The Historian · Zeynep · Istanbul
Grand Bazaar
Under the trinket lanes is a 15th-century financial engine. I ignore the souvenirs and read the old stone core.
A covered market begun in the 1450s under Mehmed II — sixty streets, thousands of shops, a walled Ottoman economy.
— Zeynep, The Historian
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