Anadoluhisarı
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Anadoluhisarı (), known historically as Güzelce Hisar ("the Beauteous Fortress") is a medieval Ottoman fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey on the Anatolian (Asian) side of the Bosporus. The complex is the oldest surviving Turkish architectural structure built in Istanbul, and further gives its name to the neighborhood around it in the city's Beykoz district.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Anadoluhisarı is referenced by 326 other articles, and connects out to Turkey, Bosporus Strait and Fall of Constantinople.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including 1390s establishments in the Ottoman Empire, 1394 establishments in Asia and 14th-century fortifications.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Military installation.name
- Anadoluhisarı
- Military installation.location
- Anadoluhisarı, Istanbul, Turkey
- Military installation.image
- Anadolu Hisarı in 2024 (cropped).jpg
- Military installation.image_size
- 300px
- Military installation.caption
- Anadoluhisarı as seen from the Bosphorus
- Military installation.pushpin_map
- Turkey Istanbul
- Military installation.pushpin_mapsize
- 300px
- Military installation.type
- Fortress
- Military installation.built
- 1394
- Military installation.builder
- Bayezid I
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- museum
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Beykoz
- Founded by
- Bayezid I
- Image
- Anadolu Hisarı in 2024 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 25
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- time of earliest written record
- 1393-00-00
- inventory number
- 49585
- Commons category
- Anadolu Hisarı
- inception
- 1393-00-00
- commissioned by
- Bayezid I
- architectural style
- Ottoman architecture
- located in/on physical feature
- Marmara Region
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Encyclopedic overview
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Anadoluhisarı (), known historically as Güzelce Hisar ("the Beauteous Fortress") is a medieval Ottoman fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey on the Anatolian (Asian) side of the Bosporus. The complex is the oldest surviving Turkish architectural structure built in Istanbul, and further gives its name to the neighborhood around it in the city's Beykoz district.
==History== Anadoluhisarı was built between 1393 and 1394 on the commission of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, as part of his preparations for a siege of the then-Byzantine city of Constantinople.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anadoluhisarı” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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3 mapped locations