At first glance, the salmon-coloured building of Zincirli Han inside Istanbul’s Grand ... Istanbul’s covered market in 1455 (what has become today's Grand Bazaar), the Ottoman rulers and ...

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The waiting room of Istanbul’s Sirkeci ... food of an area around the Grand Bazaar, which is dotted with little “hans” or arcades that first appeared in 1455 during the Ottoman period.