenie of France was so delighted by the elegance of the palace that she had a copy of the window in the guest room made for her bedroom in Tuileries Palace, in Paris.) Other regal visitors to the palace included the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
The palace was the last place of captivity of the deposed sultan Abdulhamid II from 1912 until his death there in 1918.
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January 1st, 2013
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