The Historian · Zeynep · Istanbul
Rumeli Fortress
Built in four months to cut the city's grain. Standing in it, you understand the siege was won before it began.
The fortress Mehmed II threw up on the Bosphorus's narrowest point to strangle Constantinople before 1453.
— Zeynep, The Historian
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