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The Hagia Sophia viewed from my hotel room in the morning
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The streets of the old quarter in Istanbul
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The streets of the old quarter in Istanbul just around the corner from my hotel
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The Hippodrome - the Obelisk of Thutmose III bought from Karnack, Egypt in 390AD by Theodosius the Great; originally built 1490BC
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Hagia Sophia - from the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral
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Hagia Sophia - except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral
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Hagia Sophia - and later it was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931
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Hagia Sophia - today it is secularised and converted into a museum
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Hagia Sophia - it is a massive and most impressive building
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Hagia Sophia - its dimensions are stunning
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Hagia Sophia - internally, it is difficult to grasp the sheer size of it
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Hagia Sophia
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Hagia Sophia - frescoes adourn the walls and dome ceilings
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Hagia Sophia - frescoes adourn the walls and dome ceilings
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Hagia Sophia - marble pillars
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Hagia Sophia
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The Blue Mosque seen from the Hagia Sophia
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Hagia Sophia viewed from a short distance
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The many different flavours and colours of Turkish Delight
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Taksim Square - the protesters seen here were none too gently removed and 'placed' into police vans a few minutes after this photo weas taken
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walking from Taxsim Square along Independence Avenue, a long pedestrian shopping street
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walking from Taxsim Square along Independence Avenue, a long pedestrian shopping street
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The Bosporus
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The Bosporus
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fishing from the Galata Bridge on the Golden Horn
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a fish sandwich on the Bosporus
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looking back toward the The Galata Bridge
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a Guiness in Istanbul; at $15 a pint, its rather expensive
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Sultan Ahmed Mosque, more commonlyknown as the Blue Mosque - built from 1609 to 1616, during the rule of Ahmed I
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The Blue Mosque - a most impressive building
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The Blue Mosque - a most impressive building
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The Blue Mosque - a most impressive building
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The Blue Mosque - a most impressive building
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The Hagia Sophia viewed from my hotel room in the afternoon
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inside a beautiful mosque
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inside a beautiful mosque
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The Suleymaniye Mosque - built from 1550 to 1558
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The Suleymaniye Mosque - built on the order of on the order of Sultan Süleyman
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The Suleymaniye Mosque - another impressibe building
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The Suleymaniye Mosque - the incisde of the mosque is wonderfully colourful
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The Suleymaniye Mosque - the incisde of the mosque is wonderfully colourful
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The Suleymaniye Mosque - the incisde of the mosque is wonderfully colourful
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The Suleymaniye Mosque - the incisde of the mosque is wonderfully colourful
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The Suleymaniye Mosque
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The Suleymaniye Mosque
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The Suleymaniye Mosque
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