The Historian · Zeynep · Istanbul
Dolmabahçe Palace
This is the empire spending its last money trying to look European. The debt built into these walls is the story.
The 1856 European-style palace on the Bosphorus where the late Ottoman sultans moved from Topkapı.
— Zeynep, The Historian
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