Beylerbeyi Palace

The Beylerbeyi Palace (Turkish: Beylerbeyi Sarayi ) is one of the most important palaces in Istanbul. It is located on the Asian side of the city, just north of the first Bosphorus Bridge. Sultan Abdulaziz had the palace built 1861-1865 by the Armenian architect Sarkis Balyan.

Sultan Abdulaziz loved the place because he was a great lover of wild sea. In fact, the northwest wind Poyraz, the further south in the Aegean Meltemi is, with all force arrives here. Together with the Nordstrom of the Bosphorus, the wind prevented the colonization of the Black Sea until it's Jason succeeded with his Argonauts to sail northward (Sage of the Golden Fleece ). Before building here a wooden palace was located, the Sultan Mahmut I was in the 16th century built.

The terraced gardens of the palace were called earlier Istavroz Bahçeleri because here the Emperor Constantine the Great, a large cross was erected to declaim his conversion to Christianity. Istavroz is from the Greek word Stavros ( σταυρός ), "cross", is derived. Not far from the palace, the ruins of a Byzantine church were visible a few decades ago.

The palace was the summer residence for the Sultan and his family. Famous guests were, inter alia, the wife of Napoleon III. , Empress Elisabeth, the King of Montenegro, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Sultan Abdulhamid II, spent his last six years of life here and died in this palace. The Queen Eugenie was overwhelmed by the charm of the palace so that she has for her bedroom in the Tuileries after her return to Paris a copy of her room window in the palace can make.

The Beylerbeyi Palace was the scene for the first World Conference on Women in 1935, organized by Kemal Atatürk.

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• Palace in Istanbul
• Ottoman Palace
• Built in the 1860s