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Spread by empires over the centuries, which takes place in both Europe and Asia, Istanbul is one of the great metropolises of the world.Established around 1000 BC, the Byzantine Colony grew in the great capital of the Byzantine Empire and after the Ottoman conquest of the city retained its glorious place as the heart of the empire.

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It is said that when the Byzantine emperor Justinian entered the church completed for the first time in 536 AD, he cried: "Glory to God that I was judged by such a work. Solomon, I surpassed you!Tradition claimed that the area around the emperor's throne in the Church was the official center of the world. It was transformed into a mosque, after the Ottoman armies conquered Constantinople, to its subsequent transformation into a twentieth-century museum, Aya Sofya remained one of the most valuable benchmarks in Istanbul.