Yedikule

The Seven Towers Castle (1827)

Yedikule

Yedikule , the "Castle of the Seven Towers", is located directly on the Theodosian Land Wall ( Turkish Teodos II. Suru ). It is part of an approximately 20 kilometer long fortification in Istanbul that was built under Emperor Theodosius II at the beginning of the 5th century .

The facility is located directly on the wall. It is partly Byzantine and partly Ottoman in origin. Their towers are connected to each other by thick walls. It served the Ottomans as a dungeon, treasury and place of execution. The most famous execution victims of Yedikule were the eighteen-year-old Sultan Osman II , who was strangled in one of the towers on May 20, 1622 , and the last emperor of Trebizond , David Komnenos .

literature

• Leslie Brubaker: Topography and public space in Constantinople . In: Mayke de Jong, Francis Theuws (Ed.): Topographies of power in the early Middle Ages. Brill, Leiden 2001 ( Transformation of the Roman World Vol. 6), ISSN  1386-4165 .

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Coordinates: 40 ° 59 ′ 35 ″  N , 28 ° 55 ′ 24 ″  E