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Yangluo Bridge
near
Wuhan
,
China
, is tied with the
Golden Gate Bridge
in
San Francisco
,
United States
, as the ninth
longest suspension bridge in the world
?
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List of longest bridges in the world
the
New Ulyanovsk Bridge
, one of Europe's
longest bridges
, took more than 23 years to complete due to economic difficulties following the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Istanbul
Istanbul
's
Vefa Kilise Mosque
(
pictured
) is an example of a
Byzantine
church since converted into an
Ottoman
mosque?
Baghdad Street
in
Istanbul
was named by
Murad IV
to commemorate his conquest of
Mesopotamia
?
Mike Davis
envisioned making recreational boats available on the
Hudson River
in
New York City
after seeing how boats could be rented in
Istanbul
and rowed on the
Bosporus
?
Süreyya Opera House
in
Istanbul
, built in 1927 as a
musical theater
but used all the time as a cinema, gained its intended status only in 2007 after redevelopment?
SantralIstanbul
, a modern art museum in
Istanbul
,
Turkey
, is located in what was the
first power station
of the
Ottoman Empire
?
Sultanahmet Jail
in
Istanbul
,
Turkey
, which served mostly as a prison reserved for intellectual
dissidents
, is today a
five-star hotel
?
Yakov Bulgakov
,
Catherine II
's
emissary
in
Istanbul
, managed to obtain a plan of the Turkish naval offensive while being imprisoned in
Yedikule
during the
Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792
?
after
World War I
,
Istanbul
was
occupied
by the
Triple Entente
in the
partitioning of the Ottoman Empire
?
despite being a key building of middle
byzantine Architecture
, the
mosque
of
Eski Imaret
(pictured)
is still one among the least studied monuments of
Istanbul
?
in 1983,
Yıldırım Aktuna
, a
neuropsychiatrist
and later a politician, founded
Turkey
’s first
alcohol
and
drug rehabilitation
center at the country's largest psychiatric hospital in
Istanbul
?
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