Yedikule Istanbul Turkey The Walls Constantinople Roman Empire Constantine the Great

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The castle of KonstantinosVII Porphyrogennetos (Tekful Saray or Tekfursarayi). The Palace of the Porphyrogenitus in Turkish as the Tekfur Sarayı 13th-century Byzantine palace in the north-western part of the old city of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul,Turkey). An annex of the greater palace complex of Blachernae, it is the only Byzantine palace to survive in the city, and one of the few relatively intact examples of late Byzantine secular architecture in the world.

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