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		<description><![CDATA[Dolmabahce Palace was introduced to me while I was on the Bosphorus cruise &#8211; on the water,  motoring by this 46000 square foot 19th century gilt-edged retreat from Topkapi &#8211; as the reason why Sultans no longer exist.    The incredible excesses of the last 60 years of the Sultans, at Dolmabahce [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramistbixian.wordpress.com&blog=3899575&post=470&subd=saramistbixian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Topkapi Palace; Sultans, Harems &amp; Empires</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1301, when Osman 1 declared independence from the Byzantine Empire and Constantinople.   In 1422, the Ottomans attacked Constantinople (modern day Istanbul) and in 1453 Sultan Mehmet II (&#8220;the Conqueror&#8221;) entered the city, and began to rebuild it, in the Ottoman image.    In 1478 Topkapi [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramistbixian.wordpress.com&blog=3899575&post=441&subd=saramistbixian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Istanbul</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ve tried several times now to put into words my impressions of Istanbul, and of Turkey.  I can&#8217;t.  Words fail me; the complexity, the color, the tastes and smells and sounds, the humidity, the incredible overwhelming beauty and history of the Islamic and Byzantine cultures &#8212; it&#8217;s overpowering, and intoxicating, and potent.
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