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18-649: (Redirected from Seven Towers ) Yedi Kule or Yedikule ("Seven Towers" in Turkish) can refer to: Yedikule Fortress in Istanbul, Turkey. Yedikule neighborhood, where the fortress is located, in the district of Fatih in Istanbul, Turkey. Heptapyrgion (Thessaloniki) citadel in Thessaloniki, Greece. Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium in Heraklion, Crete,

36-532: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Yedikule Fortress Built in 1458 on the commission of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II , the seven-tower complex was created by adding three new towers and fully enclosing a section of the ancient Walls of Constantinople , including the two twin towers that originally constituted the triumphal Golden Gate (Turkish: Altınkapı ) built by Roman Emperors Theodosius I and Theodosius II . The fortress came to be known as

54-474: Is popularly nicknamed "Yedi Kule". Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Yedi Kule . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yedi_Kule&oldid=781631373 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

72-611: Is used for cultural festivals. Like its namesake in Jerusalem , a Muslim cemetery now lies in front of the Golden Gate. [REDACTED] Media related to Yedikule Fortress at Wikimedia Commons Ottoman Porte The Sublime Porte , also known as the Ottoman Porte or High Porte ( Ottoman Turkish : باب عالی , romanized :  Bāb-ı Ālī or Babıali ; Turkish pronunciation: [baːbɯˈaːliː] ),

90-494: The Conqueror’s Mosque, appears as the focal point of the fortress courtyard, which also marks the midpoint of the axis of symmetry (Gabriel ). Yedikule Fortress was frequently used as a state prison, and ambassadors of states currently at war with the Ottoman Porte were usually imprisoned within its walls. The fortress also housed prisoners who were victims of palace intrigue and infighting, as well as political opponents of

108-660: The Magnificent sealed an alliance with King Francis I of France in 1536, the French diplomats walked through the monumental gate then known as Bab-ı Ali (now Bâb-ı Hümâyûn ) in order to reach the Vizierate of Constantinople, seat of the Sultan's government. French being the language of diplomacy, the French translation Sublime Porte was soon adopted in most other European languages, including English, to refer not only to

126-623: The actual gate but as a metonymy for the Ottoman Empire. In the 18th century, a new great Italian-styled office building was built just west of Topkapi Palace area, on the other side of Alemdar Caddesi (Alemdar street). This became the location of the Grand Vizier and many ministries. Thereafter, this building, and the monumental gate leading to its courtyards, became known as the Sublime Porte ( Bab-ı Ali ); colloquially it

144-637: The gate leading to it, therefore became known as the "High Gate". This name referred first to a palace in Bursa , Turkey. After the Ottomans had conquered Constantinople , now Istanbul , the gate now known as the Imperial Gate ( Turkish : Bâb-ı Hümâyûn ), leading to the outermost courtyard of the Topkapı Palace , first became known as the "High Gate", or the "Sublime Porte". When Sultan Suleiman

162-405: The home of a formidable royal dungeon that housed notable figures throughout its history, and the associated intrigue captured the public's imagination over the centuries in various legends, stories, and the arts. After the conquest of Constantinople the Sultan gave priority to official construction projects such as Yedikule and his first seraglio, Saray-i Atik. Yedikule, Fortress of Seven Towers,

180-405: The houses of the garrison, forming a separate city quarter. The houses were torn down in the 19th century, and a girls' school was built in their place. The outer gate was re-opened in 1838, and the fort's towers functioned as gunpowder magazines for a while thereafter, until the whole facility was turned over to become a museum in 1895. An open-air theater has been built in more recent years, and

198-539: The imperial court. Among Yedikule's most notable prisoners was the young Sultan Osman II , who was imprisoned and executed there by the Janissaries in 1622. The last Emperor of Trebizond David Megas Komnenos , King Simon I of Kartli , and a number of leading Ottoman pashas were also among those executed there. In 1768, the Russian ambassador Aleksei Mikhailovich Obreskov, and the entire Russian embassy's staff

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216-537: The principal entrance gate to the city. Two towers and two pylons of the former Porta Aurea, the triumphal arch, were inherited from the Byzantine city walls. Three original round towers were added for creating an almost pentagonal plan. When a line is drawn from the midpoint of the former Porta Aurea towards the Ottoman tower in the middle, the axis divides the fortress in two symmetrical parts. A small domed structure,

234-514: The structure was built as a fortress points out the existence of a military outpost in charge of defending the official treasury against hostile attacks. The treasury was later transferred to the inner section of the Topkapı Palace in the sixteenth century and thereafter Seven Towers became the prison of prestigious captives. Yedikule was built on the shores of the Sea of Marmara , at what was formerly

252-597: Was a synecdoche or metaphor used to refer collectively to the central government of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul . The name has its origins in the old practice in which the ruler announced his official decisions and judgements at the gate of his palace. This was the practice in the Byzantine Empire and it was also adopted by Ottoman Turk sultans since Orhan I . The palace of the sultan, or

270-710: Was also known as the Gate of the Pasha ( paşa kapusu ). The building was badly damaged by fire in 1911. Today, the buildings house the Istanbul Governor's Office . "Sublime Porte" was used in the context of diplomacy by Western states, as their diplomats were received at the porte (meaning "gate"). During the Second Constitutional Era of the Empire after 1908 (see Young Turk Revolution ),

288-496: Was erected as the official treasury fort of the Empire around the year 1457 (Özgüven 1996: 95–99). Witnesses described the building as one of the palaces of the Sultan. Each tower of the Yedikule functioned as the storage of precious goods, documents, armoury, coins, and golden and silver ingots. Sultan knew well from his ancestors that protection of the fort was one of the high-priority matters of state (Clavijo 1970: 187–188). That

306-556: Was held in the Yedikule as late as 1837. Except for the initial 11 and last 4 sentences, all of the 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Ivo Andrić 's novel Prokleta avlija (translated into English as Accursed and/or Damned Yard ) happens in Yedikule Prison (link on the Andrić Foundation site) . A mescit (small mosque) and a fountain were built in the middle of the fort's inner courtyard, which also contained

324-625: Was imprisoned here, marking the Ottomans’ declaration of war on Russia. During the Napoleonic Wars , the fortress was the prison of many French prisoners, including the writer and diplomat François Pouqueville , who was detained there for more than two years (1799 to 1801) and who gave an extensive description of the fortress in his Voyage en Morée, à Constantinople, en Albanie, et dans plusieurs autres parties de l'Empire Othoman, pendant les années 1798, 1799, 1800 et 1801 . The last prisoner

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