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does any one know this place ?
1.       yusuf :)
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 10 Apr 2006 Mon 09:20 am

its a aplace in istunboul in which the ottmans kings used to live in ,i think its now musium, and also i think if we translate its name in in eglish i will be ( the high door)
please if any one know this place original name help me and i f u have information on it it will be great cause i want visit it in my next visit to ist.

2.       damla
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 10 Apr 2006 Mon 09:36 am

Quoting yusuf :

its a aplace in istunboul in which the ottmans kings used to live in ,i think its now musium, and also i think if we translate its name in in eglish i will be ( the high door)
please if any one know this place original name help me and i f u have information on it it will be great cause i want visit it in my next visit to ist.


Do you want to mean Topkapı Sarayı.You can look this pages.

http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/topkapi.html

http://www.istanbul.net.tr/istanbul_muzeler_detay.asp?id=98

3.       AlphaF
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 10 Apr 2006 Mon 10:37 am

"High door" suggests "Bab-ı Ali"

"Bab-ı Ali" is not a palace. You can think of it as the offices of the Ottoman Grand Vezier (something like today's priminister)

4.       damla
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 10 Apr 2006 Mon 05:41 pm

Quoting AlphaF:

"High door" suggests "Bab-ı Ali"

"Bab-ı Ali" is not a palace. You can think of it as the offices of the Ottoman Grand Vezier (something like today's priminister)



Bab-ı Ali means High door,it was a place Divan's people meet.In Turkish it is called kubbe altı.It is in the Topkapı saray.

5.       AlphaF
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 10 Apr 2006 Mon 07:48 pm

Quoting damla:

Quoting AlphaF:

"High door" suggests "Bab-ı Ali"

"Bab-ı Ali" is not a palace. You can think of it as the offices of the Ottoman Grand Vezier (something like today's priminister)



Bab-ı Ali means High door,it was a place Divan's people meet.In Turkish it is called kubbe altı.It is in the Topkapı saray.



Kubbealtı is a meeting room within Topkapı Palace, where Divan used to meet in Sultan's presence. This is correct.

Bab-ı Ali however, is an actual high door which leads into the area that housed offices of the Ottoman high state officals (this huge door is still in existence); very close to the palace, but not within the premises. The area was also called Bab-ı Ali; an obvious reference to the big door that led to it.

Today the same area houses İstanbul Defterdarlığı (of Ministry of Finance) and offices of the Governor of İstanbul.

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